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The Weekend Round-up
X-men: Apocalypse retained top spot in its second week in the box office with £2.5m despite falling 65% since the previous week.
Disney’s Alice Through the Looking Glass (£2.2m) and Sony’s Money Monster (£820k) both opened and enter the top 10 in second and fourth respectively in their first week. Angry Birds is sandwiched in between in third place three weeks after release with £919k.
The Jungle Book completes the top five in its seventh week after release and falls off 46% with £779k.
Outside of the top five Captain America: Civil War fell one place to sixth followed by Bad Neighbours 2 in seventh spot in the lower part of the table.
Elsewhere Love and Friendship opened on £263k (including 17k from 10 previews) and entered in eighth followed by Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants which just crept into the top 10 in its first week.
Secret Cinema's 28 Days Later screening experience fell 1% down and the film appears in ninth place from seventh the previous week.
Next Weekend
Monday saw the release of Warcraft, the video game adaptation from Moon director Duncan Jones. An epic fantasy adventure film starring Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton and Dominic Cooper, Warcraft finds the realm of Azeroth on the brink of a war between its human civilisation and orc warriors who have invaded in search of a new home.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, the sequel to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (which grossed just shy of £14m in 2014), also opened in cinemas on Monday. This time around the Turtles find themselves in conflict with their enemy Shredder, who has teamed up with mad scientist Baxter Stockman to wreak more havoc, as well as having to contend with an even greater nemesis – the notorious Krang.
The Nice Guys teams up Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe in a film co-written and directed by Shane Black. Gosling and Crowe star as a mismatched pair of private detectives who are hired to find a missing girl in 1970s Los Angeles. The film has been favourably received by critics (70 on Metacritic) and went down a storm at this week’s DCM Tuesdays.
Me Before You is an adaptation of Jojo Moye’s best-selling book, starring Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin. Quirky and creative Louisa "Lou" Clark’s normally cheery outlook on life is tested when she takes the job of carer and companion to Will Traynor, a rich young banker who has recently become wheelchair bound. Lou is determined to show Will that life is still worth living and they embark on a series of adventures that brings them closer than they could have ever first imagined. Bring your tissues for what is bound to be an emotional journey!
Across the Pond
Three-day Memorial Day weekend results are in and X-Men: Apocalypse led the weekend charge followed by Disney's Alice Through the Looking Glass, which fell well short of what the studio was hoping for. That said, Disney's coffers aren't exactly barren as the studio was expected to pass $4 billion at the global box office.