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The Weekend Round-up – Fast & Furious 7 stays out in front
Fast & Furious 7 came out on top for the third straight week, a feat only The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has managed this year. Fast & Furious 7 added £3m and crossed the £30m mark in the process. It now sits on £32m and is closing in on Fifty Shades Of Grey’s 2015 high of £34.8m.
For the third straight weekend, Cinderella came second but still added another £1.1m and has now grossed a strong £17.4m.
Home crossed the £20m mark in third, after adding £854k. Its current total of £20.2m makes it the top performing family film of 2015 to date, overtaking Big Hero 6’s £20m.
The highest new entry was Child 44 in fourth, but £506k is a disappointing start for the star-studded thriller.
Woman In Gold completed the top five, falling just 25% to £372k and after ten days in cinemas has grossed £1.3m. Last week it performed more strongly during the week, and we expect it to do so this week too.
On a quiet weekend before one of the year’s biggest films, The Avengers: Age Of Ultron, opens the box office was down 37% from last weekend and down 45% from the same weekend last year, when the biggest films were The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Rio 2, Noah and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Next Weekend
Next weekend is all about The Avengers: Age Of Ultron. It opens on Thursday and is all set to be the biggest film of the year to date. If it performs as well as Avengers Assemble, we’ll have our first £50m+ film since 2012. Either way, expect the biggest opening weekend of the year so far and in the US they’re predicting it to deliver the biggest opening weekend of all time. DCM’s Eray Galip was lucky enough to see it on Monday evening and said it’s ‘a perfect sequel filled with action, humour and beautifully sets up Marvels Phase 3’.
Reese Witherspoon stars in inspirational tale, The Good Lie. It opened in the US in October and a lifetime gross of $2.7m suggests we should keep our expectations low.
The Buzz
Low budget horror Unfriended opens in the UK on 1 May and it has already proved a success in the US, where it opened on Friday (see below). It has a score of 60 on Metacritic, which is good for a horror film and it has received some strong reviews from respected publications. The A.V. Club said ‘the filmmakers here completely commit to their gimmick, turning its limitations into benefits and exploiting the chosen technology for maximum effect’ and The Village Voice state ‘director Levan Gabriadze is adept at the sinking something's not right creepiness too few horror films dig into. His techniques are certain to be copy-pasted by imitators.’
Across The Pond
Furious 7 held on to the top spot, falling 51% to $29.2m and to date has grossed $294.5m. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 opened with $23.8m, which was enough to take second spot. Horror film Unfriended took third, kicking off with $15.8m, which is an impressive result for a film with a reported budget of $1m. The audience was 74% under 25. Home was in fourth, falling 43% to $10.6m and to date has grossed $142.9m. The Longest Ride completed the top five with $7m for a cume of $23.7m.
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