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The Weekend Round-up
The top five is exactly the same as it was last weekend and there were no new entries in the top 15, as The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 became the first film since Les Misérables in 2013 to hold on to the top spot for four consecutive weekends. A drop of 43% to £1.3m, is a much shallower drop than the 52% Part 1 fell on its fourth weekend last year and, although it’s still tracking behind Part 1, it’s catching up. It now sits on £25.5m, and provided it can hold on to some screens with Star Wars imminent, it should add a bit more over the Christmas period.
Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur held on to second with £1.3m, just £13k behind The Hunger Games. After seventeen days in cinemas it has so far banked £6.7m.
SPECTRE stayed in third, falling 35% to £807k and now sits on £92m. It’s now less than £2m behind Avatar in the list of biggest films of all time and it’s looking increasingly likely it will get there.
Bridge Of Spies had another great hold in fourth, falling 28% to £783k, and after three weekends has now grossed £5.4m.
Last weekend’s highest new entry, Christmas With The Coopers, held on to fifth with the best hold of any film in the top 15. The seasonal ensemble comedy fell 11% (once previews are removed) to £468k and has now grossed £1.4m. It appears to have beaten Krampus and The Night Before to be the seasonal film of choice this Christmas.
With no new entries landing in the top 15, it was left to holdovers to deliver the box office and The Lady In The Van, Black Mass, Krampus, Carol and Brooklyn all had decent holds in the lower end of the chart.
On the quietest weekend of the last year, the calm before The Force Awakens, the box office was down 35% from last weekend and down 65% from the same weekend last year, when the top four spots were taken by The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies, Paddington, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 and Penguins Of Madagascar.
Next Weekend
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is released on Thursday. It’s kind of a big deal.
The Buzz
The Big Short has a dynamite cast (Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt) and a director with a proven commercial pedigree, albeit in comedy (Adam McKay). However, it’s felt a little like an unknown quantity, with McKay (Anchorman, Step Brothers, The Other Guys) moving into more serious territory, and a divisive story about the financial crisis. It opened in the US at the weekend and has received some terrific reviews, currently scoring 81 on Metacritic. It had a fantastic limited opening, delivering $720k from eight cinemas, for a cinema average of $90k, the second best of 2015. It opens in the UK on 22 January.
Across The Pond
Like in the UK, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 became the first film this year to top the box office for four successive weekends. It added $11.5m for a new total of $244.6m. In The Heart Of The Sea opened in second with $11m and The Good Dinosaur had a decent hold in third, falling 33% to $10.5m for a new cume of $89.5m. Creed had also had a strong hold, falling 33% to $10.1m, and has now banked an impressive $79.3m. Krampus completed the top five, adding $8.4m for a new total of $28.6m.
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