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The Weekend Round-up
The Revenant held on to the top spot for the third successive weekend, adding another £2.3m for a new cume of £16.1m. It’s still tracking ahead of The Wolf Of Wall Street, which added £2.4m on its third weekend for a cume of £15m. If Leonardo DiCaprio wins the BAFTA and Oscar as expected, The Revenant should be around for a good while longer too.
Dirty Grandpa was the highest new entry in second, kicking off its run with £2m, which included £605k from previews.
Star Wars: The Force Awakens is still holding up well in third, falling just 33% to £1.3m, and it’s approaching the £120m mark on £119.4m. With February half term on the horizon, it could hit £125m.
Ride Along 2 also had a solid weekend, adding £1.3m for a new cume of £4.2m. After just 10 days in cinemas it has overtaken the final total of the first Ride Along film (£4.2m).
Another new entry, Spotlight completed the top five, kicking off its run with £1.1m. It only opened at 241 locations, and delivered comfortably the biggest location average in the top 15 (once Dirty Grandpa’s previews are removed), which means it could well be expanding to more locations next weekend.
Outside of the top five, The Big Short fell just 23% (once previews are removed) to £960k, for a new cume of £3m.
Family animation, Capture The Flag opened in seventh with £775k (including £275k from previews).
Overall, the box office was down 14% from last weekend and down 15% from the same weekend last year, when the top four films were Big Hero 6, Kingsman: The Secret Service, American Sniper and The Theory Of Everything.
Next Weekend
Goosebumps opens on Friday. A teenager teams up with the daughter of young adult horror author R. L. Stine after the writer's imaginary demons are set free on the town of Madison, Delaware. It previewed on Saturday and Sunday this past weekend and banked almost £1m, so a successful run looks a given.
Dad’s Army is the new big screen incarnation of the classic BBC sitcom, that was named the 13th British television show ever by the BFI in 2000. Toby Jones plays Captain Mainwaring in this new version, as the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard platoon deal with a visiting female journalist and a German spy, as World War II draws to its conclusion.
Trumbo stars an Oscar-nominated Bryan Cranston as Dalton Trumbo, who in 1947 was Hollywood's top screenwriter, until he and other artists were jailed and blacklisted for their political beliefs.
Zoolander 2 previews on Saturday and Sunday, before opening wide the following Friday (12 February).
The Buzz
Jack Black returns as the awesome Po in Kung Fu Panda 3. It opened in the US this past weekend and has had solid reviews, scoring 66 on Metacritic. It’s opening weekend of $41m is the highest for an animated film in January, and hopefully it’ll hit the mark in the UK too when it opens on 11 March, with previews the weekend before.
Across The Pond
Kung Fu Panda 3 delivered the biggest January opening for an animated film of all time, kicking off its run with $41.3m. The Revenant had another strong hold in second, falling just 20% to $12.8m, and has now grossed a strong $138.6m. Star Wars: The Force Awakens, also had a great hold, falling 21% to $11.1m, as it closes in on $900m, with a new total of $895.8m. Disney’s The Finest Hours opened with $10.3m in fourth and Ride Along 2 completed the top five, adding $8.4m for a new cume of $70.9m.
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