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The Weekend Round-up
Suicide Squad took the top spot for a second successive week, as the top four remained the same as last weekend. After a huge opening weekend, the DC Comics blockbuster fell a hefty 62% to £4.2m, bringing its 10-day total to £22.2m. For comparison, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice fell 67% on its second weekend, so Suicide Squad is holding up slightly better.
Finding Dory stayed in second, falling 35% to £2.6m and it has now banked £27.3m, which puts it above Ratatouille (£24.9m) and Wall-E (£22.9m) in the Pixar canon, and just behind A Bugs Life (£29.4m), which it should have overtaken by the end of this week. On the same weekend last year, Inside Out was on £27.4m, but that had been in cinemas an extra seven days.
After being hit by the success of Suicide Squad last week, Jason Bourne bounced back somewhat, falling 40% to £1.5m. That brings its total to £17.5m.
The BFG also stayed in the same spot as last weekend, falling 35% to £1.1m. That brings its total to £23.5m and with another three weeks of the school holidays still to go, there’s scope for a bit more yet.
Four new releases attempted to break into the top five this weekend, but Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates was the only one that managed it with two days of previews supporting its effort. The film opened with £1.1m, which included £370k from Wednesday and Thursday.
Outside of the top five, Pete’s Dragon opened in sixth and had the best Friday to Sunday total of the new entries, kicking off its run with £844k.
Of the remaining new entries, Nerve opened in seventh with £803k (including £196k from previews) and The Shallows opened in eighth with £801k, which included £91k from previews.
Overall the box office was down 34% from last weekend but up 15% from the same weekend last year, when the top four films were Pixels, Inside Out, Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Next Weekend
David Brent: Life on the Road is the big screen debut for one of the greatest of all sitcom characters. Ricky Gervais plays the hapless sales rep, who makes one last bid for music stardom. It will make you laugh, cry and cringe, sometimes all at the same time.
Lights Out is a low-budget horror produced by James Wan (The Conjuring 2: The Enfield Case). When her little brother, Martin, experiences the same events that once tested her sanity, Rebecca works to unlock the truth behind the terror, which brings her face to face with an entity that has an attachment to their mother, Sophie. It has proved successful in the US, where it has banked over $61m.
Nine Lives stars Kevin Spacey as a stuffy businessman who finds himself trapped inside the body of his family's cat. It’s a comedy. Swallows and Amazons is the latest adaptation of Arthur Ransome’s classic novel and features a strong British cast, including Kelly McDonald, Andrew Scott and Rafe Spall.
The Buzz
Hell or High Water is a western-thriller from David Mackenzie (Starred Up) and boasts a terrific cast, including Jeff Bridges, Chris Pine and Ben Foster. A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas. It opens in the UK on 9 September and has been receiving great reviews so far, boasting a score of 86 on Metacritic.
Richard Roeper in the Chicago Sun-Times is one of its many champions, saying: "with electrifying, graceful direction by David Mackenzie... a rich, darkly humorous and deeply insightful screenplay by Taylor Sheridan... and no fewer than four performances as good as anything I’ve seen onscreen this year, Hell or High Water is an instant classic modern-day western." It sounds like it’s not to be missed.
Across The Pond
Suicide Squad held on to the top spot, despite falling a chunky 67.4% to $43.5m. After 10 days in cinemas the DC Comics blockbuster has banked $222.6m. Sausage Party opened in second with a strong $34.2m, which is on a par with Ted 2 last year. Pete’s Dragon opened in third with $21.5m, which is a slight improvement on The BFG’s $18.8m opening weekend. Jason Bourne had a solid hold in fourth, falling 38.2% to $13.8m, which brings its total to $127m. Bad Moms completed the top five and had a terrific hold, falling just 18.9% to $11.3m, and has now banked $71.4m.
