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The Weekend Round-up
Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie topped the box office for the second weekend running with £2.2m. The BBC comedy has now grossed £9.3m, which is over three times the total gross of both Keith Lemon: The Film and The Harry Hill Movie, neither of which cracked the £3m mark. There was also no change in second place as The Fault In Our Stars fell 40% to £962k and a very healthy cume of £8.6m.
22 Jump Street landed in third ensuring the top three was exactly the same as last weekend. The Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill comedy fell 45% to £663k and has now grossed £16.6m, which puts it above Bad Neighbours’ mark of £16m. It should remain the biggest live-action comedy of the year until The Inbetweeners 2 enters the fray on 6 August. How To Train Your Dragon 2 is still previewing in England, so those figures will be added to next week’s total when it goes on nationwide release. In the meantime, its Scotland and Ireland release added £475k, which is a drop of just 10% (when previews are removed) and it now has a cume of £1.5m.
The highest new entry, Tammy achieved £471k, which is 64% down on the £1.3m that Identity Thief opened with in March 2013, although that figure included £110k of previews. Maleficent continued to perform strongly, adding £449k for a cume of £17.4m. Overall the box office was down 45% from last weekend and down 33% from the same weekend last year, which saw the second week of the year’s biggest film, Despicable Me 2. What those figures don’t tell you is that Transformers: Age of Extinction opened on Saturday and grossed £4.7m over Saturday and Sunday but the figures will be classed as previews and added to next weekend. Had they been added to this weekend, the box office would only have been down 2% year-on-year.
Next Weekend
How To Train Your Dragon 2 goes nationwide, having opened in Scotland and Ireland a couple of weeks ago. Begin Again, starring Mark Ruffalo and Keira Knightley, looks to provide a feel-good summer treat and one of the cinematic highlights of the year hits cinemas, in Richard Linklater’s Boyhood. Filmed over a period of 12 years, it has been receiving rave reviews from everyone who has seen it and is a genuine must-see film.
The Buzz
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes continues to garner great reviews ahead of its 17 July release and currently has a stellar rating of 90 on review aggregator site Metacritic.
Across The Pond
On the 4th July holiday weekend Transformers: Age of Extinction held on to the top spot with $37.1m for a strong cume of $175.4m. Tammy opened on Wednesday and was the highest new entry with $21.6m from Friday to Sunday for a five day cume of $33.3m. 22 Jump Street added $9.8m, crossing the $150m mark in the process and now sits on a very healthy $159.3m. Eric Bana horror, Deliver Us From Evil also opened on Wednesday and landed in fourth with $9.8m over the weekend and a cume of $15.3m. How to Train Your Dragon 2 completed the top five adding $9m for a cume of $140.2m.
