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The Weekend Round-up
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them became the first film since Star Wars: The Force Awakens to hold the top spot for four consecutive weeks. It added £2.7m, which brings its total to an impressive £42.3m. That makes it the fourth biggest film of 2016 to date, just behind Finding Dory (£42.8m).
Moana had a great hold in second, falling just 14% to £1.9m. That makes its 10-day total £4.8m, and it will still be looking at the Christmas period to be its most productive time.
Sully: Miracle On the Hudson also had a strong hold, falling 32% to £1.2m in third. After 10 days on release, the Clint Eastwood true-life drama has banked £4.3m.
Office Christmas Party was the highest new entry in fourth, opening with £1.2m, which included £288k from previews, after opening on Wednesday.
Allied completed the top five, adding £364k for a new cume of £3.6m.
Outside of the top five, a couple of former awards hopefuls opened this weekend and struggled. Oliver Stone’s Snowden, managed £209k in eighth (including £68k from previews), and The Birth of a Nation could only manage £135k in 13th.
Overall the box office was down 23% from last weekend and up 44% from the same weekend last year, when the top four films were The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, The Good Dinosaur, SPECTRE and Bridge of Spies.
Next Weekend
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is finally in cinemas on Thursday and is set to be the biggest film of the year. Felicity Jones stars as Jyn Erso, who leads a rebel team who make a risky move to steal the plans for the Death Star, setting up the epic saga to follow. The premiere took place in LA on Saturday night and the responses on Twitter have been overwhelmingly positive (full details here). If you’re not already, it’s time to get excited.
The Buzz
La La Land opened in limited release in the US on Friday, and brought in $855k from just five screens, for a $171k screen average. That’s the tenth-largest opening per screen average of all-time and the third largest for a live-action film. It also leads the nominations for the Golden Globes, which were announced this afternoon, with seven. It opens in the UK on Thursday 12 January.
Across The Pond
Moana finished in top spot for the third weekend in a row, adding $18.5m for a new cume of $144.7m. Office Christmas Party was the highest new entry, opening in second with $16.9m and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them added $10.4m in third, which brings its total to $199m. Internationally, the film brought in an estimated $33.1m from 67 territories, bringing its international cume to $480.7m and a worldwide total that tops $680m. Arrival had a strong hold in fourth, adding $5.6m for a new cume of $81.5m, and Doctor Strange completed the top five, with $4.5m bringing its total to $222.3m.