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The Weekend round-up
Inside Out always looked like the stand-out animated title of the year and it kicked off with a very impressive £7.4m, which is the sixth highest opening weekend of the year so far. It’s also the fourth highest Friday to Sunday opening of any Pixar film.
Ant-Man fell to second, easing 37% to £2.5m, for a ten day total of £9.6m. It has now overtaken the final totals of smaller Marvel titles, The Incredible Hulk (£8.3m) and Captain America: The First Avenger (£9.5m).
Minions fell to third with £2m, but that was a drop of just 17% and with the school holidays now in full swing it will be looking to add considerably to its current total of £37.1m.
Boxing drama, Southpaw opened strongly in fourth, kicking off its run with £1.7m.
Jurassic World continued it’s remarkable performance, falling just 12% to £1m and it’s now the ninth biggest film of all time, having banked a huge £61.5m.
Outside of the top five, Terminator: Genisys crossed the £10m mark in seventh and Bajrangi Bhaijaan cemented its status as the best performing Bollywood title of the year so far in eighth, adding £408k for an impressive ten day total of £1.7m.
Overall, the box office was up 26% from last weekend and up a chunky 72% from the same weekend last year, when the top three films were Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes, Hercules, The Purge: Anarchy and How To Train Your Dragon 2.
Next Weekend
Tom Cruise returns in Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation on Thursday. It’s an entertaining, gripping action-thriller, with some typically astounding stunt work from Cruise.
Hot Pursuit is the new comedy starring Reese Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara. It was released in the US in May and has grossed $34.5m to date, so we have modest hopes for it here.
The Buzz
Actor, Joel Edgerton (Warrior, Exodus: Gods and Kings) makes his directorial debut with horror-thriller, The Gift, which is in cinemas on 7 August. Edgerton also stars, alongside Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall, and the early reviews have been promising. The Hollywood Reporter said it’s ‘a pleasant - or pleasantly unpleasant - surprise, hitting its genre marks in brisk, unfussy fashion and raising a few hairs on the back of your neck along the way’. The Wrap were even more effusive, claiming ‘The Gift is a truly brilliant thriller - and, one hopes, the first of many features from Edgerton to come.’
Across The Pond
Ant-Man held on to the top spot, adding $24.9m for a ten day total of $106.2m. It narrowly beat Pixels to the number one spot, as the Adam Sandler sci-fi comedy opened with a disappointing $24m. Minions took third spot with $22.9m for a cume of $262.5m. Trainwreck fell 43% to $17.3m in fourth and has now grossed a healthy $61.5m. Southpaw completed the top five with $16.7m.