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The Weekend Round-up
Adam Sandler sci-fi comedy Pixels opened in the top spot with £2.7m, which includes £1.3m from previews. Grown Ups 2 opened with £2.1m (including £421k from previews) on the same weekend in 2013 and it went on to finish on £8.8m, a total Pixels would probably be very happy with.
After a couple of quieter weekends Inside Out had a great few days, falling just 3% to £1.9m. It actually had the strongest Friday to Sunday total and would have returned to the top spot had it not been for Pixels’ previews. It has now banked £27.4m and while £30m-plus looked shakey a couple of weeks ago, it should get there comfortably now.
Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation fell one place to third, easing just 34% to £1.6m and has now grossed £14.8m. It’s a dead cert to overtake MI3’s final total of £15.5m.
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. opened in fourth with £1.4m. The continued success of Rogue Nation appears to have proved more of a draw than this updating of the similarly themed 1960s television show.
Trainwreck completed the top five, opening with £932k (including £5k from previews). Hope that it might prove to be a similar sized hit to The Other Woman, which opened with £2.7m (including £683k from previews) last April have proved to be wide of the mark.
Outside of the top five, Simon Pegg comedy Absolutely Anything opened with £487k in ninth, and Greta Gerwig comedy, Mistress America, opened in thirteenth with £165k (including £2k from previews).
Overall, the box office was up 18% from last weekend and almost exactly on par with the same weekend last year, when the top four films were The Inbetweeners 2, Guardians Of The Galaxy, The Expendables 3 and Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes.
Next Weekend
Sinister 2 is the sequel to the 2012 horror film that grossed £6.6m.
The Bad Education Movie is the big screen debut for the BBC3 sitcom. Jack Whitehall stars and, box office wise, we’re hoping this is more Mrs.Brown’s Boys than Keith Lemon The Movie.
Vacation is the latest outing for the Griswold family, this time led by Rusty Griswold, the son from the original Vacation and European Vacation films. To date it has grossed $46.8m in the US.
Strange Magic is an animation produced by George Lucas about a group of goblins, elves, fairies and imps, and their misadventures sparked by the battle over a powerful potion. It has grossed $12.4m in the US.
The Buzz
99 Homes is a drama about the US housing crisis, starring Andrew Garfield and Michael Shannon. Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian called it a ‘tough, muscular, idealistic drama that packs a mighty punch’, while Guy Lodge in Variety said it was ‘dynamically acted, unapologetically contrived’. It opens in the UK on 25 September.
Across The Pond
Straight Outta Compton smashed it in the US, opening with a huge $60.2m, and an incredible screen average of $22k. Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation dropped one place to second, adding $17.2m for a strong cume of $138.3m. The Man From U.N.C.L.E. came in third with $13.4m. Fantastic Four fell 68% to $8.2m and after ten days in cinemas has banked $42.1m. The Gift completed the top five, adding $6.5m for a cume of $23.6m.
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