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Box Office Round-up
A Minecraft Movie continued its hugely impressive run adding £2.5m, down 53% from last weekend, which takes it over the £50m mark to a HUGE £51.7m. Two years ago The Super Mario Bros Movie was huge across April and finished its run with £54.9m, so A Minecraft Movie is building to a total comfortably north of that.
Sinners stayed in second and achieved the rare feat of almost matching last weekend’s total, adding £2.4m for a new total of £7.3m. This is the fourth collaboration between Michael B. Jordan in a lead role, and Ryan Coogler as filmmaker. 2016’s Creed opened with £2.2m, and finished with a total of £5.9m, so Sinners has flown past that and has Creed II’s (produced, not directed by Coogler) final total of £10.1m in its sights.
Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge Of The Sith received a 20th anniversary re-release this weekend and grossed a pretty impressive £1.8m, making it the biggest re-release for quite some time. The 25th anniversary re-release of Titanic grossed £2.5m in 2023 but Revenge Of The Sith looks like it will surpass that. Last year, The Phantom Menace received a re-release around the same time and grossed £1.7m, so Revenge Of The Sith has already surpassed that. It’s reportedly only in cinemas for six days, so catch it before Thursday if you want to see it.
The Accountant 2 opened in fourth with £907k. This is a disappointing opening for a sequel to a well-liked first film. The first film opened with £1.6m in November 2016 and finished its run with £5.3m, so this second film is falling well short of that.
Event cinema rounded out the top five, as Pink Floyd At Pompeii – MCMLXXII opened with £683k, which includes £395k from previews. This is a 1972 concert film featuring the English rock group Pink Floyd performing at the ancient Roman amphitheatre in Pompeii, Italy.
Outside of the top five, another videogame adaptation Until Dawn opened in sixth with £566k. Meanwhile, The Penguin Lessons has crossed the £2m mark in seventh and is now up to £2.2m, and Thudarum is the latest South Asian release to crack the top 10, opening with £289k in ninth.
Next Weekend
Thunderbolts* is the latest film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. After finding themselves ensnared in a death trap, an unconventional team of antiheroes must embark on a dangerous mission that will force them to confront the darkest corners of their pasts. It’s in cinemas from Thursday.
Bluey At The Cinema: Let’s Play Chef Collection sees the hugely popular Australian canine return to cinemas.
The Buzz
Weapons is the second film from Zach Cregger, after his breakout hit Barbarian. It looks like a step-up from Barbarian as it’s an ambitious interrelated, multi-story horror epic about the disappearance of high school students in a small town. A top cast has lined up for it too, including Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, Alden Ehrenreich and Benedict Wong. It looks like being one of the stand-out thrillers of H2 and one of the best ways to reach 16-34 adults this August. Here’s the intriguing first trailer: https://youtu.be/E0bZHE7xkOE?feature=shared
Across The Pond
Sinners posted one of the best holds in years, as it fell just 6% to $45m on its second weekend. That takes its total after 10 days in cinemas to $122.5m, and a total north of $250m looks on – an incredible result for an original R-rated movie. The re-release of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge Of The Sith opened in second with a terrific $25.2m, while The Accountant 2 was only just behind, opening with an impressive $24.5m. A Minecraft Movie fell to fourth but still had a good weekend, adding $22.7m for a huge total of $380m. Until Dawn rounded out the top five, opening with $8m.