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The Weekend Round-up
Kingsman: The Golden Circle retained the top spot for the second straight week adding £4.2m and dropping only 32% (once previews are removed) to reach a lifetime total of £15.6m. It is ahead of Kingsman: The Secret Service by 90% (£8.2m at the same point of release in 2015).
In its fourth weekend, blockbuster horror It stayed in second, adding £1.7m with a drop of 39%. The title has a lifetime gross of £29.4m which makes it the eighth highest grossing film of 2017 and it will soon become the seventh 2017 release to pass £30m.
Victoria and Abdul kept a solid hold in third, falling just 24% to add £943k for a running total of £7m.
Goodbye Christopher Robin opened in fourth, grossing £781k which is on par with Saving Mr. Banks, which opened with £796k nin 2013.
Other new openers this weekend include remake Flatliners, which came in at number five with £487k.
Outside of the top five, Reese Witherspoon drama Home Again opened in sixth with £484k.
Overall the box office was down 30% from last weekend and down 25% from the same weekend last year, which saw the openings of Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children and Deepwater Horizon.
Next Weekend
Thirty years after the events of the first film, Blade Runner 2049 sees LAPD Officer K (Ryan Gosling) unearth a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. The film stars Harrison Ford, who reprises his role at Rick Deckard, and has been described by The Guardian’s film critic, Peter Bradshaw, as “a gigantic spectacle of pure hallucinatory craziness”.
The Mountain Between Us is a romance-disaster film starring Idris Elba and Kate Winslet. Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow covered mountain.
Based on one of the longest-running New York Times bestsellers, The Glass Castle tells the story of Jeannette Walls’ unconventional upbringing at the hands of her deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant parents. The film stars Brie Larson as Walls with Naomi Watts, Woody Harrelson, Max Greenfield, and Sarah Snook in supporting roles.
The Buzz
Happy End is a drama about a family set in Calais with the European refugee crisis as the backdrop, directed by Michael Haneke, who is only the second director ever to have won his two Palmes d’Or for consecutive films. It was selected as the Austrian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards and plays at the London Festival, before being released nationwide in December 2017.
Across The Pond
It was a tight three-way race for top spot at the US box office, with Kingsman: The Golden Circle edging just ahead of It, with both films adding $16.9m. Kingsman: The Golden Circle dropped 5% for a new total of $66.6m, while It dropped 43% for a total cume of $290.8m after its fourth weekend. American Made secured third place opening with $16.8m, while The LEGO Ninjago Movie took fourth place with $11.6m for a running total of $35.2m, while Flatliners opened with $6.6m for a fifth place start.