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The Weekend Box Office Round-up
Sing 2 had a barnstorming opening last weekend and then followed it up with a terrific hold this weekend, falling just 25% to £5.1m. That takes its total after just 10 days in cinemas to £13m, and it’s already the highest grossing animated title since cinemas re-opened in May last year. That also makes it the highest grossing animated title since Frozen 2! With half term week still to come and Sing 2 the only major family option, it should power on to well beyond £20m in the next couple of weeks.
Firmly in place in second, like a stapled body part, Jackass Forever is this week’s highest new entry, opening with £2.1m. That’s the highest opening for the series, surpassing the £1.7m Jackass 3D opened with in 2010. Jackass films’ final totals have ranged from £1.7m for Jackass: Number Two, to £5.6m for Jackass 3D. Jackass Forever looks like it will set a new benchmark for the series.
Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast fell to third but again posted a great hold, falling 23% to £1.5m. That takes its total after three weekends in cinemas to £9m and with the Oscar nominations announced Tuesday lunchtime, it will be hoping for a further boost this week. It will have competition in cinemas this coming weekend from another Kenneth Branagh film, in the form of Death On The Nile.
Moonfall was another new entry in fourth with £1.2m, which includes £146k from Thursday previews. Director Roland Emmerich has been the foremost purveyor of far-fetched disaster films over the last 30 years, with his previous work including mega-hits 1996’s Independence Day, and 2004’s The Day After Tomorrow, which both grossed over £25m. While 2009’s 2012 and 1998’s Godzilla have also been big hits, both grossing over £16m. Sadly Moonfall isn’t going to do those sort of numbers but maybe the subject matter was a little too close to home?
Spider-Man: No Way Home completed the top five, adding £1.2m for new total of £91.8m. It’s now less than £5m behind No Time To Die, and it’s another film that should do well across the half term week.
Outside of the top five, anime title BELLE opened in night with £152k, which includes £31k from previews. Anime seems to be growing in popularity in the UK with BELLE joining the likes of May’s Demon Slayer: Mugen Train and October’s My Hero Academia: World Heroes’ Mission all proving minor hits in the last year.
Overall the box office was down 5% from last weekend.
Next Weekend
- Uncharted is an adaptation of the hugely popular video game series. Tom Holland stars as street-smart Nathan Drake who is recruited by seasoned treasure hunter Victor "Sully" Sullivan to recover a fortune amassed by Ferdinand Magellan and lost 500 years ago by the House of Moncada. Mark Wahlberg and Antonio Banderas co-star.
- Marry Me is a romantic comedy starring Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson. Lopez plays music superstar Kat Valdez, who is getting married to musician Bastian before a global audience of fans. But when Kat learns, seconds before her vows, that Bastian has been unfaithful, she decides to marry Charlie, a stranger in the crowd, instead. Seriously.
- Death On The Nile sees Kenneth Branagh return as Hercule Poirot alongside the most ridiculous moustache in cinema. While on vacation on the Nile, Poirot must investigate the murder of a young heiress. Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders co-star alongside some other actors.
- Flee is a wonderful animated documentary. It tells the extraordinary true story of a man, Amin, on the verge of marriage which compels him to reveal his hidden past for the first time. It has been nominated for two BAFTAs.
- The Beatles: Get Back – The Rooftop Concert is the full rooftop concert from The Beatles: Get Back in full.
Across The Pond
Jackass Forever opened in the top spot in the US with $23.5m, ahead of Moonfall, which opened in second with $10m. Spider-Man: No Way Home came in third, adding $9.6m for a new total of $749m, and it’s just $11m behind Avatar, the third highest grossing film of all time in North America. Scream came in fourth, adding $4.7m for a new total of $68.9m. Sing 2 completed the top five, adding $4.2m for a new total of $139.6m.