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The Weekend Round-up
This weekend’s new entries failed to conquer Everest, as the action-adventure fell just 20% (once previews are removed) to £2m. It has now banked a very respectable £6.8m and now has a solid base-camp to make an assault on the £10m mark.
Legend had another strong weekend, falling just 26% to £1.8m, and now has a terrific cume of £13.2m. It is now the twelfth highest grossing 18-certificate film of all time and should climb a few places higher before the end of its run.
Maze Runner: Scorch Trials stayed in third, and like Everest and Legend, it too had a great hold, falling 24% to £1.2m for a cume of £6.9m. There’s now a good chance that it can overtake the first film’s final total of £8.9m.
Miss You Already was the highest new entry in fourth, kicking off its run with £487k (including £19k from previews).
Inside Out completed the top five, falling a paltry 3% to £423k for a huge cume of £37.9m. It has now overtaken Finding Nemo (£37.5m) and lies just £5k behind Monsters, Inc. (£37.9m) in the list of Pixar’s biggest films.
Outside of the top five, Colin Farrell and Anthony Hopkins thriller, Solace, opened in sixth with £341k and Straight Outta Compton crossed the £8m mark in eleventh.
Overall, the box office was down 22% from last weekend and down 13% from the same weekend last year, when the top four spots were taken by Billy Elliot The Musical Live, The Equalizer, The Boxtrolls and What We Did On Our Holiday.
Next Weekend
The Martian opens on Wednesday. Reportedly Ridley Scott’s best film in years, it stars Matt Damon as a man stranded on Mars who has to find a way of contacting earth to get home.
Macbeth stars Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard and has been getting great reviews, including five stars in both Empire and The Telegraph.
The Intern is the latest gentle comedy from Nancy Meyers (What Women Want, It’s Complicated, The Holiday) and stars Robert De Niro who takes a job as an intern at Anne Hathaway’s fashion website. It had a solid opening in the US this past weekend, kicking off with $18.2m.
The Walk is released on IMAX and premium large format screens, similar to Everest’s strategy for its opening week. It premiered at the New York Film Festival at the weekend to mostly positive reviews, although US critics seem to have been more into it than UK ones.
The Buzz
The Danish Girl recently had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. It currently has a score of 65 on Metacritic, with Variety saying ‘there’s no denying that [director, Tom] Hooper and screenwriter Lucinda Coxon have delivered a cinematic landmark’, while The Guardian gave it two stars, saying it’s a ‘determinedly mainstream melodrama that doesn’t really offer new perspectives on its theme’. Every review praised Eddie Redmayne’s performance and he’s emerging again as a strong contender for acting awards next year.
Across The Pond
Hotel Transylvania 2 had a great opening weekend, kicking off with $48.4m, which is the biggest ever September opening. The Intern opened in second with a solid $17.7m and The Maze Runner had a steep drop to $14.2m in third and a cume of $52m. After its limited opening last week, Everest went wide and delivered a mildly disappointing $13.2m, for a cume of $23.3m. Black Mass completed the top five with $11m for a ten day total of $42.1m.
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