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The Weekend Round-up
- Disney made it another week at the top of the UK box office as Christopher Robin held on to the top spot. The cute mix of live-action and animation added £2.1m, a drop of just 12% and takes its total to £7.2m. Proving the power of a wet bank holiday weekend, Sunday, comfortably the worst day for weather, saw Christopher Robin gross over £1m, almost half its weekend total.
- On its sixth weekend Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again came in second, adding £1.7m, a drop of just 24%. That takes its total to a huge £58.7m and it’s firmly established as the second biggest film released this year, behind Avengers: Infinity War. While that film’s final total of £70.8m looks a bit too far off it will take a monumental effort for another film to knock Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again from second spot before the end of the year.
- The Meg had a great hold, falling just 29% to £1.5m. That takes its total to £11.7m and it is one of the success stories of the summer, especially considering a film like Rampage grossed £9m after its release back in April.
- Incredibles 2 continued its terrific run, falling a measly 7% to £1.3m. That was enough to take it over the £50m mark to £51.2m, making it only the second animated film to achieve this feat in the UK. It is now on £51.2m and is Pixar’s biggest ever film and has now overtaken Shrek 2 (£48.2m) to become the second biggest animated film of all time.
- The Equalizer 2 completed the top five, adding £1.3m for a new total of £4.6m. The first film finished on £6.9m so this sequel is making a good fist of at least matching it.
- Outside of the top five, Spike Lee’s Cannes award winner BlacKkKlansman opened in sixth with £1.2m, which includes £123k from previews. That’s Lee’s second biggest opening in the UK and BlacKkKlansman is set to become his second biggest film ever in the UK, behind 2006’s Inside Man, which finished on £8.3m.
- The Spy Who Dumped Me opened in seventh with £1.1m, which includes £352k from previews, while Mission: Impossible – Fallout, with £21.9m in eighth, has become the highest grossing film in the series, overtaking Rogue Nation’s £21.2m.
Overall, the box office was down 10% from last weekend and up 94% from the same weekend last year, when the top films were American Made, Dunkirk, The Hitman’s Bodyguard and Logan Lucky.
Next Weekend
- The Happytime Murders is a comedy mixing actors with puppets. When the puppet cast of an '90s children's TV show begin to get murdered one by one, a disgraced LAPD detective-turned-private eye puppet takes on the case.
- Searching is a thriller starring John Cho and Debra Messing. After his 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a desperate father breaks into her laptop to look for clues to find her.
- Upgrade is a sci-fi thriller starring Logan Marshall-Green. Set in the near-future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life. But when Grey, a self-identified technophobe, has his world turned upside down, his only hope for revenge is an experimental computer chip implant called Stem.
- Action Point is a comedy starring Jackass’ Johnny Knoxville, who plays a daredevil who designs and operates his own theme park with his friends.
The Buzz
Crazy Rich Asians is a romantic comedy, based on a global bestseller, that follows native New Yorker Rachel Chu to Singapore to meet her boyfriend's family. It opened in the US a couple of weeks ago and has proven to be one of the big success stories of the year, already grossing over $76m with the promise of much more to come. It opens in the UK on 14 September, with its release moving forward from 2 November just last week.
Across The Pond
Crazy Rich Asians posted a sensational second weekend, falling just 6.4% to $24.8m, which takes its total to $76.6m and it’s looking set for a final total well north of $100m. The film's second weekend drop is one of the smallest of all-time. The Meg came in second, adding $12.8m, which takes its total to $105.1m. The Happytime Murders opened in third with $9.5m and Mission: Impossible - Fallout came in fourth, falling 26% to $8.1m. That takes its total to $194m. Christopher Robin completed the top five, adding $6.3m for a new total of $77.6m.