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| Author | Tom Linay |
| Categories | box Office |
The Weekend Round-up
- Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish passed their box office exams once again, as Night School opened in the top spot with £1.6m. Hart’s Ride Along 2 opened with £2.1m in 2016, while Haddish’s Girls Trip opened with £1.3m last year, and Night School opened in between the two.
- Last week’s top film, The House With A Clock In Its Walls fell to second but posted a strong hold, falling 33% once previews are removed, to £1.5m. That takes its total to £5.5m and it still has a shot at topping Goosebumps’ final total of £9m. It’s also laid down a marker for Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween, which is in cinemas in a couple of weeks.
- A Simple Favour fell to third, but posted a terrific hold, falling just 24% - the lowest amount in the top 10 – to £1m. That takes its total to £3.4m and it was comfortably the strongest performer during the week last week, so it should be looking at getting well over £5m by the end of its run.
- Crazy Rich Asians also posted a solid hold, falling 36% to £731k. That takes its total to £4.8m and in the race between Crazy Rich Asians and King Of Thieves, Thieves is just in front on £5m, but Crazy Rich Asians is holding up more strongly over the weekend. It’s a real nail-biter!
- The Nun completed the top five, falling 36% to £659k. That takes it over the £10m mark and it now sits on £10.6m, taking it past The Conjuring’s final total of £10.5m. It’s now the second biggest film in The Conjuring extended universe and should overtake The Conjuring 2 on £11m by this time next week to become the biggest film in the extended universe.
- Outside of the top five, Glenn Close drama The Wife opened in eighth with £393k, which includes £56k from previews.
- In 13th place, Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again has now passed the £65m mark.
Overall, the box office was down 30% from last weekend and down 20% from the same weekend last year, when the top films were Kingsman: The Golden Circle, It, Victoria & Abdul, and Goodbye Christopher Robin.
Next Weekend
- A Star Is Born is the buzzed about film of the moment. Bradley Cooper stars as a musician who helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral. Lady Gaga co-stars and apparently it’s amazing. It’s in cinemas on Wednesday.
- Venom is a comic book film starring Tom Hardy as Eddie Brock, who acquires the powers of a symbiote and will have to release his alter-ego "Venom" to save his life. It has been given a 15-certificate in the UK and will be following in the footsteps of recent 15-cert comic book films, Deadpool and Logan. It’s in cinemas on Wednesday.
- Johnny English Strikes Again is the third film starring Rowan Atkinson’s hapless British secret agent. After a cyber-attack reveals the identity of all of the active undercover agents in Britain, Johnny English is forced to come out of retirement to find the mastermind hacker.
- Blindspotting is a thriller that has been receiving great reviews in the US. While on probation, a black man begins to re-evaluate his relationship with his volatile best friend.
The Buzz
Steve McQueen’s Widows opens the London Film Festival next week and is riding the wave of a series of great reviews from its Toronto premiere. Indiewire said ‘the movie engages with topics as complex as sexism, police brutality, and interracial marriage, but it still delivers on the car chases and gunplay’. The Guardian said ‘there are so many characters at play here and [the] script manages to let them all breathe, giving each actor small defining moments and given the exceptional cast involved, it makes for a richly rewarding experience.’ It opens LFF next Wednesday (10th) and opens in the UK nationwide on 6 November.
Across The Pond
Night School opened in the top spot in the US too with $27m, while animated comedy Smallfoot opened in second with $23m. Last week’s top film, The House With a Clock in Its Walls, fell to third, easing 53% to $12.6m, which takes its 10-day total to $44.9m. A Simple Favour posted another strong hold, falling just 36% to $6.5m, which takes its total to $43m. The Nun completed the top five, adding $5.4m for a new total of $109m.