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Box Office Round-up
John Wick: Chapter 4 opened in the top spot with a terrific £5.3m, which includes £530k from Thursday previews. That’s easily a series best, with John Wick: Chapter 3: Parabellum opening with £3.6m in 2019. In terms of final totals, the first John Wick finished on £1.6m, Chapter Two finished on £6m and Chapter 3: Parabellum finished on £10.4m, so this fourth instalment looks like setting another series best total. Word-of-mouth appears to be good too with Comscore’s PostTrak exit polling scoring the film 4.5 stars and a 91% Total Positive reaction.
Shazam! Fury Of The Gods fell to second adding £1.1m, a drop of 54% from last weekend. That takes its total after 10 days in cinemas to £4.1m, which is only slightly more than the opening weekend of the first Shazam! (£3.9m). That film finished on £13.4m and it looks like this sequel will not get much more than half that total.
Creed III added £731k, a drop of 41% from last weekend. That takes its total to £12.8m and it has now more than doubled the final total of the first Creed (£5.9m). With the school holidays starting next week it should get up towards £14m.
Scream VI fell to fourth, adding £598k, which is a healthy drop of 39% from last weekend. That takes its total after 18 days in cinemas to £6.3m and it’s less than £1.4m behind the final total of last year’s Scream (£7.6m).
Allelujah completed the top five, adding £494k, a drop of 33% from last weekend. It performed much more strongly midweek last week, suggesting that its reaching its intended older audience. After 10 days in cinemas it’s over £2m and should be close to £3m by the end of this week.
Outside of the top five, event cinema title Louis Tomlinson: All Of Those Voices opened in eighth with £187k, while comedy 80 For Brady opened in ninth with £159k, which includes £25k from previews.
The box office is up 24% from last weekend and up 115% from the same weekend last year.
Next Weekend
Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves is a new adaptation of the hugely popular table top role playing game. A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people. The cast includes Chris Pine, Michelle Rodriguez and Hugh Grant.
Mummies is a new animation timed for the Easter holidays. It follows three mummies as they end up in present-day London and embark on a journey in search of an old ring belonging to the Royal Family, stolen by the ambitious archaeologist Lord Carnaby.
The Buzz
The Little Mermaid is set to be one of the summer’s biggest films and the first full trailer has recently launched. Directed by Rob Marshall (Chicago, Mary Poppins Returns, Into The Woods), the classic tale of a young mermaid who makes a deal with a sea witch to trade her beautiful voice for human legs so she can discover the world above water and impress a prince, is one of Disney’s most beloved animated films. Halle Bailey is playing Ariel with Melissa McCarthy excitingly cast as Ursula the sea witch. We’re forecasting it to make a splash with 12 16-34 adult TVRs and 17 16-34 women TVRs.
Across The Pond
John Wick Chapter 4 smashed expectations in North America, opening with a series best $73.5m. The previous film in the series opened with $56.8m in May 2019. Creed III came in second adding $10.4m for a new total of $140.9m. Shazam: Fury Of The Gods fell 68% in third to $9.7m and a new total of $46.3m. Scream VI added $8.4m in fourth, which takes its total to $89.9m, while 65 completed the top five, adding $3.3m for a new total of $27.8m.