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The Weekend Round-up
- The most exciting blockbuster of the summer, Mission: Impossible - Fallout crashed into the top spot with £7.2m. That figure includes £1.7m from previews after opening on Wednesday. The last Mission: Impossible film, 2015’s Rogue Nation, opened with £5.4m, which includes £1m from one day of previews, so Fallout’s three-day Friday to Sunday total is an improvement. Word of mouth should be amazing on this title so expect it to hold up well over the coming weeks.
- Last weekend’s top film, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again was once again the top film from Friday to Sunday with £7m, but was pipped to the top spot by the addition of Mission: Impossible’s previews. The ABBA funfest has now banked £27m and after just ten days in cinemas is the seventh biggest film released this year. With a drop of just 27% this weekend it will climb at least a few places higher before the end of its run.
- Incredibles 2 continued its sensational run, falling just 25% on its third weekend to £5.1m. That takes its total to £33.2m and it has now surpassed the gross of The Incredibles (£32.3m). It’s now the fifth biggest film released in 2018 and it must be aiming to reach Black Panther’s final total of £50.6m, which is currently the second biggest film of 2018.
- On a very strong weekend, Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation opened in fourth with £3.4m. The last Hotel Transylvania film opened in October with £6.3m, which included a hefty £3.5m from previews, so the Friday to Sunday total of A Monster Vacation is the biggest for the series yet. Hotel Transylvania 2 finished on £20.7m and with most of the school holidays still to come, A Monster Vacation will be looking at a total similar to that.
- Event cinema came back into the top ten, with Andre Rieu’s always popular Maastricht Concert completing this weekend’s top five with £1.5m. Last year the concert grossed £1.4m, so this year’s iteration has improved upon that.
- Outside of the top five, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom in sixth has now crossed the £40m mark, while The First Purge in eighth has become the highest grossing film of the series with £5.1m.
Overall, the box office was up 30% from last weekend and up 25% from the same weekend last year, when the top films were Dunkirk, Captain Underpants, Despicable Me 3 and War For The Planet Of The Apes.
Next Weekend
- Ant-Man And The Wasp is the latest action-blockbuster from Marvel. Paul Rudd returns as Scott Lang, who balances being both a superhero and a father, while Hope van Dyne and Dr. Hank Pym present an urgent new mission that finds the Ant-Man fighting alongside The Wasp to uncover secrets from their past.
- Teen Titans Go! To The Movies is an animated comedy featuring some of the world’s most famous superheroes. A villain's maniacal plan for world domination side-tracks five teenage superheroes who dream of Hollywood stardom.
The Buzz
The Meg is the Jason Statham vs. giant shark movie we’ve all been waiting for. The film has had its premiere in the US and the first responses are in and apparently it delivers. Germain Lussier of io9 and Gizmodo said ‘I LOVED The Meg. It is exactly the bonkers, snowball of excess, wild, dumb, fun movie you are hoping for.’ For more glowing responses, go here: https://www.slashfilm.com/the-meg-early-buzz/. It’s in cinemas on 10 August and is the next DCM Film Club film.
Across The Pond
Mission: Impossible - Fallout opened in the top spot with $61.2m, the best opening for the series. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again fell 57% to $15.1m, which takes its total to $70.5m. Last week’s top film, The Equalizer 2 fell 61% to $14m in third and that takes its total to $64.3m. Hotel Transylvania 3 came in fourth, adding $12.3m, for a new cume of $119.2m and Teen Titans Go! To The Movies completed the top five, opening with $10.4m.