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Box Office Round-up
Fast X raced to the top spot with £5.9m, the fourth biggest opening weekend of the year so far. The last film in the series, Fast 9 opened with £6m in 2021 but that was from four days, having opened on a Thursday. It’s Friday to Sunday total was £4.9m in 2021 and it finished its run with £16.5m, so Fast X will be looking at a final total north of that, particularly with the schools off next week.
After two weekends in the top spot, Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 fell to second but still held up pretty well in the face of Fast X. The MCU blockbuster added £2.8m, a drop of 47% from last weekend. That takes its total to £28.9m and it has now overtaken the total of the first Guardians Of The Galaxy film, which finished with £28.6m in 2014. In terms of recent Marvel films it’s now just over £5m behind the final total of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which finished its run with £34.4m. Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 might be very close to that figure after half-term week.
The Super Mario Bros. Movie fell to third on its seventh weekend adding £544k, a drop of 37% from last weekend. That takes its total to a huge £51.8m and in terms of the biggest animated films, it’s now just £2m behind Frozen II, the fourth biggest animated film of all-time, with a final total of £53.8m.
Coming of age comedy-drama, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret is an adaptation of Judy Blume’s seminal novel and it opened this weekend with £327k, which includes £40k from previews. Director Kelly Fremon Craig made a lovely coming of age movie in 2016 called Edge Of Seventeen and that opened with £273k on its way to £541k. Hopefully Are You There God? holds up better and Comscore’s PostTrak survey suggests it might with Parents and Kids awarding the film 5 stars, and the General audience giving it 4 stars.
Another new entry completed the top five as Ari Aster’s Beau Is Afraid launched with £231k, which includes £29k from previews. This is Aster’s third film to hit UK cinemas and at three hours is his longest. He’s making a name for himself with arduous, terrifying films and his previous two, Hereditary and Midsommar, opened with £1.9m and £811k respectively.
Outside the top five, event cinema returned to the top 10 as Don Giovanni – Met Opera 2023 opened in ninth with a smidgen under £100k.
Next Weekend
The Little Mermaid is a live-action adaptation of the classic Disney animation. Halle Bailey plays Ariel, a young mermaid who makes a deal with a sea witch to trade her beautiful voice for human legs so she can discover the world above water and impress a prince. Melissa McCarthy plays Ursula the sea witch.
The Buzz
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is the seventh film in Tom Cruise’s action series that seems to get bigger and better with each instalment. This time around Ethan Hunt and the IMF team must track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity if it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider that nothing can matter more than the mission - not even the lives of those he cares about most. Joining the usual IMF members in the cast is Hayley Atwell and like the previous instalment, Mission: Impossible - Fallout, it’s set to be one of the very best action films of the year with Tom Cruise performing jaw-dropping stunts all for our entertainment. It’s in cinemas on Tuesday, 11 July and is forecast to deliver 10 16-34 TVRs.
Across The Pond
Fast X opened in the top spot with $67.5m, which is just shy of the $70m that Fast 9 opened with in 2021. Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 posted another good hold, falling 48% to $32m for a new total of $266.5m. The Super Mario Bros. Movie posted a terrific hold, falling 22% to $9.8m for a new total of $549.3m. Book Club: The Next Chapter fell to fourth, adding $3m for a new total of $13.1m. Evil Dead Rise completed the top five, adding $2.4m for a new total of $64.1m.