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The Weekend Round-up
Hotel Transylvania 2 took the top spot for the second weekend in a row, falling just 20% to £2.3m. It has now grossed £9.4m and has already outperformed the first film’s final total of £8.3m. With the half term holidays taking place this week, it has the potential to double the first film’s total.
The Martian ascended back up the chart to second, adding £1.7m and crossing the £20m mark in the process. It has now banked a terrific £20.4m and will enter the top ten of the year at some point this week.
Paranormal Activity: Ghost Dimension opened in third with £1.5m, which included £349k from previews. That’s the lowest opening of the series but with Halloween next weekend, it should have the legs to outgross Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones’ final total of £2.9m.
Suffragette had a fantastic hold, falling just 13% to £1.3m and to date has grossed £5.8m. Of all the titles currently in cinemas, it is perhaps best placed to survive the SPECTRE-onslaught and has a good chance of getting up to £10m.
The other major new entry in the top ten was Vin Diesel fantasy-adventure, The Last Witch Hunter, which opened in fifth with £1.2m, which includes £267k from previews.
Pan also had a decent hold, falling 28% to £1.2m. It has so far grossed £4.6m and, like Hotel Transylvania 2, should provide a decent draw during the half term week.
In the lower reaches of the top ten, The Lobster had a great second weekend, actually increasing on its first weekend total by 10%, adding £242k for a ten day total of £652k.
Overall, the box office was down 36% from last weekend and equal to the same weekend last year, when the top four spots were taken by Fury, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Gone Girl and The Book Of Life.
Next Weekend
The little-film-that-could, SPECTRE, hit cinemas on Monday. Fingers crossed it finds its audience.
The Buzz
Steven Spielberg’s Bridge Of Spies has been out in the US for two weekends now and has so far banked $32.6m. It has been warmly received by critics, with a score of 81 on Metacritic and having seen the film, it’s a richly satisfying, meaty thriller with great performances from Tom Hanks and Mark Rylance. It’s out on 26 November.
Across The Pond
The Martian returned to the top of the box office, adding $15.7m for an impressive cume of $166.2m. It swapped places with Goosebumps, which dropped to second, after adding a further $15.5m for a ten day total of $43.7m. Bridge Of Spies had a great hold in third, falling 26% to $11.4m and after two weekends in cinemas it has grossed $32.6m. The highest new entry was Vin Diesel’s The Last Witch Hunter, which kicked off its run with $10.8m. Hotel Transylvania 2 completed the top five with $8.9m for a cume of $148.2.
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