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The Weekend Round-up
Minions stayed in the top spot for the third successive weekend, adding £4.2m for a huge cume of £27.6m. It’s now the biggest animated film of 2015 to date and is now tracking ahead of Despicable Me 2 at the same point.
Ted 2 was the highest new entry in second with £3.9m, which includes £1.2m of previews.
Jurassic World had a great hold, falling just 29% to £1.9m and has now banked a huge £57.2m. It’s now the eleventh biggest film of all time in the UK and will overtake The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (£57.6m) shortly, to take the tenth spot.
With Jurassic World taking the third spot, it made it a Universal 1-2-3 at the top of the box office, the first time a distributor has ever achieved that in the UK.
Terminator: Genisys added £1.7m in fourth for a cume of £7.3m. It’s almost certain to finish its run as the poorest performing Terminator sequel.
Magic Mike XXL completed the top five, adding £955k for a ten day total of £4m.
Outside of the top five, two new entries landed in ninth and tenth. Brian Wilson biopic, Love & Mercy kicked off its run with £108k (including £2k from previews) and Oscar-nominated animation, Song Of The Sea opened in tenth with £72k (including £15k from previews).
Overall, the box office was down 14% from last weekend and down 41% from the same weekend last year, which is skewed by almost £12m in previews for the top two films, Transformers: Age Of Extinction and How To Train Your Dragon 2. The other top films last year were Mrs. Brown’s Boys D’Movie and The Fault In Our Stars.
Next Weekend
Ant-Man is in cinemas on Friday and is a whole load of fun. Marvel’s second film of the year has had a troubled history, with original director Edgar Wright leaving the project, but it features a quartet of winning performances and some of the funniest moments from any Marvel film.
Self/Less stars Ryan Reynolds and Ben Kingsley in a drama about a dying real estate mogul who has his consciousness transferred into a younger body but complications inevitably ensue.
The Gallows is the latest horror movie hoping to make a splash with the 15-24 demographic. It opened in the US on Friday with a solid $10m.
True Story is a mystery thriller starring Jonah Hill, James Franco and Felicity Jones. It got four stars in this month’s Empire Magazine who call it a ‘fascinating, fact based story’.
The Buzz
Paper Towns is based on a novel by John Green, the man who wrote The Fault In Our Stars, one of last year’s big break-out hits. It stars Cara Delevingne and Nat Wolff and the first reviews are coming in from critics. Variety said it ‘pulses with moving and melancholy moments’, Screen International called it a ‘likeable, emotionally precise film [that] has a big heart’ and The Hollywood Reporter said ‘in its considered, neatly packaged way, the film occupies a safe and solid middle-class middle ground in teen storyland’. It’s in cinemas on 17 August.
Across The Pond
Minions opened with $115.7m, which is the second biggest opening weekend ever for an animated film, only behind Shrek The Third. Jurassic World was in second, adding $18.2m for a ridiculous cume of $590.7m. Inside Out banked a further $17.7m in third and now sits on $284.2m. Terminator: Genisys fell one place to fourth with $13.8m for a cume of $68.9m. New entry, The Gallows, completed the top five with $9.9m.
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