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The Weekend Round-up
Action-adventure Everest opened in the top spot with £3.2m, which included £658k in previews from IMAX and large format showings. It’s Friday to Sunday total of £2.5m, was just £55k more than Legend’s. In terms of the director, Baltasar Kormakur, it’s the biggest opening for any of his films in the UK, easily eclipsing the £1.4m 2 Guns kicked off with in 2013.
Legend had another strong weekend, falling just 34% (once previews are removed) to £2.4m, for a terrific cume of £10m. It joins the likes of Fifty Shades Of Grey, Wolf Of Wall Street and Gone Girl on the growing list of recent 18-cert films that have proved a hit with UK cinemagoers.
Maze Runner: Scorch Trials fell to third, adding £1.5m for a solid cume of £5.2m. On its second weekend last year, The Maze Runner also added £1.5m and was on £4.4m, although that is from one fewer day in cinemas.
The Visit had a solid hold for a horror film, falling 41% (once previews are removed) to £485k, and has now grossed £2m.
Inside Out completed the top five, adding £437k for a huge cume of £37.4m. It will shortly overtake Finding Nemo (£37.5m) and Monsters, Inc. (£37.9m) to become Pixar’s third highest grossing film, behind Toy Story 2 and Toy Story 3.
Outside of the top five, Bill Bryson adaptation, A Walk In The Woods, opened in eighth with £252k (including £7k from previews) and Bill, from the team behind Horrible Histories, opened in tenth with £222k (which includes £4k from previews).
Overall, the box office was down 18% from last weekend (although that was heavily boosted by previews) and up 37% from the same weekend last year, when the top four films were The Boxtrolls, A Walk Among The Tombstones, Pride and Lucy.
Next Weekend
Miss You Already is a genuine tear-jerker, starring Toni Collette and Drew Barrymore, about two best friends whose friendship is put to the test when one of them falls seriously ill.
Solace is a thriller starring Colin Farrell, Abbie Cornish and Anthony Hopkins about a psychic who works with the FBI in order to hunt down a serial killer.
Life stars Dane Dehaan as James Dean and Robert Pattinson as the photographer from Life Magazine sent to photograph him.
The Buzz
Pan had its world premiere in Leicester Square yesterday and the first reviews are now online. Robbie Collin in The Telegraph gave the film four stars, calling it ‘wonderfully old-fashioned’. It’s out in the UK on 16 October and previews on 10/11 October.
Across The Pond
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials opened in the top spot with $30.3m, which is slightly down on the $32.5m the first film opened with almost exactly a year ago. Johnny Depp crime drama, Black Mass, opened in second with $22.6m. The Visit fell 55% to $11.6m in third and has now grossed an impressive $42.6m. Last week’s number one, The Perfect Guy, fell to fourth, adding $9.8m for a cume of $41.5m. Everest completed the top five, opening exclusively on IMAX and premium large format screens before going wide next weekend, and delivering $7.2m.
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