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The Weekend Round-up
Fantastic Four opened in the top spot with £2.7m, which included £817k from Thursday previews.
Last week’s top film, Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation, delivered the strongest Friday to Sunday total of £2.4m, and has now grossed £11m. It should have the legs to overtake Mission: Impossible III’s final total of £15.4m.
Inside Out fell one place to third, easing 45% to £2m and has now grossed £22.8m. Over the weekend it overtook the lifetime total of Brave (£22.2m) and today will overtake Wall-E’s final total of £22.9m.
Southpaw had another strong hold, falling just 30% to £793k and has now grossed an impressive £5.7m. It’s certain to overtake the final total of The Fighter (£6.3m)
The Gift opened in fifth with £585k. It’s a really terrific thriller that’s probably not what you’re expecting, so if you get the chance to see it, go!
Outside of the top five, Amy became the highest grossing British documentary of all time on Friday and has now grossed a fantastic £3.2m.
One other new entry landed in twelfth place, as The Diary Of A Teenage Girl opened with £81k, which included £3k from previews.
Overall, the box office was down 27% from last weekend and down 53% from the same weekend last year, when the top three films were The Inbetweeners 2, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes and Planes 2: Fire and Rescue.
Next Weekend
Trainwreck is the latest comedy from Judd Apatow and is written by and stars, the hottest comedian in the US, Amy Schumer. It opened in the US last month and to date has grossed an impressive $91.1m.
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. is the latest action film from Guy Ritchie and it’s an updating of a 1960s television show about two rival spies that have to join forces.
Pixels is out on Wednesday and after a disappointing performance in the US ($57.6m after three weekends), expectations are not high.
Absolutely Anything is from Monty Python’s Terry Jones and stars Simon Pegg as an ordinary man who gains the power to do absolutely anything (hence the title). Whether he can make this film a hit remains to be seen.
Mistress America is from the team behind the wonderful Frances Ha (Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach). It will be aiming for the arthouse crowd.
The Buzz
Ricki And The Flash is a musical drama, starring Meryl Streep as a musician who gave up everything for her dream of rock-and-roll stardom, but has to deal with a myriad of family issues when she returns home. It opened in the US last week to middling reviews (it currently has a score of 54 on Metacritic) but, as usual, Streep’s performance comes in for almost unanimous praise. It opened with $7m in the US.
Across The Pond
Fantastic Four didn’t have the benefit of previews in the US and could only manage second spot, behind Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation. The Tom Cruise-starring action film added $28.5m for an impressive ten day total of $107.8m. Fantastic Four took second with $25.7m. Psychological thriller, The Gift, opened in third with $11.9m, which is a great result considering it was made with a budget of $5m. Vacation had a solid hold in fourth, falling 38% to $9m, and has now grossed $37.1m. Ant-Man completed the top five with $7.9m for a cume of $147.5m.
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