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| Author | Tom Linay |
The Weekend Round-up
- Ralph Breaks The Internet, the sequel to 2013’s Wreck-It Ralph, knocked The Crimes Of Grindelwald off the top spot, kicking off its run with £4m. While that’s slightly down on the £4.5m Wreck-It Ralph opened with, this sequel should perform strongly in the run-up to Christmas and across the holiday period. Not having a Christmas theme in the film will also place it in good stead for audiences after Christmas.
- Creed II opened in second with £3m. That’s a big improvement over the £2.2m the first Creed opened with in 2016. That film finished its run on £5.9m and this sequel will be looking at finishing comfortably above that figure.
- Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald dropped from first to third, falling 52% to £2.7m. After three weekends in cinemas the J.K. Rowling penned adventure is on £26.8m and at the same point in its run, Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them was on £37.9m.
- The Grinch is a Christmas hit. It added another £2.3m this weekend, a drop of 29%, which takes its total to £17m. You would expect the shallow drops to continue all the way until Christmas, so a total of £25m is not out of the question.
- Bohemian Rhapsody completed the top five and continues to prove a strong draw, falling 31% to £1.5m. It’s now up to £42m and over the weekend it overtook Peter Rabbit (£40.9m) and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (£41.6m) to become the sixth biggest film of 2018 so far. This week it will jump above The Greatest Showman to become the fifth biggest film of 2018.
- Outside of the top five, Bollywood title 2.0 opened in sixth with £505k, which includes £115k from previews, while Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams drama, Disobedience opened in 12thwith £194k, which includes £28k from previews.
Overall, the box office was up 3% from last weekend and up 54% from the same weekend last year, when the top films were Paddington 2, Daddy’s Home 2, Justice League and Wonder.
Next Weekend
- Sorry To Bother You is the much buzzed about comedy from Boots Riley. In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green (Lakeith Stanfield) discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a universe of greed.
- The Old Man And The Gun is screen legend Robert Redford’s last big screen performance. It’s based on the true story of Forrest Tucker and his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 and led to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public.
- White Boy Rick is the story of teenager Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the FBI during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison. It came out in the US in September and has so far grossed $24m.
- Mortal Engines is produced by Peter Jackson (The Lord Of The Rings trilogy) and is about a mysterious young woman named Hester Shaw who joins forces with Anna Fang, a dangerous outlaw with a bounty on her head, and Tom Natsworthy, an outcast from London, to lead a rebellion against a giant predator city on wheels. It’s in cinemas on Saturday.
The Buzz
Mary Poppins Returns is the highly anticipated sequel to the classic Disney adventure. Emily Blunt takes on the iconic role and the film has had its first screenings in the US. Variety’s Awards Editor, Kris Tapley, who is one of the most respected awards commentators, has seen it and thinks it has a major shot at Oscar glory. He recently tweeted ‘on first blush I have Mary Poppins Returns and A Star Is Born co-leading the Oscar nominations with 10 apiece’. It’s in UK cinemas on 21 December.
Across The Pond
Ralph Breaks the Internet held on to the top spot, adding $25.6m, which takes its total to $119.1m. The Grinch came in second, falling 41% to $17.9m, which takes its total to $203.7m. Creed II fell 53% to $16.6m in third, which takes its total to $81m and it’s tracking $17m ahead of the first film at the same stage of its run. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald added $11.4m for a new cume of $134.5m. Bohemian Rhapsody completed the top five, adding $8.1m for a new total of $164.3m.