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The Weekend Round-up
- Stan & Ollie topped the box office in its first week with a double act of millions, picking up a hardy laurel of £2.6m. This is already within touching distance of Coogan and O’Reilly’s last big screen team up, Holmes & Watson’s, cumulative total.
- The Favourite continues to be a favourite of UK cinemagoers, adding £2.4m to take its total to a royal £8.3m thanks to a post-Golden Globes boost.
- I may have run out of puns to use for the film , but enthusiasm for Mary Poppins Returns has not run out in its fourth weekend, with the film adding £2.3m to take its total to £38.3m. The musical adventure now looks unlikely to topple Beauty and The Beast’s mammoth £72m, but is charting well ahead of other recent live-action Disney releases. The Jungle Book finished its run on £46m back in 2016, and so Mary Poppins Returns should be aiming its umbrella towards that total in the coming weeks.
- Aquaman continues to be a quietly successful package, with its total breaching the £20m mark after adding £1.2m over the weekend, which coincidentally is also the number of abs on Jason Momoa. This is just shy of Wonder Woman’s final total of £22.1m, and has the potential to come within touching distance of Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice’s final total of £36.6m.
- Bumblebee finishes the weekend on £10.7m, adding £1m to overtake Transformers: The Last Knight’s final total of £9.5m, finally answering lingering questions of whether John Cena is a better actor than Anthony Hopkins.
- Outside of the top five, Colette opened with a solid £788k and The Upside opened just below this with £681k, whereas Bohemian Rhapsody continues to add more money than there are Queen songs to reference, and now has a cumulative total of £49.6m.
Overall, the box office is down 14% from last weekend and ranks 29th out of the latest 52 weekends. It is down 26% versus the same weekend last year, at which point Darkest Hour opened at No.1 with £4m, 2019 is currently 11% behind 2018 after two weekends.
Next Weekend
- Mary Queen of Scots stars Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie, and explores the turbulent life of the charismatic Mary Stuart. Queen of France at 16 and widowed at 18, Mary defies pressure to remarry. Instead, she returns to her native Scotland to reclaim her rightful throne.
- Beautiful Boy is based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David (Carell) and Nic Sheff (Chalamet), and chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse, and recovery in a family coping with addiction.
- Glass sees M. Night Shyamalan bring together the narratives of two of his standout originals--2000's Unbreakable and 2017’s Split--in one explosive, all-new comic-book thriller:
The Buzz
The Kid Who Would Be King is Joe Cornish’s follow up to 2011’s Attack The Block and is a modern, inner-city but childish take on the Arthurian legend. David Ehrlich writes of the film in IndieWire ‘By liberating a new generation from the lore they were taught... "The Kid Who Would Be King" empowers its audience to make the world their own’, whereas John DeFore describes the film as ‘A charming family-friendly adventure’ in the Hollywood Reporter. The Kid Who Would Be King opens on 15 February.
Across The Pond
The Upside topped the box office across the pond last weekend, opening with a strong $20m in its first week. Aquaman fell down to second place, adding $17.4m to take its total to $287.9m. Third place sees another new entry, with A Dog’s Way Home opening with $11.25m, whereas Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse crawled up to fourth place, adding an extra $9m to take its total to $147.8m. The top five was completed by Escape Room, which added $8.9m to take its total to $32m in its second week.