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The Weekend Round-up
- Your Grandma’s film of the year is not doing too Downton shabby, retaining its No.1 position with a drop of only 38% down from its opening weekend; it adds £3.2m for a total of £13.1m. Its current total makes it the fourth-highest grossing drama release of 2019 so far.
- If you are making a list of films which have reached the second spot on the UK box office in 2019 you can Ad Astra, with sad Brad in space grossing £1.6m over the three-day weekend, with a total of £2.2m including previews. Its Friday-Sunday opening is slightly behind the opening of similar genre title, First Man(£2.3m) in October last year which went on to achieve a lifetime of £7.8m.
- It: Chapter Two is at No.3, continuing to hold well in its third week; and already the highest-grossing horror so far this year. The title added a further £1.3m to a running total of £16.1m, and you’d be pennywise to presume it will continue to run as the nights draw in.
- Hustlers slid down the box office pole to land at fourth place, dropping 22% to take its lifetime total to £3.3m
- Five is the key number for Rambo: Last Blood, being its number in the Rambo franchise and its position at the UK box office. Home Stallone grossed £1m in its opening weekend. The franchise’s previous film in 2008, Rambo opened with £1.2m (excl. previews) and went on to deliver a lifetime total of £3.1m.
- Outside of the top five, Once Upon A Time...In Hollywood continues its pattern of strong holds, at No.8 in the chart this week. It has grossed a further £272k for a lifetime total of £20.4m, making it the ninth title to cross this milestone in 2019.
- The overall box office is down 17% from last weekend, ranking 46th out of the latest 52 weekends. It’s down 5% versus the same weekend last year when The House With A Clock In Its Walls was No.1 in the chart, generating £2.2m.
Next Weekend
- Ready or Not follows a young bride as she joins her new husband's rich, eccentric family in a time-honoured tradition that turns into a lethal game with everyone fighting for their survival.
- The Goldfinch adapts Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Theodore "Theo" Decker was 13 years old when his mother was killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The tragedy changes the course of his life, sending him on a stirring odyssey of grief and guilt, reinvention and redemption, and even love.
The Buzz
- A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood stars Tom Hanks as beloved US children’s TV host Mr Rogers, and is Marielle Heller’s (Can You Every Forgive Me?) latest potential awards contender. The film has received significant buzz coming out of the Toronto International Film Festival, with Peter Howell writing in the Toronto Star ‘Tom Hanks fits the red sweater like he was born in it, but Marielle Heller's unique take on Fred Rogers' magnetism exceeds impersonation.’ A.A. Dowd adds to this in the AV Club, writing ‘Heller, fresh off the sharp Can You Ever Forgive Me?, is the one mediating their communion, steering it away from schmaltz and into more honest and ...Rogersian sentiment.’ A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is released in UK cinemas on 6 December.
Across The Pond
Downton Abbey topped the box office in its first weekend across the pond with $31m, with Ad Astra opening in second place with $19.21. Rambo: Last Blood was the third new entry at the US box office, opening with $19m. It: Chapter Two dropped three places to fourth spot and is now on $179m, with the top five completed by Hustlers, which is now on $62.5m