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The Weekend Round-up
The Martian is still out on its own at the top of the box office, enjoying a terrific second weekend, falling just 21% (once previews are removed) to £3.9m and after eleven days in cinemas it has banked £13.2m. That’s a better second weekend than Interstellar, which managed £3.8m second weekend on its way to a £20.7m total..
Sicario opened in second with £1.6m, which included £220k from previews. That’s better than the £1.1m start Zero Dark Thirty made, and also better than the £1.4m that Denis Villeneuve’s previous film, Prisoners kicked off with in 2013.
The Walk opened in third with £795k, which included £268k from IMAX and PLF previews. It's a hugely entertaining film that makes great use of 3D and the big screen, so make sure you see it before it goes.
Legend fell to fourth but a drop of 33% is terrific for a film in its fifth week of release. It added £710k and has now grossed £16.7m to overtake The Imitation Game (£16.4m) to be distributor, StudioCanal’s second biggest film of all time.
The Intern completed the top five, with a strong hold, falling 31% (once previews are removed) to £507k, for a ten day total of £1.8m.
Outside of the top five Ethan Hawke and Emma Watson thriller, Regression, opened in ninth with £215k. That’s a disappointing result for a thriller from the director of the hugely successful Nicole Kidman chiller, The Others (£11.9m).
Overall, the box office was down 20% from last weekend and down 19% from the same weekend last year, when the top four spots were taken by Gone Girl, The Maze Runner, Annabelle and One Direction: Where We Are.
Next Weekend
Suffragette was the opening night gala of the London Film Festival last Wednesday and has so far received glowing reviews. Carey Mulligan puts in a potentially awards-worthy performance as the newest recruit to the Suffragette movement.
Crimson Peak opens on Friday and is the latest gothic horror-romance from Guillermo Del Toro. It stars Mia Wasikowska, Jessica Chastain and Tom Hiddleston and if you’ve seen either Pan’s Labyrinth or The Devil’s Backbone, both directed by Del Toro, you’ll know why it’s such a tantalising proposition.
The Program stars Ben Foster as Lance Armstrong and Chris O’Dowd as the journalist, David Walsh, who is determined to expose his cheating.
Pan goes nationwide next weekend, having previewed on Saturday and Sunday.
Hotel Transylvania also goes nationwide next weekend, having previewed the past two weekends. It’s the family film to beat this upcoming half-term holiday.
The Lobster is the latest from Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth, Alps) and is his first English language film. It looks to have his unique, offbeat sensibility and is set in a dystopian near future where single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in 45 days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
The Buzz
Brooklyn had its UK premiere on Monday at the May Fair Hotel gala at the BFI London Film Festival. Scott Feinberg of The Hollywood Reporter recently tweeted ‘I know I'm a few months late to the party on this one, but Brooklyn is one of my all-time favorite movies. Just wonderful.’ Don’t be late to the party when it’s released in the UK on 6 November.
Across The Pond
The Martian had a great second weekend, falling just 32% to $37m for a fantastic cume of $108.7m. It looks almost certain to crack the $200m mark. In second, Hotel Transylvania 2 also had a decent weekend, falling 39% to $20.4m and a cume of $116.9m. Pan opened in third with just $15.3m. There’s been an interesting difference in the response to the film from UK and US critics, with UK critics mostly liking the film and the US critics not. The Intern had another strong hold, falling 26% to $8.7m and has now grossed $49.6m. Sicario completed the top five with $7.6m for a cume of $26.9m.
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