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The Weekend Round-up
War Craft: The Beginning opened on Bank Holiday Monday (31 June) and held out to claim top spot into the weekend with £3.6m, which included just over £2m from 467 previews. The film muscled out the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as the sequel to 2014’s previous release, Out of the Shadows, took £3.5m, including £2m from previews on the last weekend before Euro 2016 kicks off.
Another new entry over the weekend was Me Before You, which took third spot with a total of £1.8m. Alice Through the Looking Glass and X-Men: Apocalypse complete the top five in fourth and fifth respectively.
The Nice Guys, featuring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling, opened on Friday 3 June and went down a storm at our latest DCM Tuesdays event three days before. The film took in just over £1m when it came to the crunch and ended the weekend as the sixth-best film in the UK.
Angry Birds and The Jungle Book fell 8% and 27% respectively and sit in seventh and eighth followed by Money Monster, which fell 56% in its second week.
Another new entry, Housefull 3, completes the top 10 this week and the third instalment of the Indian comedy series sees three men try to convince a father that they are a good fit for his daughters.
Next Weekend
The Boss sees comedy superstar Melissa McCarthy reunite with director (and husband) Ben Falcone after previously joining forces for 2014’s Tammy. This time McCarthy is playing Michelle Darnell, “a ruthless businesswoman who is sent to prison for insider trading. When she emerges from behind bars ready to rebrand herself as America’s latest sweetheart not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget”.
Mother’s Day is a who’s who of American leading ladies with Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts and Kate Hudson all in starring roles. The latest of 81 year-old director Garry Marshall’s holiday themed movies, this entry follows the intertwining stories of three mothers in the week leading up to Mother’s Day. Jason Sudeikis and British comedian Jack Whitehall also star alongside the trio of female headliners.
The Buzz
Hot off directing one of the biggest films of 2016 (Fast & Furious 7), James Wan returns with The Conjuring 2 which finds stars Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga heading to Enfield for another paranormal investigation. The Warrens come to North London to help a single mother who is raising four children alone in a house plagued with malicious spirits. Back in 2013 The Conjuring took the UK box office by storm, grossing just over £10m, a brilliant achievement for a horror film. The second looks set to follow up strongly having received positive early critical acclaim. Ian Sandwell, who writes for Screen Daily and Digitalspy tweeted: “The Conjuring 2 is a strong, often creepy sequel, thanks to excellent sound design and memorable set pieces. It may be over two hours long yet it rarely lets up right through to its blood-and-thunder climax”. The Conjuring 2 arrives in UK cinemas on Monday.
Across the Pond
The first weekend in June 2016 played out mostly as expected, with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows taking the #1 spot followed by last weekend's first place finisher, X-Men: Apocalypse. Warner's Me Before You, however, did manage to break out well above expectations while Universal's Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping may have received great reviews, but couldn't find much of an audience.