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The Weekend Round-up
Straight Outta Compton held on to the top spot, adding £1.37m for a total cume of £5.8m as it attempts to overtake The Italian Job’s £7.6m result as Director, F. Gary Gray’s best-ever UK result.
Inside Out continues its strong run, adding an extra £731k for a massive cume of £36m. It’s currently the fourth highest grossing original animation of all time, and is well-placed to overtake Finding Nemo (£37.5m) and Monsters Inc (£37.9m) by the end of its run. Indicative of how strong 2015 has been at the UK box office, Inside Out currently ranks as the fifth biggest release of the year to date. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes was 2014’s fifth biggest release with £32.7m.
No Escape was a new entry in third, delivering £638k across the weekend (including £31.9k from previews).
Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation just keeps on delivering, adding £510k to cross the £20m mark in its sixth week of play, reaching £20.1m.
Me And Earl And The Dying Girl completed the top five, opening with £432k, including £84,901 from previews.
Outside of the top five, The Transporter Refuelled opened in seventh with £353k, while other new entry, American Ultra, opened in eighth with £347k.
Overall, the box office was down 34% from last weekend and down 12% from the same weekend last year, when the top four films were Sex Tape, Lucy, Before I Go To Sleep and The Hundred-Foot Journey.
This Week
Legend is the highly anticipated drama that sees Tom Hardy play both Kray Twins.
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials is out on Thursday. The first film, Maze Runner, was the seventh highest grossing debut in September 2014, making $340m worldwide on its $34m budget, with it taking £8.9m alone at the UK Box Office.
Across The Pond
Faith-based family drama, War Room climbed to the top of the box office in its second week with $9.5m for a terrific cume of $24.8m. Straight Outta Compton dropped one place to second after spending three weeks in the top spot, scoring $8.65m for a total of $147.6m. A Walk in the Woods, an adaptation of a book by travel writer Bill Bryson starring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte, opened in third with $8.25m. The Transporter Refuelled took fourth place, opening with $7.35, while Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation had yet another good hold adding $7.24m and completing the top five.
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