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The Weekend Round-up
Peter Rabbit followed up a terrific opening weekend last week with a strong hold, falling 37% to £4.6m. That takes its total to £13.6m and while it’s falling faster than Paddington 2, which fell 20% on its second weekend in November, it has the two week Easter holiday period on the horizon which should be a productive period for the family comedy.
Pacific Rim: Uprising opened in second with £1.7m, which is behind the £2.1m the original Pacific Rim opened with in 2013. That film finished on £8.4m and Uprising will need a strong Easter holiday period to get close to that figure.
Black Panther stayed in third, falling 31% to £1.3m. That takes its total to £44.9m and with a decent Easter holiday period it looks like it could have the legs to overtake Avengers: Age Of Ultron (£48.3m) to become Marvel’s second biggest film in UK history.
Tomb Raider fell to fourth and took something of a tumble, falling 54% to £1.2m. That takes its total to £5.5m and it still has some way to go to overtake Assassin’s Creed’s final total of £8m.
For the first time since its release on Boxing Day, The Greatest Showman posted a weekend total lower than £1m. It fell 29% to £753k, which was enough for fifth place. That takes its total over the £40m mark, which is an amazing performance, especially when you consider its opening Friday to Sunday total was £2.6m.
Outside of the top five, Disney had a rare disappointment as A Wrinkle In Time opened in sixth with £655k. It still has the Easter holidays to reach an audience but that’s the first Disney film to open with less than £1m since Queen of Katwe in October 2016, although the scale of both films aren’t really comparable. Pete’s Dragon opened with £845k in August 2016.
Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane opened in seventh with £435k. His last film, Logan Lucky, opened with £705k and finished its run with £3.4m.
Overall, the box office was down 26% from last weekend and down 36% from the same weekend last year, when the top films were Beauty And The Beast, Power Rangers, Get Out and Kong: Skull Island..
Next Weekend
Ready Player One is the latest sci-fi treat from Steven Spielberg. When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he challenges all OASIS users to find his Easter Egg, which will give the finder his fortune.
Isle Of Dogs is the latest stop-motion animation from Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel). Set in Japan, it follows a boy's odyssey in search of his lost dog. It went down a storm as last week’s DCM Film Club in association with Advertising Week Europe.
Blockers is a comedy about three parents who try to stop their daughters from having sex on Prom night. The parents are played by John Cena, Leslie Mann and Ike Barinholtz.
Midnight Sun stars Bella Thorne as a 17-year-old girl who suffers from a condition that prevents her from being out in the sunlight.
Journeyman is the second directorial feature from Paddy Considine. He also stars as Boxer Matty Burton who suffers a serious head injury during a fight. The film details the impact this has on his marriage, his life and his family.
Duck Duck Goose is a family animation about a bachelor goose who must form a bond with two lost ducklings as they journey south.
The Buzz
A brand new trailer for Avengers: Infinity War has been released and anticipation is building for what is likely to be one of the biggest films of the year. With Black Panther breaking records around the world, the expectation is that Infinity War will be the biggest Marvel film yet and the latest trailer was viewed 179m times in its first 24 hours on release. Watch the trailer here: https://youtu.be/QwievZ1Tx-8.
Across The Pond
Pacific Rim Uprising topped the box office in the US with $28m, which is down on the $37.3m the first film opened with. Black Panther finally fell from the top spot after five weeks, adding $17m, which takes its total to $631m. It’s now the highest grossing comic book adaptation of all-time, overtaking Avengers Assemble ($623.3m). It’s also now the fifth biggest film of all time in the US. I Can Only Imagine came in third again, adding $13.6m for a new cume of $38m. Sherlock Gnomes opened in fourth with $10.6m, which is way down on the $25.3m opening for Gnomeo and Juliet in 2011. Tomb Raider completed the top five, adding $10.1m which takes its total to $41.4m.