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Lucy topped the box office this weekend, opening with £3m from Friday to Sunday. Including bank holiday Monday it’s up to £4.1m, which is a terrific start for an original sci-fi title. Compared to other recent original sci-fi films the Friday to Sunday total is higher than Edge of Tomorrow (£1.9m), Elysium and After Earth (both £2.2m). It also continues lead actor, Scarlett Johansson’s amazing year, having starred in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Under The Skin, Her and Chef.
The Inbetweeners 2 dropped to second but still had a decent weekend, adding £2.4m from Friday to Sunday and a chunky £844k on Monday for a huge cume of £28.5m. It’s now the third biggest film of the year and has the pace to overtake Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and The Lego Movie, who currently sit in the top two spots. Guardians of the Galaxy had another strong weekend in third, adding £1.9m including Monday for a cume of £22.5m. It’s now Marvel’s third highest grossing release of all time, behind Avengers Assemble and Iron Man 3, and is the eighth biggest film of the year to date.
Fourth, fifth and sixth spots were taken by a trio of new entries that all opened last Wednesday. The best performing was weather based thriller, Into The Storm, which including Monday has grossed £1.5m. Another horror from the director of Sinister, Deliver Us From Evil took fifth with £747k to date and Daniel Radcliffe rom-com, What If was in sixth with £746k to date. There was one other notable new entry in 14th, in Marion Cotillard drama, 2 Days, 1 Night. From Friday to Sunday it clocked up £165k (including £6k from previews) and including Monday is now up to £246k. With the revered Dardenne brothers’ previous film, The Kid With A Bike grossing £369k over its entire run, this is a great result.
From Friday to Sunday the box office was up 1% from last weekend and up just £58k from the same weekend last year.
Next Weekend
Sin City: A Dame To Kill For opened on Monday and has had an inauspicious start. Full figures will be published next week. Comedy, Let’s Be Cops opens on Wednesday and will be hoping to repeat its solid US performance ($45m to date). Romantic weepie, If I Stay was the week’s highest new entry in the US this week and will be hoping it makes a similar connection here. Also in cinemas are Paris-set horror, As Above, So Below and Million Dollar Arm.
The Buzz
Buzz is continuing to build for Pride ahead of its 12 September release. Den of Geek recently published their five star review and Owen Jones wrote an impassioned piece on the film and its celebration of solidarity in The Guardian. Jones states that he’s “not embarrassed to admit that I wept at this beautiful film”.
Across The Pond
Guardians of the Galaxy moved back up to the top spot, falling just 32% to $17.2m and has now grossed $251.5m. At some point this week it will become the highest grossing film of the year. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was in second place, falling 41% to $16.7m and to date has grossed $145.5m. The highest new entry was If I Stay, which took third place with $15.7m. The audience was 61% under 25 and 77% female. Let's Be Cops came in fourth with $10.8m and to date has grossed $45.1m. The top five was completed by another new entry, high school football drama When The Game Stands Tall, which opened with $8.4m. One other film to note is Sin City: A Dame to Kill For which opened in eighth place with a disastrous $6.3m. That's down a huge 78% from the original Sin City's debut.