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The Weekend Round-up
On the first sunny weekend of the year, Rampage held on to the top spot. The Dwayne Johnson action pic fell 55% to £1.4m, which takes its total to £6.5m. At the same point of its release, Johnson’s San Andreas was on £8.3m, so Rampage is tracking 22% behind.
A Quiet Place went up one spot to second, delivering the best hold in the top 10, falling 46% to £1m. That takes its total to £8.3m and it’s still closing in on Get Out’s final total of £10.4m.
The weekend’s highest new entry was The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society. Mike Newell’s period comedy opened in third with £826k (including £15k from previews), which is just behind the Friday to Sunday total of £826k that Their Finest opened with almost exactly a year ago. That film finished on £4.1m and with the good weather now likely to be gone until June, hopefully The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society can get to a similar or slightly higher total.
Ready Player One fell a chunky 58% to 503k, but that was enough to take it over the £15m mark. It now sits on £15.4m and has over taken Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri to be the eighth biggest film of 2018 to date.
It would appear that Peter Rabbit was the biggest casualty of the inclement weather. The blockbuster family comedy fell a huge 76% to £487k in fifth, which takes its total to £38.9m. Last week it overtook Paddington and it seemed like just a matter of time before it overtook Paddington 2’s final total of £42.6m, but after this weekend it looks like it might fall short.
The only other new entry in the top 15 was Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland drama, The Leisure Seeker, which opened in 14th with £105k.
Overall, the box office was down 55% from last weekend and down 39% from the same weekend last year, when the top films were Fast & Furious 8, The Boss Baby, Beauty And The Beast and Their Finest.
Next Weekend
Avengers: Infinity War is set to be Marvel’s biggest film to date and features a mind-boggling 64 major characters. This time around, the Avengers and their allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe. It will easily be one of the biggest films of the year.
Beast is the latest in hotly tipped British independent cinema starring soon-to-be huge Jessie Buckley as a troubled woman who lives in an isolated community and finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders.
The Buzz
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is the sequel to one of the biggest films of all time and is all set to be one of the biggest film of the summer. When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire (Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. It’s perfectly timed before the FIFA World Cup on 6 June and a new trailer launched last week, which can be found here: https://youtu.be/NooW_RbfdWI.
Across The Pond
A Quiet Place went back up to the top spot, adding $21m for a new total of $131.3m. Last week’s top film, Rampage, fell to second, adding $20m, which takes its total to $65.7m. Amy Schumer's comedy I Feel Pretty opened in third with $16m, while another comedy, Super Troopers 2, opened in fourth with $15.2m. Truth or Dare completed the top five, falling 58% to $7.8m, which takes its total to $30.3m.