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The Weekend Round-up
Melissa McCarthy comedy, Spy opened at the top of the box office with a solid £2.6m (including £198k from previews), which is comfortably higher than its obvious comparison, The Heat, did in July 2013 (£2.5m, including £910k from previews).
San Andreas dropped to second, but fell faster than expected adding another £1.8m. After ten days in cinemas the Dwayne Johnson disaster movie has banked a strong £8.3m.
Insidious Chapter 3 was another new entry in third with £1.4m. That puts it on a par with the first Insidious film in 2011 but well short of Insidious 2’s opening weekend of £2.9m in 2013.
Mad Max: Fury Road fell to fourth, adding £804k and crossing the £15m mark in the process. It has now banked £15.6m.
Pitch Perfect 2 completed the top five, adding £750k for a huge cume of £16.1m.
Outside of the top five, Secret Cinema’s huge Empire Strikes Back event, which kicked off on Friday, propelled the film into the top 15 in eighth. Expect it to feature in the top 15 regularly across the summer. The only other new entries were Bollywood title Dil Dhadakne Do in ninth with £213k and Milla Jovovich thriller, Survivor, which opened in twelfth with £130k.
Overall, the box office was down 29% from last weekend and down 29% from the same weekend last year when the biggest films were 22 Jump Street, Maleficent, X-Men: Days Of Future Past and Edge Of Tomorrow.
Next Weekend
One of the year’s most anticipated films, Jurassic World is out on Thursday. Jurassic Park was the biggest film in UK history after its release in 1993, so the potential audience for this fourth film is huge. All reviews are embargoed at the moment, so whether or not it lives up to its promise still remains to be seen.
The Buzz
Entourage opens in the UK on 19 June. The cult television show makes the leap to the big screen and it remains to be seen whether the film will appeal to anyone not familiar with the show.
Across The Pond
Spy came out on top in the US too, delivering $30m across the weekend. San Andreas fell to second but added $26.4m for a strong cume of $92.3m. Insidious 3 was in third with $23m for the weekend, and considering the second instalment opened with $40.3m, this is a disappointing result. Entourage stumbled from the small screen to the big one with $17.8m, having opened on Wednesday. Mad Max: Fury Road fell 44% to £8m in fifth and now has a cume of $161m.
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