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Box Office Round-up
The Garfield Movie opened in the top spot with £2.1m, which includes £659k from previews last weekend. It added a further £715k on bank holiday Monday, easily its biggest day of the weekend, which takes its total to £2.8m.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga has been receiving terrific reviews and managed £2m across its opening weekend. It added a further £604k on Monday for a four-day total of £2.6m. Hopefully word-of-mouth will continue to boost numbers as PostTrak audiences gave the film 4.5 stars out of 5 and an 88% Total Positive rating.
John Krasinski’s all-star IF is in third but posted a great hold, falling just 9% from Friday to Sunday with £1.6m. It then had a bumper bank holiday Monday, adding £911k for a four-day total of £2.5m, which is already more than it grossed across the whole of last week. Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile finished its run with £13.1m, so that’s a good target for IF.
Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes fell to fourth but also posted a strong hold, falling 28% to £1.6m. It added a further £640k on Monday for a new total of £11.1m. As a 12A blockbuster, it should be a good draw for half-term audiences.
The Fall Guy rounded out the top five adding £753k, which is down just 15% from last weekend. It added a further £307k on Monday, comfortably its best day of the weekend, which takes its total to £9.9m. Over the next week it should overtake the final totals of The Lost City (£10.7m) and Bullet Train (£11m).
Outside of the top five, Turbo is the latest South Asian release to crack the top 10, opening with £152k, which includes £65k from previews. It added £19k on Monday for a new total of £171k. Hong Kong action film Twilight Of The Warrior opened in ninth with £107k.
Next Weekend
Sting is not a biopic of Gordon Sumner, it’s a brand new horror about a giant spider. After raising an unnervingly talented spider in secret, 12-year-old Charlotte must face the facts about her pet, and fight for her family's survival when the once-charming creature rapidly transforms into a giant, flesh-eating monster.
The Crow (30th Anniversary) is a re-release of the cult thriller that receives a re-imagining in August. Brandon Lee stars as a man who is who is murdered and comes back to life as an undead avenger of his and his fiancée's murder.
Young Woman And The Sea tells the story of competitive swimmer Trudy Ederle, who, in 1926, was the first woman to ever swim across the English Channel. Daisy Ridley stars.
Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban is a re-release of the third, often called the best, of the Harry Potter films.
The Buzz
Colleen Hoover’s It Ends With Us is a romantic drama starring Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. Adapted from the best selling Colleen Hoover novel which has become something of a sensation and has reportedly over 1 billion tags on TikTok (source: Wikipedia). In the book, Lily (Lively) overcomes a traumatic childhood to embark on a new life. A chance meeting with a neurosurgeon sparks a connection but Lily begins to see sides of him that remind her of her parents' relationship. It’s one of the best films to reach 16-34 women in H2 and it’s in cinemas from 9 August.
Across The Pond
On the Memorial Day holiday weekend Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga opened in the top spot with $26.3m, which is some way down on the $45.4m Mad Max: Fury Road opened with. The Garfield Movie was just behind in second with $24m. IF added $16.1m for a new total of $58.7m, while Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes added $13.4m, a drop of 47% from last weekend, for a new total of $122.8m. The Fall Guy rounded out the top five, posting a strong hold – falling just 28% to $6m for a new total of $72.3m.