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The Weekend Round-up
War for the Planet of the Apes opened in the top spot with £7.2m, which includes £2m from 3D previews last week. The last film in the series, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes opened with £8.7m in 2014 which included £1.6m from previews.
Despicable Me 3 stayed in second and had a solid hold, falling 27% to £3.8m. That brings its total to £25.6m and while it’s still tracking slightly behind Minions, with the school holidays starting shortly, there is a lot more to come.
Last week’s number one, Spider-Man: Homecoming fell to third, adding £3.7m for a new cume of £16.8m. So far it is performing very similarly to The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which at the same stage of its run was on £16.5m. That film finished on £24.1m, but hopefully the impending school holidays can see a boost to Homecoming’s total.
Pixar’s 2017 offering, Cars 3, opened in fourth with £2.6m. The first Cars film opened with £2.7m in 2006, while the sequel, Cars 2 opened with £3.5m in 2011. Both those films crossed the £15m mark, with the first Cars the current best performer, finishing on £16.5m.
Baby Driver had another solid weekend, falling 30% to £977k. That takes its total to £8.8m and it is now director, Edgar Wright’s second best performing film, overtaking The World’s End’s £8.7m.
Just outside the top five, Sofia Coppola’s Cannes award-winning The Beguiled opened in sixth with £415k (including £27k from previews), which is Coppola’s second best opening in the UK, behind Lost in Translation.
Overall the box office was up 8% from last weekend and up 17% from the same weekend last year, when the top four films were Ghostbusters, Ice Age: Collision Course, The Secret Life of Pets and the Legend of Tarzan.
Next Weekend
Dunkirk is the highly anticipated Second World War epic from Christopher Nolan (Inception, The Dark Knight trilogy). Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, Canada, and France are surrounded by the German army and evacuated during a fierce battle. It stars Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance and Harry Styles and opens around the UK on Friday.
The Buzz
Girls Trip is a comedy starring Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith as four lifelong friends who travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Festival. While there, sisterhoods are rekindled and wild sides are rediscovered. It opens in the UK on 26 July and has been receiving very positive reviews stateside, with Indiewire saying it ‘nails laugh after laugh’, while The Hollywood Reporter said ‘there's too much dizzy pleasure here to get hung up on the flaws’.
Across the Pond
War for the Planet of the Apes topped the box office with $56.5m, which is down from the $72.6m Dawn of the Planet of the Apes opened with. Spider-Man: Homecoming fell to second and dropped a chunky 61% to $45.2m, which takes its total to $208.3m in its first 10 days of release. Despicable Me 3 came in third, adding $18.9m; its domestic cume is now just shy of $188m. Baby Driver keeps on driving, falling just 33% to $8.8m, which brings its total to $73.1m. The Big Sick completed the top five, adding $7.6m, which brings its total to $16m.