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The Weekend Round-up
- Tenet topped the box office for the fifth successive weekend, the only film this year to top the box office for so long, with 1917 managing four weekends in the top spot. Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi spectacular added £649k, a drop of just 19% from last weekend. That’s its strongest hold to date and takes its total to just a few thousand pounds away from £15m. It’s now the sixth biggest film of 2020 and the fifth biggest film released this year, with Little Women, currently the third biggest film of 2020, released on Boxing day 2019.
- The other big post-lockdown success story After We Collided, posted an even better hold than Tenet, falling just 14% to £514k. It has now overtaken Onward to become the second biggest film, behind Tenet, since cinemas re-opened with £2.6m. Bill and Ted Face The Music remains in third sport, adding £217k, a drop of 32% from last weekend. That takes its total after 12 days in cinemas to £835k.
- Once again proving how much of a draw cinema is for families on a weekend with inclement weather, Onward increased on last weekend’s total by 48% to £126k. That takes the Pixar adventure’s total to £7.3m, £2m of which has been since cinemas re-opened.
- The New Mutants completed the top five, adding £93k, a drop of just 13% taking is total to £1.5m.
- Outside of the top five, there was only one new entry in the top 10, crime comedy Schemers, which opened win tenth with £34k.
The top 15 totalled £2m, which is down 20% from last weekend but the overall box office was down just 11% from last weekend.
Next Weekend
- On The Rocks is the new film from Sofia Coppola (Lost In Translation). Rashida Jones plays a young mother who reconnects with her larger-than-life playboy father (Bill Murray) on an adventure through New York.