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Box Office Round-up
Bridget Jones is back on top of the box office, as the fourth film starring the iconic British character, Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy, opened with a terrific £12.3m. This includes £2.1m in previews after opening on Thursday, but the £10.2m Friday to Sunday total is still the biggest opening in the series, surpassing the £8.1m Bridget Jones’s Baby opened with in 2016. Bridget Jones’s Baby posted some terrific holds in weeks two and three which took it to a huge £48.3m, so hopefully Mad About The Boy can do the same.
Captain America: Brave New World opened in second with a strong £6.4m. This is the fourth film in the Captain America, series and has opened more strongly than the first two, Captain America: The First Avenger (£3.3m) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier (£6m). The Winter Soldier finished its run on £19.4m so that has to be the target for Brave New World.
Dog Man fell to third, adding £1.9m, down 43% from last weekend, for a 10-day total of £5.7m. It’s half term this week, so expect a bumper week for the animated hero, and hopefully it can get close to the final total of Migration, which finished on £21.5m after a February release last year.
Romantic-horror Heart Eyes opened in fourth with £710k, which includes £97k from previews. In terms of 2025 horror/thrillers, that is very similar to Companion’s Friday to Sunday total of £672k, and Wolf Man’s £654k Friday to Sunday total. In terms of current total, Companion is winning that battle with £1.8m to date.
Mufasa: The Lion King rounded out the top five, adding £454k, down 35% from last weekend. That takes its total after nine weekends in cinemas to just shy of £31m. With half term this week it should be looking at getting to £32m by this time next week.
Outside of the top five, A Complete Unknown in sixth is now up to £10.9m, which means it has surpassed James Mangold’s previous music-biopic Walk The Line which finished its run with £10.4m.
South Asian film Chhaava opened in eighth with £230k.
Next Weekend
The Monkey is the latest thriller from Osgood Perkins (Longlegs) and is based on a short story by Stephen King. When twin brothers Bill and Hal find their father's old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths start. The siblings decide to throw the toy away and move on with their lives, growing apart over the years.
I’m Still Here is a Brazilian drama starring an Oscar-nominated Fernanda Torres as a mother who is forced to reinvent herself when her family's life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence during the tightening grip of a military dictatorship in Brazil, 1971.
The Buzz
The Accountant 2 is a sequel to the hit thriller from 2016 (The Accountant). In the first film Ben Affleck played Christian Wolff, an autistic certified public accountant who makes his living uncooking the books of criminal and terrorist organizations around the world that are experiencing internal embezzlement. In this sequel, Wolff is contacted by a treasury agent to help solve a murder. With the help of his estranged but highly lethal brother Brax (Jon Bernthal), Chris applies his brilliant mind and less-than-legal methods to piece together the unsolved puzzle. It’s once again directed by Gavin O’Connor (Warrior) and it’s one of the best ways to reach 16-34, and ABC1 men in Q2 when it hits cinemas on 25 April.
Across The Pond
Captain America: Brave New World opened in the top spot with $88.5m, the biggest opening weekend of the year to date. Paddington In Peru has finally made it to North America and opened in second with $13m. Heart Eyes received a Valentine’s boost, increasing on last weekend to $10m, which takes its total to $21.5m. Dog Man fell to fourth but added $9.7m for a new total of $66.8m. Finally, Chinese sensation Ne Zha 2 rounded out the top five, opening with $7m.