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The Weekend Round-up
Tom Hardy’s dual performance as Reggie and Ronnie Kray earned Legend the top spot this week, opening with a huge £5.19m including £1.49m from previews. This is the UK’s biggest September release and the biggest ever opening for a British production with an 18 certificate. Producers StudioCanal also announced that Legend was their widest ever release and had become their biggest UK opening of all time, beating 2014’s Paddington which took £5.11m.
The Maze Runner: Scorch Trials opened in second with £2.77m, which includes £349k from previews. That’s up on its predecessor’s £2.04m debut, which included £112k in previews. The Scorch Trials will hope to improve on The Maze Runner’s final tally of £8.89m in the weeks to come.
Another new entry, The Visit, opened in third with £1.03m, including £209.5k from previews.
Straight Outta Compton fell to fourth, but another £630.3k takes it to sit on a cume of £7.1m. It should still end its run as director F. Gary Gray’s best-ever UK result.
Inside Out completed the top five, dropping just 17% in its eighth weekend, with £608.6k. It has now grossed a huge £36.8m.
Outside of the top five, Woody Allen’s Irrational Man opened in tenth place with £197.2k, including £11,234 from 22 previews.
Overall, the box office was up 85% from last weekend and up 57% from the same weekend last year, when the top five films were Boxtrolls, Pride, Lucy, Sex Tape and Before I go to Sleep.
Next Weekend
A Walk In The Woods sees travel writer Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) take a long-lost old friend (Nick Nolte) for a hike along the Appalachian Trail, which stretches more than 2,000 miles from Georgia to Maine.
Everest - This potentially gripping adventure, features a fantastic cast and the scenes set near the summit of the world’s highest mountain are certain to be jawdropping. Lots of actors whose names begin with J embark on a climbing expedition on Mt. Everest but their trip is hampered when they are caught up in a severe snow storm.
The D Train is a comedy starring Jack Black and James Marsden that sees the head of a high school reunion committee travels to Los Angeles to track down the most popular guy from his graduating class and convince him to go to the reunion.
What really happened during Shakespeare's 'Lost Years'? Hopeless lute player Bill Shakespeare leaves his home to follow his dream in Bill.
The Buzz
High-rise is the highly anticipated drama directed by Ben Wheatley, starring Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Luke Evans and Elisabeth Moss. It is based on the 1975 novel of the same name by J.G. Ballard about a tower block falling into anarchy. It premiered at the Toronto Film Festival this week. Screen Daily says “Wheatley delivers a complex, fluid interpretation which is respectful and almost-faithful while still being its own beautiful, crazed beast”, while The Guardian awarded it just two stars, stating “Ben Wheatley brings an anarchic sense of fun to JG Ballard’s story of societal collapse, turning it from a warning into a joke”. It plays as The Festival Gala at the BFI London Film Festival.
Across The Pond
Thriller romance The Perfect Guy narrowly beat out M Night Shyamalan chiller The Visit to top the US box office at the weekend with an opening bow of $25.9m. The Visit took $25.4m on opening, while The War Room drooped to third place, adding $7.8m for a total cume of $39.6m. A Walk in the Woods dropped to fourth, adding another $4.7m. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation completed the top five, adding $4.1m for a total cume of $118m.
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