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The Weekend Round-up
Deadpool continued its remarkable performance, topping the box office for the third straight weekend, after adding £3m for a new cume of £31.2m. It's still behind Star Wars: The Force Awakens (£35.5m) in the list of highest grossing films of 2016, but it will overtake it before the end of its run.
Grimsby was the highest new entry in second with £1.9m, which included £441k from previews. That's the lowest opening for a film with Sacha Baron Cohen in the lead, with his last film, The Dictator, opening with £5m (including £1.5m from previews) in 2012.
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip fell to third, but added another £1.2m for a new total of £14.7m.
Last week's highest new entry, How To Be Single, added £954k in fourth and has now grossed a healthy £3.7m.
Goosebumps completed the top five after adding £499k for a new cume of £8.2m.
Outside of the top five, a couple of new entries failed to make much of a splash, with Natalie Dormer starring horror, The Forest, opening in sixth with £448k (including £3k from previews), and starry remake, Secret In Their Eyes opening in fifteenth with £117k.
The Oscars Best Picture winner, Spotlight, added £191k in eleventh and is now up to £4.8m, but it will be interesting to see what boost it experiences over the next week.
Overall the box office was down 41 % from last weekend and down % from the same weekend last year when the top four films were The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Fifty Shades Of Grey, Focus and Big Hero 6.
Next Weekend
London Has Fallen is the sequel to surprise success, Olympus Has Fallen. It once again stars Aaron Eckhart as the US president and Gerard Butler as his loyal bodyguard. This time around, they're on a visit to London as it's attacked by terrorists.
Hail, Caesar! is the latest all-star comedy from the Coen brothers (Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Inside Llewyn Davis). Josh Brolin stars as a Hollywood fixer in the 1950s, who is called in to action when the studio's big star (George Clooney) is kidnapped by a mysterious organisation.
The Other Side Of The Door is a horror about a grieving mother who learns of an ancient ritual that will bring her son back to say a final goodbye. She travels to an ancient temple, where a door serves as a mysterious portal between two worlds. But when she disobeys a sacred warning to never open that door, she upsets the balance between life and death.
The Choice is the latest adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks novel, after The Notebook, Dear John and The Lucky One. Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbours in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.
The Buzz
Eddie The Eagle opened in the US over the weekend, and while its opening weekend of just under $7m is relatively modest, it is much more likely to gain traction with UK audiences who are more familiar with Eddie Edwards and his exploits. Empire have just filed their review, saying ‘Eddie The Eagle turns a long-running joke of British sport into a crowd-pleasing story of inspiration. It’s a solid gold winner.’ Interestingly, the audience breakdown in the US was an even split between male and female, and 75% over the age of 25. It opens in the UK on Easter Monday, 28 March.
Across The Pond
Deadpool again came out on top, falling 45% to $31.1m, for a huge cume of $285.2m. It's now the third highest grossing R-rated film of all time. Gods of Egypt opened in second with $14.1m and Kung Fu Panda added $8.9m in third, for a new cume of $128.4m. Risen added $7m in fourth, for a new total of $22.5m and Eddie The Eagle completed the top five, opening with $6.1m.
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