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The Weekend Round-up
- Toy Story 4 continued its box office buzz for the second week, with the rest of the box office not getting a bo peep at the top spot. With a drop of 38%, the Pixar masterpiece has now added a further £8.2m too take its running total to £26.9m.
- Money can’t buy you love or a ticket a ride but it can buy Yesterday second place at the UK box office this weekend, with the British public coming together to take its opening total to £2.91m, having the advantage of running for eight days a week. The romcom has posted a 96% positive recommendation rating on PostTrak, meaning we can expect a strong hold in coming weeks – despite this week’s weather forecast, which is saying nothing but here comes the sun.
- Aladdin fell to third place over the weekend, adding £622k in its sixth. The film now has a running total of £33.8m and remains the third highest grossing release this year.
- Men In Black International was down to fourth place in its third week, adding £515k to take its total to £5.99m. It now seems next to impossible for the title to beat Men In Black 3’s final total of £22.3m.
- The top five is completed by Secret Cinema’s Casino Royale tie-in, which grossed £358k.
- Outside of the top five, Avengers: Endgame continues to be inevitable, re-entering the top 10 in sixth place with the allure of extra footage.
The overall box office is down 25% from last weekend, ranking 32nd out of the latest 52 weekends. It remains up 98% versus the same weekend last year, when Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom remained at the top of the chart for the fourth consecutive weekend with £2.9m followed by Ocean's 8 also holding its No.2 position in its second weekend with £2.1m.
Next Weekend
- Midsommar Is Ari Aster’s follow up to Hereditary. What begins as a carefree summer holiday in a land of eternal sunlight takes a sinister turn when the insular villagers invite their guests to partake in festivities that render the pastoral paradise increasingly unnerving and viscerally disturbing
- The Queen’s Corgi could be the next animation smash hit.Rex is the Queen's Top Dog - a spoilt little corgi who lives a life of luxury in Buckingham Palace. But when Rex winds up in a London Dog's Home, surrounded by tough strays, he must learn that to become a true Top Dog, you have to earn it!
- Vita & Virginia is an historical drama based on true events, detailing the passionate relationship between literary trailblazer Virginia Woolf (Elizabeth Debicki), and enigmatic aristocrat Vita Sackville-West (Gemma Arterton).
- Anna is the latest work from Luc Besson. Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.
The Buzz
Having released the teaser trailer for Onward a few weeks ago, Pixar unveiled more information on their second animation of 2020 at CineEurope. Entitled Soul, the title takes us through ‘A journey from the streets of New York City to the cosmic realms, discovering the answers to life's most important questions.’ The animation is being directed by Pete Doctor, who is arguably Pixar’s best and most prestigious director, having helmed Up,Inside Out and Monsters Inc., the crème de la crème of Pixar. Soul is released in UK cinemas on 19 June 2020.
Across The Pond
Toy Story 4 topped the box office in the US in its second weekend, with a new total of $237m and a drop of 52% in its second weekend. Annabelle Comes Home opened in second place with $20m. Third place sees another new entry, with romcom Yesterday opening across the pond with $17m. Aladdin dropped one place to come in fourth this weekend, and now has a total of $306m. The top five was once again completed by The Secret Life of Pets 2, which added $7m to take its total to $131m.