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The Weekend Box Office Round-up
On a great weekend for the box office, Sing 2 proved that the UK public still love a big animation. The musical blockbuster opened with £6.9m, the third highest opening of any film since cinemas re-opened. Only No Time To Die and Spider-Man: No Way Home have opened bigger. It’s also by far the biggest opening for an animated film since cinemas re-opened, The Addams Family 2 the previous holder of that honour, with £2m. The first Sing opened with a Friday to Sunday total of £6.2m, so Sing 2 has surpassed that comfortably. Sing finished on £29.5m, and with half term in two weeks and no major family film released until 1 April, Sing 2 has to be looking at a similar total, if not more.
Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast stayed in second with £1.9m. The drop off once previews are removed is a hugely encouraging 14%, and it performed strongly in midweek showings last week, which suggests it is going to comfortably cross £10m. With the BAFTA nominations released this Thursday, it should experience a bump next week and a total north of £15m is not out of the question.
Spider-Man: No Way Home fell to third but yet again posted a terrific hold, falling just 24% to £1.8m. That takes its total over the £90m mark, making it only the sixth film in history to achieve that mark. It now looks like No Time To Die’s total of £96.7m may not be out of reach, particularly with half term in two weeks and still over a month until The Batman is released. Just a reminder that No Time To Die is the third highest grossing film in UK & Ireland history!
Scream fell to fourth, adding £788k, a drop of just 37% from last weekend. That takes its total to £6.2m, and it has sailed past the final total of Scream 4, which finished on £5.6m. Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley completed the top five, adding £331k for a new total of £1.2m.
Outside of the top five, Pedro Almodovar’s Parallel Mothers opened in sixth with £302k, which includes £55k from previews. Almodovar films are usually some of the best performing international films in UK cinemas, with his last film, 2019’s Pain And Glory, opening with £321k and finishing with £1.5m.
Overall the box office is up a whopping 55% from last weekend.
Next Weekend
- Moonfall is a documentary about the once in a generation event where the moon collides with the earth. Not really, it’s a bonkers big budget sci-fi from Roland Emmerich (Independence Day). The Moon is knocked from its orbit by an unknown force and put onto a collision course with Earth. Two astronauts and a conspiracy theorist work together to attempt to avert disaster and discover that the Moon is not what it seems. Halle Berry, Michael Pena and Patrick Wilson star. It’s in cinemas on Thursday.
- Jackass Forever is about old men who really should know better. After 11 years, the Jackass crew is back for their final crusade.
- The Eyes Of Tammy Faye is an intimate look at the extraordinary rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield star.
- The Souvenir: Part II is a sequel to Joanna Hogg’s critically lauded first film. In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately constructed fiction. Honor Swinton Byrne and Richard Ayoade star.
Across The Pond
Spider-Man: No Way Home took the top spot for the sixth time, falling just 22% from last weekend to $11m, which takes its total to a ridiculous $735.9m. It’s closing in on Avatar’s total of $760.5m, which is the third highest grossing film of all time. Scream came in second, posting a good hold, falling 40% to $7.4m and a new total of $62.1m. Sing 2 came in third with $4.8m, which takes its total to $134.5m. Redeeming Love came in fourth, adding $1.9m for a new total of $6.5m. The King's Man completed the top five, adding $1.8m for a new total of $34m.