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| Author | Tom Linay |
The Weekend Round-up
- Ralph Breaks The Internet held on to the top spot, adding £2.4m, which takes its total after 10-days in cinemas to £7.4m. Disney’s big animation for Christmas 2016 was Moana, which, like Ralph Breaks The Internet, opened on the first weekend of December. On its second weekend Moana grossed £1.9m and was up to £4.8m, so Ralph Breaks The Internet is tracking well ahead at this stage. Moana finished on £20.5m thanks to a strong Christmas holiday period, so Ralph Breaks The Internet should be looking at a total north of that figure.
- On its fifth weekend, The Grinch went back up to second and posted by far the best hold of any film in the top 10, falling just 14% to £2m. That takes its total to £19.5m and proves the strength of a good Christmas themed film in the run-up to the festive period. With 15 days still to go until Christmas day, The Grinch will be looking at finishing on a total not far from £30m.
- Creed 2 came in third, falling 43% to £1.7m. That takes its total after 10 days in cinemas to £6m. At the same stage of its run, the first Creed fell 44% to £1.2m and was on £4.3m, so this sequel is tracking 39% ahead of its predecessor.
- Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald came in fourth, falling 46% to £1.5m. After four weekends in cinemas, the J.K. Rowling penned blockbuster is now up to £29.3m and is the 10th highest grossing film of 2018.
- Bohemian Rhapsody completed the top five, adding £978k, a drop of 37% from last weekend. That takes its total to £44m and it has now overtaken The Greatest Showman to be the fifth highest grossing film during 2018. Fourth on the list is Black Panther on £50.5m, which looks out of reach of the Queen behemoth.
- Outside of the top five, The Old Man & The Gun, featuring Robert Redford’s last ever big screen performance, opened in seventh with £318k, which includes £71k from previews. One of Redford’s last films, All Is Lost, opened in December 2013 with £232k, which included £35k from previews.
- Sorry To Bother You opened in eighth with £250k, which includes £64k from previews.
Overall, the box office was down 36% from last weekend and up 75% from the same weekend last year, when the top films were Paddington 2, Daddy’s Home 2, Wonder and Justice League.
Next Weekend
- Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse is the animated Spider-Man film that is one of the best reviewed superhero films in years. Miles Morales becomes the Spider-Man of his reality and crosses paths with his counterparts from other dimensions to stop a threat to all reality.
- Aquaman is the latest DC Comics film and focuses on Arthur Curry who learns that he is the heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, and must step forward to lead his people and be a hero to the world. Jason Momoa stars as Curry / Aquaman.
- Once Upon A Deadpool is an attempt to make a more family friendly version of Deadpool 2 with a Christmas spin, including Fred Savage (The Princess Bride, The Wonder Years). It still received a 15-cert in the UK and is in cinemas for one night only on Tuesday (11 December).
The Buzz
Bumblebee is the latest film featuring the Transformer that takes the guise of a yellow Volkswagen Beatle. On the run in the year of 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. Charlie, on the cusp of turning 18 and trying to find her place in the world, discovers Bumblebee, battle-scarred and broken. The critics are calling it the best Transformers film yet and at the time of writing it has a score of 100% on Rotten Tomatoes from 17 reviews (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bumblebee). It’s previewing on Saturday and Sunday next weekend, before opening nationwide on boxing day.
Across The Pond
Ralph Breaks The Internet topped the box office once again, adding $16.1m, which takes its total to $140.9m. In an animated one-two, The Grinch, came in second, adding $15.2m, which takes its total to $223.5m. Creed II came in third, adding $10.3m, for a new total of $96.5m. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald fell 40% to $6.8m in fourth, which takes its total to $145.2m. Bohemian Rhapsody completed the top five, adding $6m for a new cume of $173.6m.