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Weekend Round-up
- Joker’s box office dominance continues into a third week as the provocative DC blockbuster added a hefty £5.5m over the weekend. That takes its total to a huge £40.3m and it’s now the fourth biggest film of the year having overtaken Captain Marvel. In terms of recent 15-cert comic book films, it has now surpassed the recent high watermark, Deadpool, which finished on £38.1m. In terms of DC Comics films, the two biggest are The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises on £49.1m and £56.3m respectively. It looks like Joker may finally get the best of The Dark Knight.
- Disney have had a record-breaking year but Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil will be one of its more middling performers. The Angelina Jolie-starring fantasy opened with £3.3m, which is some way down on the £6.6m the first film opened with in 2014, although that was boosted by £2.8m in previews. Maleficent finished on £19.5m, which looks a long way off for Mistress Of Evil.
- Shaun The Sheep Movie: Farmageddon opened in third with £1.3m, which includes £188k from previews after opening in Scotland on Monday. The first Shaun The Sheep Movie opened with £2.1m in 2015, on its way to £13.8m, so Shaun The Sheep had long legs. This new film will need to have very long legs to get close to £13.8m.
- Yet another new entry opened in fourth. Zombieland: Double Tap kicked off with £1.2m, which is exactly the same figure the first film, Zombieland, opened with in 2009. That film finished on £3.5m, which Double Tap will be looking at beating.
- Abominable rounded out the top five, adding £999k, which takes its total to £3.7m. With the school half-term week starting this week for many schools, and the following week for all other schools, it will be hoping for a strong midweek performance.
- Outside of the top five, Judy has now crossed the £6m mark.
Overall the box office is down 14% from last weekend and on par with the same weekend last year when the top films were A Star Is Born, Halloween, Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween and Johnny English Strikes Again.
Next Weekend
- Terminator: Dark Fate is the sixth film in the long-running franchise. Sarah Connor and a hybrid cyborg human must protect a young girl from a newly modified liquid Terminator from the future. It’s in cinemas on Wednesday
- The Addams Family is an animated film featuring Charles Addams’ famous characters - a peculiar, ghoulish family.
- Black And Blue is a hard-hitting drama starring Naomie Harris as a rookie police officer in New Orleans who has to balance her identity as a black woman with her role as a police officer when she witnesses other police officers committing murder.
- Countdown is a horror timed for Halloween. When a nurse downloads an app that claims to predict the moment a person will die, it tells her she only has three days to live. With the clock ticking and a figure haunting her, she must find a way to save her life before time runs out.
The Buzz
Parasite is the Palme d’Or winning thriller from Bong Joon Ho (Okja, Snowpiercer) about an unemployed family in South Korea who begin to take peculiar interest a wealthy and glamorous family, using them for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident. Screen International called it ‘a malign delight from start to finish’, while Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian called it ‘a luxuriously watchable and satirical suspense drama’. It’s opened in the US two weekends ago and has been performing very strongly in limited release. It opens here on 7 February and has a real shot at being a break-out foreign language hit.
Across The Pond
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil opened in the top spot with $36m, which is nearly half the original’s $69.4m opening. Joker fell to second, adding $29.2m, which takes its total to $247.2m. Zombieland: Double Tap opened in third with $26.7m, which is higher than the first Zombieland’s $24.7m opening. The Addams Family fell to fourth, adding $16.1m, which takes its total to $56.8m. Gemini Man completed the top five, adding $8.5m for a new total of $36.5m.