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The Weekend Round-up
London Has Fallen has finally knocked Deadpool from the top of the box office, as it opened with an impressive £3.2m, which included £511k from Thursday previews. That’s a big improvement on the £2.2m Olympus Has Fallen kicked off its run with in April 2013, and that included an extra day’s preview.
The Coen brothers’ Hail, Caesar! kicked off its run with £1.5m, which included £80k from previews, which is their third best Friday to Sunday opening of all time. Their highest grossing film in the UK is True Grit with £8.4m, so Hail, Caesar! will have to go some to top that.
After three weeks in the top spot, Deadpool dropped to third but still added another £1.5m for a huge cume of £34.1m. It’s now the sixth biggest superhero film of all time in the UK and still has a chance of overtaking Iron Man 3 (£37m) in fifth.
Last week's highest new entry, Grimsby, added £806k in fourth and has now grossed £3.6m.
Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Road Chip completed the top five after adding £538k for a new cume of £15.3m.
Outside of the top five, last weekend’s big winners at the Oscars had decent weekends. The Revenant fell a shallow 22% to £339k in seventh, and has now grossed £22.5m, while Best Picture winner, Spotlight, increased by a chunky 70% to £333k in eighth and as now grossed £5.4m.
Two new entries landed in the lower reaches of the top 15, after failing to make much of a dent with audiences. Horror The Other Side Of The Door opened in tenth with £263k (including £2k from previews) and Nicholas Sparks adaptation, The Choice, opened in thirteenth with £140k.
Overall the box office was down 2% from last weekend and up 11% from the same weekend last year when the top four films were The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Focus, Fifty Shades Of Grey and Chappie.
Next Weekend
The Divergent Series: Allegiant is out on Thursday and is the third film in the popular young-adult series and takes Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James) into a new world, far more dangerous than ever before. The last instalment grossed £8m at the UK box office, so that will be the target for this one.
Kung Fu Panda 3 goes nationwide on Friday and sees Po (Jack Black) face two hugely epic, but different threats: one supernatural and the other a little closer to his home. Kung Fu Panda 2 banked £17m in the UK. According to DCM’s Zoe Jones who attended the premiere, it was ‘pandamonium’ and the film is ‘amazing and the best of the three’.
The Witch is one of the most acclaimed horror films of the last couple of years and is about a family in 1630s New England that is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic and possession.
Fifty Shades Of Black is a parody film of Fifty Shades Of Grey. Marlon Wayans stars as the wealthy businessman with unconventional tastes.
Anomalisa is the Oscar-nominated animation from Charlie Kaufman (writer of Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind). David Thewlis voices Michael, a man crippled by the mundanity of his life, who experiences something out of the ordinary while on a business trip. It’s sensational.
The Buzz
Tina Fey stars in Whiskey Tango Foxtrot as a journalist who recounts her time on the ground during the war in Afghanistan. Directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (Focus, Crazy Stupid Love) it opened in the US at the weekend with a modest $7.6m and reviews have varied wildly, with Time calling it ‘boldly entertaining’ and Screen International saying it has a ‘story that gets more predictable as it rolls along’. It opens in the UK on 22 April.
Across The Pond
Zootopia (Zootropolis in the UK) opened with $75m, which is Disney Animation’s biggest opening of all time and the ninth largest animated opening ever. London Has Fallen opened in second with $21.6m. Deadpool became only the third R-rated movie to ever gross over $300m, as it added $16.7m for a new total of $311.5m Whiskey Tango Foxtrot opened in fourth with $7.4m and Gods Of Egypt completed the top five, adding $5m for $23m.
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