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The Weekend Round-up
- The Lego Movie 2 masterfully built on its box office total over the weekend, adding £2.472m to take its total to £7.3m. This is enough to retain the top spot, but does represent a drop of 39%, and is tracking 68% behind the first instalment. We are now in half-term for most schools however, meaning the film should be given a special boost, and kids have shown they will stay with the franchise through brick and thin.
- Instant Family jumped instantly into second place in its first weekend, grossing £2.469m, which is roughly the amount of money you’d need to pay me to adopt Mark Wahlberg’s daily workout routine.
- How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World dropped 30% in its second weekend to float down to third place with a new total of £11.4m. The franchise still has wings however, as the latest instalment is 20% ahead of How To Train Your Dragon 2, and should benefit greatly from half-term week.
- Alita: Battle Angel adds £1.4m to come in at number four, and is already on par with the final total of Ghost in the Shell (£5.7m), proving once and for all that angels are more popular with the British public than ghosts when it comes to otherworldly beings – bare this in mind when it comes to Halloween.
- Green Book completes the top five, driving solidly along with a new total of £5m, which likely includes a small BAFTA boost.
- Outside of the top 10, Happy Death Day 2U opened with £740k, with The Kid Who Would Be King following close behind with an opening total of £735k. If Beale Street Could Talk is now on a total £818.8k. The Favourite is now the highest grossing title released in 2019, with a total of £15m.
The overall box office is down 15% from last weekend and ranks 37th out of the latest 52 weekends. It is down 45% versus the same weekend last year, at which point Black Panther opened at No.1 with a 3-day total of £10.4m.
Next Weekend
- On The Basis of Sex is set to be one of the year's most inspiring and entertaining films. This is the powerful and timely true story of US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Felicity Jones) who led the fight against gender discrimination and blazed an unprecedented trail for equality.
- Cold Pursuit stars Liam Neeson in another action role. Welcome to Kehoe, it's -10 degrees and counting at this glitzy ski resort in the Rocky Mountains. The police aren't used to much action until the son of unassuming town snowplough driver, Nels Coxman, is murdered at the order of a flamboyant drug lord.
- Capernaum is the latest work from acclaimed director Nadine Labaki. Capernaum is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit, a battle cry for the forgotten, the unwanted and the lost that offers hope in the most unexpected of places.
The Buzz
Capernaum is the latest work from acclaimed director Nadine Labaki, and tells the story of a 12-year-old boy who sues his parents for neglect while serving a five-year sentence for a violent crime. Empire Magazine have given the film 4 stars, with Ian Freer writing “Capernaum is a picaresque journey through Beirut streets, shot through with harsh realities and touching tenderness. Nothing in Labaki’s previous two films — 2007’s Caramel and 2010’s Where Do We Go Now? — have prepared us for this: it’s tough and unflinching, but drenched in buckets of empathy.” Capernaum is released in UK cinemas on Friday.
Across The Pond
Alita: Battle Angel topped the box office in its opening weekend, with $34,3m, meaning The Lego Movie 2 slipped down to second place, but now has a cumulative total of $68.8m. Third place sees another new entry, with Isn’t It Romantic opening with $22.9m. What Men Want dropped two places to come fourth over the weekend, adding $12m, and the top five is completed by a third new entry, Happy Death Day 2U, which opened with $11m.