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The Weekend Round-up
After opening with comfortably the biggest opening weekend of the year last week, and the fourth biggest of all time, the question was how well SPECTRE would hold up on its second weekend. Well, the answer was pretty well. A drop of 34% to £13.1m, means that SPECTRE is now on £64m, less than £400k behind 2015’s top film, Jurassic World.
Hotel Transylvania 2 held on to second spot, adding £1.1m for a terrific cume of £17.5m. It has now more than doubled the final total of the first Hotel Transylvania (£8.3m).
Brooklyn was the highest new entry in third, with £1.1m (including £65k from previews). That’s a solid opening for a wonderful film that should hold up well over the coming weeks.
Pan added £521k in fourth and the fantasy adventure has grossed £7.9m to date.
Bradley Cooper drama, Burnt, completed the top five with £446k.
Outside of the top five, a few new entries landed in the lower end of the top 15. Scout’s Guide To The Zombie Apocalypse opened in eighth with £297k (including £25k from previews), Kill Your Friends opened in eleventh with £102k (including £7k from previews) and documentary, He Named Me Malala opened in twelfth with £102k (including £24k from previews).
The box office was down 62% from last weekend and up 58% from the same weekend last year, when the top four spots were taken by Interstellar, Mr. Turner, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Gone Girl.
Next Weekend
Steve Jobs is in cinemas on Friday. It’s a film packed with killer dialogue and great performances, with Michael Fassbender utterly compelling as the Apple chief.
Maggie Smith will be wowing older audiences with The Lady In The Van, an adaptation of Alan Bennett’s stage play. A man forms an unexpected bond with a transient woman living in her car that's parked in his driveway.
The Hallow is a creepy horror about a family who move into a remote milllhouse in Ireland and find themselves in a fight for survival with demonic creatures living in the woods.
Russell Crowe, Aaron Paul and Amanda Seyfried star in Gabriele Muccino’s (The Pursuit of Happyness) Fathers And Daughters. Crowe plays a Pulitzer-winning writer who grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.
The Buzz
Snoopy And Charlie Brown: A Peanuts Movie opened in the US on Friday and, while the film has a stronger following in the US, it opened with an impressive $45m. US critics were also glowing, with Richard Roeper calling it ‘a sweet, funny, smart, genuine all-ages movie with simple, timeless messages’ and The Hollywood Reporter said it’s ‘a delightful romp that captures the spirit of the adored 65-year-old comic strip. UK publications have been a bit less glowing, with Time Out giving it three stars and Screen International saying it ‘certainly has heart but also feels dispiritingly riskless.’ It’s out on 21 December.
Across The Pond
SPECTRE opened in the top spot, banking a solid $70.4m. That's the second highest opening for a Bond film ever, behind Skyfall’s $88.3m. That film finished over $300m but SPECTRE will be happy to cross the $200m mark. The Peanuts Movie came in second with $44m and The Martian had another great weekend, falling 22.5% to $9.1m and a strong cume of $197m. Goosebumps added $6.8m in fourth and has now banked a solid $66.3m and Bridge Of Spies completed the top five, adding $5.9m for a healthy cume of $55m.
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