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The Weekend Round-up
- Frozen II has stayed in the top spot for a second week running adding £8.7m, bringing its cumulative total to £27.3m. Among all 2019 releases, it is already the ninth-highest grossing and will overtake Downton Abbey this week (£28.1m). A total of £40m will put it in the 2019 top five ahead of Captain Marvel (£39.4m).
- Knives Out opened in second with £2.9m, which includes £699,479 of previews.
- Last Christmas posted another good hold on its third weekend, falling just 27% with £1.7m, bringing its total to £10m. With the festive season ramping up in the final month of the year, it will look for a long tail to make it one of Universal’s standout 2019 titles.
- Following a week of controversy which saw Vue remove the film and later reinstate it from its sites, Blue Story took £850,000 on its second weekend. The film has £2.9m in total and will look to move past the totals of urban genre companions Brotherhood (£3.7m) and Adulthood (£3.3m) in the next week or two.
- Charlie’s Angels rounds out the top five. It matched its slow performance in the US with a £547k start, including £28.5k from previews. The previous incarnation starring Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu opened in November 2000 with £3.1m.
- Outside of the top five, in its ninth week, Joker (£57.5m) is close to overtaking Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (£57.6m) to take 21st place in the all-time chart.
Overall the box office is down 27% from last weekend and down 1% from the same weekend last year when the top films were Ralph Breaks The Internet, Creed 2, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald and The Grinch.
Next Weekend
- Motherless Brooklyn is a crime drama directed by and starring Edward Norton. In 1950s New York, a lonely private detective (Norton) afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend.
- Lucy In The Sky stars Natalie Portman as Astronaut Lucy Cola who returns to Earth after a transcendent experience during a mission to space, and begins to lose touch with reality in a world that now seems too small.
- Jumanji: The Next Level is the follow up to box office smash Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle. The gang is back but the game has changed. As they return to rescue one of their own, the players will have to brave parts unknown from arid deserts to snowy mountains, to escape the world's most dangerous game. It previews on Saturday and Sunday, before opening everywhere on Wednesday 11 December.
The Buzz
Richard Jewell is the latest film from Clint Eastwood. It’s the true story of American security guard Richard Jewell (Paul Walter Hauser), who saved thousands of lives from an exploding bomb at the 1996 Olympics, but is vilified by journalists and the press who falsely report that he was a terrorist. It has had screenings in LA and London and the critics are now weighing in. Scott Feinberg the awards correspondent of The Hollywood Reporter said ‘Clint Eastwood’s Richard Jewell is excellent—his best in years! Gut-wrenching true story told by an 89-year-old master, with first-rate acting all around. It’s my sense that Paul Walter Hauser, Sam Rockwell and Kathy Bates will be very much in the awards mix, like the film itself.’ Alex Zane tweeted ‘was just blindsided by a movie, #RichardJewell is a magnificent and compelling late entry to the Oscar race from Clint Eastwood and has one hell of a lead performance from Paul Walter Hauser. Also Sam Rockwell (hero) and Kathy Bates, wow. I laughed, cried, got angry and cheered.’ It’s in UK cinemas on 31 January.
Across The Pond
Frozen II topped the box office over the Thanksgiving weekend, taking $85.3m, pushing its total to $287.6m after two weeks. Knives Out opened in second with $27m while Ford v. Ferrari followed in third, adding $13.2m to take its total to $81m. A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood fell one place to fourth, adding $11.8m, taking its total to $34.3m. Queen and Slim completed the top five, opening with $11.7m on its first weekend.