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| Author | Tom Linay |
| Categories | box Office |
The Weekend Round-up
- The House With A Clock In Its Walls opened in the top spot, with an impressive £3.4m, including £1.1m from previews. As an all-ages scare-fest it looks similar to 2016’s Goosebumps, also starring Jack Black, which opened with £2.6m, including £1m from previews. That film finished on £9m, and The House With A Clock In Its Walls will be looking at cracking the £10m mark.
- Twisty comic-thriller, A Simple Favour opened in second with £1.6m, which includes £303k from previews. This is a real change of tone for director, Paul Feig, who is better known for directing hit comedies, Bridesmaids, Spy and The Heat, so comparatives are not immediately obvious but of stylish thrillers with female leads in 2018, Red Sparrow opened slightly higher with £1.8m, including £167k from previews.
- Crazy Rich Asians stayed in third, posting a strong hold – falling 29% to £1.1m. That takes its 10-day total to £3.6m.
- King Of Thieves also posted a strong hold, falling just 27% to £1.1m. In the race with Crazy Rich Asians, its 10-day total is £3.7m, after performing more strongly during midweek showings last week.
- The Nun completed the top five, adding £1m for a new total of £9.5m. It has now surpassed the lifetime total of both Annabelle films, and is closing in on the two Conjuring films, which finished on £10.4m (The Conjuring) and £11m (The Conjuring 2).
- Outside of the top five, Mark Wahlberg action-thriller Mile 22 opened in sixth with £796k, which included £237k from previews. This is the fourth collaboration between Wahlberg and director, Peter Berg, after Lone Survivor, Deepwater Horizon and Patriot’s Day, and Mile 22 has delivered the lowest Friday to Sunday total of the four films.
Overall, the box office was down 15% from last weekend and down 20% from the same weekend last year, when the top films were Kingsman: The Golden Circle, It, Victoria & Abdul, and mother!.
Next Weekend
- Night School is a comedy starring Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish. A group of troublemakers are forced to attend night school in hope that they'll pass the GED exam to finish high school.
- The Wife is a drama starring Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce. A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
The Buzz
Overlord is the J.J. Abrams produced nazi-zombie horror you’ve been waiting for. It premiered at Fantastic Film Fest in Austin at the weekend and has received some strong reviews. Germain Lussier of io9 said ‘Overlord is a blast. It’s a men-on-a-mission, behind-enemy-lines, one-goal WW2 movie, with creepy creature stuff spread throughout. Good characters, great set pieces, a ton of fun.’ Slash Film said ‘are you ready for a sensational, Bloodcurdling, Gnarly Nazi Zombie Flick’, while IndieWire said it’s ‘intense, ravishing, and surprisingly deep.’ It’s in cinemas on 7 November.
Across The Pond
The House with a Clock in Its Walls topped the box office in the US too, with $26.6m. A Simple Favour had a good hold in second, falling 36% to $10.3m, which takes its total to $32.3m. The Nun fell to third, adding $9m, which takes its total over $100m. It now sits on $100.9m. The Predator fell 63% to $9.2m, which gives it a 10 day total of $40.9m. Crazy Rich Asians completed the top five, falling 25% to $6.3m and a new total of $159.3m.