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The Weekend Round-up
Black Panther maintains its tightly clawed grip on the UK box office, adding £3.7m for a new total of £35.4m, although this is a drop of 46%. Marvel’s last release, Thor: Ragnarok, was on £24.5m after 3 weeks and so Black Panther has already surpassed this. The film now seems a dead cert to overtake Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, which finished on £41m. Black Panther has now bested Captain America: Civil War’s three-week total of £33.2m, and looks to become one of the biggest non-Avengers Marvel titles of all time.
New release Red Sparrow comes straight in at number two with £1.8m, surpassing Jennifer Lawrence’s previous film mother! by 0.8m.
The Greatest Showman looks to have one of the greatest box office runs for a musical in recent memory, adding a further £1.3m to take its total to £35m, aided by the run of sing-a-long showings in recent weeks. Having surpassed La La Land’s total, the film Is saying look out 'cause here I come to Les Misérables’ final total of £40.8m.
Game Night, another new release, comes it at number four with a total of £1.1m. John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldsteins previous film Vacation grossed a final total of £1.5m and so Game Night looks to surpass that total easily within the coming weeks.
The top five was completed by Lady Bird, dropping 25% with a new total of £2.6m, adding £926k. Although coming away empty handed on the night, the film should benefit from Oscars buzz in the coming weeks.
Outside of the top 10, Aardman’s Early Man dropped 25%, adding £409k to take its total to £10m, Fifty Shades Freed took a massive drop of 71%, falling to 13th place and adding £347k, and Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle added £169.8k to its continually impressive box office run.
Overall, the box office was down 25% from last weekend and down 27% from the same weekend last year, when the top films were Logan, Viceroy’s House, The LEGO Batman Movie and Moonlight.
Next Weekend
You Were Never Really Here is the first film in seven years from acclaimed director Lynne Ramsay. A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.
Gringo is a dark comedy with dramatic intrigue. Gringo joyrides across the border into Mexico, where all is not as it seems for mild-mannered American businessman Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo).
Walk Like A Panther is a British comedy based around a group of 1980s wrestlers who are forced to don the lycra one last time when their beloved local pub is threatened with closure
Mom and Dad is the latest Nicholas Cage outfit and promises to see Cage go fully unhinged. A teenage girl and her little brother must survive a wild 24 hours during which a mass hysteria of unknown origins causes parents to turn violently on their own kids.
Sweet Country is a proud western set on the Northern Territory frontier where justice itself is put on trial, starring Sam Neill and Bryan Brown.
The Buzz
Mary Magdalene is a religious epic aimed at the arthouse crowd, featuring the knockout trio of Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix and Chiwetel Ejiofor. The film an authentic and humanistic portrait of one of the most enigmatic and misunderstood spiritual figures in history. The first reviews are in and has divided critics, with Variety calling it ‘Hushed, deliberate and realised with considerable care and beauty, the resulting film has its heart entirely in the right place’, whereas The Guardian has said ‘each of the big events seems weirdly low key and even anti-climactic.’ It’s out in the UK on 16 March.
Across The Pond
Black Panther maintains its top spot across the Atlantic, dropping 40% but adding $66.3m to take its total to $501m. The top three was completed by two new releases, with Jennifer Lawrence’s Red Sparrow grossing $16.8m in second place and the Bruce Willis-starring remake of Death Wish coming in at number three with $13m. Game Night fell 38% to come in at fourth place, adding $10.4m to reach a new cume of $33.2m. Peter Rabbit completed the top five, adding $10m for a new total of $84m, with a drop of 21.6%.