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The Weekend Round-up
- Spider-Man: Far From Home has the rest of the box office tied up in its web, with a sticky grip on the top of the box office in its second weekend. The superhero caper added £4.3m to take its total to £22.5m. The sequel is now swinging 34% ahead of Spider-Man: Homecoming at the same point of release.
- Spider-Man is far from home alone at the top of the pile, as Toy Story 4 grossed £3.7m to take its total to £42.5m over the weekend, with a drop of only 32%. The film has now has a friend in Avengers: Endgame, as the films now share the top two spots in the yearly box office top 10 after Toy Story surpassed Captain Marvel.
- Annabelle Comes Home opened in third place with £2.2m, which includes previews. This is the seventh instalment in the franchise, but is tracking 24% behind the last two Annabelle spinoffs.
- Yesterday seems an understated hit in its third week; adding a further £1m is just a day in the life of the romcom. It seems in order to have a box office smash, all you need is love. The film has now grossed £35.2m, which is really something. We’ll check back with this total when it’s £64m.
- Aladdin has used up the last of its three wishes to grant itself the smallest weekly drop of the top 10, and now has a lifetime total of £35.2m.
- Outside of the top five, Pavarotti opened in 7th place with £300k, Stuber opened in 9th with a disappointing £210k, and the top 10 was completed by Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die, which opened with £192k.
The overall box office is down 30% from last weekend, ranking 34th out of the latest 52 weekends. It is down 7% versus the same weekend last year, when Incredibles 2 opened at No.1 with £9.4m followed by Skyscraper opening at No.2 with £1.4m.
Next Weekend
The Lion King is the latest classic Disney animation to get the live-action treatment. After the murder of his father, a young lion prince flees his kingdom only to learn the true meaning of responsibility and bravery.
The Buzz
Crawl has been screened to critics and has receivedwarm reviews. The appropriately named David Fear writes in Rolling Stone ‘Like the apex predators slithering at the center of it all, it gets the job done once it lets is more brutal, primal instincts take over.’ Angelica Jade Bastien echoes this in the New York Magazine, writing ‘Crawl is a great example of a simple story exceedingly well-told. It's a bloody adventure full of teeth-gnawing turns of fortune, mordant wit, vicious gator kills, and surprising tenderness - that clocks in at a blessedly fleet 87 minutes.’ Crawl is released in UK cinemas on 23 August 2019.
Across The Pond
Spider-Man: Far from Home kept a hold of the top of the US box office in its second weekend, adding $45m to take its running total to $275m. Toy Story 4 came in second with a new total of $364m. Crawl opened in third place in $12m, with Stuber opening in fourth with $8m. The top five was completed by Yesterday, falling two places with a new total of $48m.