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The Weekend Round-up
For months, the question has been whether SPECTRE could possibly match the record-breaking Skyfall. In October 2012, Skyfall hit a record £37.3m in its opening seven days and SPECTRE has smashed that with a gargantuan £41.3m. When you consider that’s really six and a half days, after showings on Monday didn’t start until 7.30pm, it’s even more impressive. It’s Friday to Sunday total of £20m, is the third biggest opening weekend total of all time and only Skyfall (£20.3m) and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (£23.8m) have beaten it. It’s already the fourth biggest film of the year to date, and could overtake Jurassic World (£64.3m) as the biggest by this time next week. The UK public love Bond.
Hotel Transylvania 2 also had a great weekend, increasing its take by 6% from the previous frame, adding £2.4m for a terrific total of £16m. It has added £6.6m in the past seven days, proving that October half term wasn’t all about Bond.
Pan added £790k in third, and crossed the £7m mark in the process. It now sits on £7.2m and also had a solid half term week, adding £2.6m since last weekend.
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension, had a great hold for a horror film, falling 38% (once previews are removed) to £705k. That total was boosted by Halloween on Saturday and after two weekends in cinemas, it has reached £3m and surpassed the lifetime total of the last Paranormal Activity film, The Marked Ones (£2.9m).
Suffragette was a casualty of Bond, falling 56% to £595k, but it has already banked a solid £7.4m.
Outside of the top five, The Martian was also a Bond casualty, plummeting 66% to £591k in sixth, but that was enough to lift it to £21.8m and into the top ten of the year to date.
On the biggest weekend of the year, the box office was up 309% from last weekend and up 329% from the same weekend last year, when the top four spots were taken by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Ouija, Fury and Gone Girl.
Next Weekend
Brooklyn is in cinemas on Friday and is one of the best films of the year. In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan) has to choose between two men and two countries. Filled with wonderful performances, romance and heart, it’s not to be missed.
Nicholas Hoult stars in Kill Your Friends, an adaptation of the satirical novel by John Niven. Hoult plays an A&R man working at the height of the Britpop music craze, who goes to extremes in order to find his next hit.
Bradley Cooper returns in cookery drama, Burnt. Cooper plays Adam Jones, a Chef who destroyed his career with drugs and diva behaviour. He cleans up and returns to London, determined to redeem himself by spearheading a top restaurant that can gain three Michelin stars.
Scouts Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse, is the latest teens versus zombies comedy-horror.
The Buzz
With SPECTRE going berserk in the UK, the gauntlet has been thrown down to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, to see which film can come out on top. Harrison Ford appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live in the US last week and he said ‘I can tell you this: [The movie is] really, really good. Trust me. It’s really good. The new cast, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac are phenomenal. J.J. has made an incredible movie. You will not be disappointed.’ We’ll know whether he’s telling the truth in less than seven weeks time.
Across The Pond
On the quietest weekend of the year, The Martian topped the box office for the fourth weekend out of five, falling just 27.5% to $11.4m. It’s now at $182.8m and is just $4.8m away from being Ridley Scott's highest grossing film in the US. Goosebumps added $10.2m for a solid cume of $57.1m. Bridge of Spies had another decent hold, falling 29% to $8.1m, and to date has banked $45.2m. Hotel Transylvania 2 came in fourth with $5.8m and has now reached a chunky $156m. Rounding out the top five is the highest new entry, Bradley Cooper star vehicle, Burnt, opening with $5m. After Aloha, it’s Cooper’s second dud in a row.
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