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The Weekend Round-up
In a year of amazing performing films, Jurassic World may have just delivered the most impressive yet. An opening weekend of £16.8m is the fourth biggest of ALL TIME and the biggest of the year to date, eclipsing Avengers: Age Of Ultron’s £14.4m.
Despite the Jurassic World onslaught, Spy had a very respectable second weekend, falling just 34% to £1.5m for a cume of £5.5m. It should have the legs to overtake The Heat’s final total of £7.3m.
San Andreas fell to third, adding another £844k for a strong cume of £9.9m.
Insidious Chapter 3 was in fourth, with £693k and now has a cume of £2.8m. It’s clear that it’s going to be comfortably the lowest performing film in the series.
Pitch Perfect 2 completed the top five, adding £411k for a sensational cume of £16.8m.
Outside of the top five, London Road opened in eighth with £216k but most of that was from Wednesday previews of £159k.
Overall, the top 15 total of £24.4m was the highest in the last year. The box office was up 166% from last weekend and up a ridiculous 240% from the same weekend last year when the biggest films were 22 Jump Street, Maleficent, X-Men: Days Of Future Past and Edge Of Tomorrow.
Next Weekend
With Jurassic World still expected to dominate next weekend, there’s a trio of smaller releases, the biggest of which is probably Entourage. The television show is a cult favourite, with a feverishly dedicated following, expect the film to be a big hit with them and pass everyone else by.
Mr.Holmes stars Sir Ian McKellen as a retired Sherlock Holmes, who looks back on his life and grapples with an unsolved case involving a beautiful woman. Hopefully some of BBC1’s Sherlock’s many fans will turn out for it.
The Longest Ride is the latest Nicholas Sparks novel to get the big screen treatment. Tomorrowland’s Britt Robertson takes the lead and, as usual with Sparks adaptations, expect much staring into eyes longingly.
The Buzz
Brian Wilson biopic Love & Mercy opens in the UK on 10 July. It has been on limited release in the US for the last couple of weeks and has so far grossed a solid $4.8m. Helped by positive reviews (it has a score of 80 on Metacritic), it should provide an arthouse alternative to the blockbuster fare filling cinemas throughout July.
Across The Pond
Jurassic World’s US performance was even more impressive. It’s being reported that its weekend total is $209m, which would make it the biggest opening weekend of all time, ahead of Marvel's The Avengers ($207.4m). If you’d said just last week that it would eclipse Avengers: Age Of Ultron’s opening weekend ($191.2m), you’d have been laughed at but the fact it beat the first Avengers film too is remarkable. Unsurprisingly, the rest of the films were a long way back, with Spy coming in second with $16m, for a cume of $56.9m. San Andreas dropped to third, adding $11m for a new total of $119.3m, Insidious Chapter 3 added $7.3m for a new cume of $37.4m and Pitch Perfect 2 completed the top five with $6m for a cume of $170.7m.
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