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The Weekend Round-up
Captain Jack Sparrow made a return to the big screen on Thursday and stole the show over the long weekend by capturing top spot at the UK box office with £5.24m, including Thursday previews totalling £691k.
The last instalment in the series, On Stranger Tides, washed up a chest of £11.63m including previews of £3m six years ago, but Salazar’s Revenge is up on the original film, 2003’s The Curse of the Black Pearl, which took £3.77m at the box office in its opening weekend.
The film opened over the hottest days of the year so far in the UK but the latest in Disney’s franchise fronted managed to boost its performance by taking advantage of a rainy bank holiday Monday with £2.07m on that day, bringing the film’s total to £7.31m for the long weekend.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul is the sequel to previous Diary of a Wimpy Kid film Dog Days and the film is the second of three new entries in the top 10 this week. It secured second place by taking in £1.4m including £786k from previews.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 held on to third spot this week by pulling in a further 885k, to take its total after five weeks to £37.8m. James Gunn’s sci-fi hit sequel held off Alien: Covenant, which fell two places from second to fourth and now has a cume of £11.6m after three weeks on the big screen.
Guy Ritchie’s medieval tale, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, completed the top five at the UK box office with a weekend fix of 594k – including 28k from previews – bringing its total to £3.8m.
Snatched had a fall off of 60% without previews elsewhere in the top 10 and has taken in 1.6m after two weeks in cinemas. The Boss Baby toddles behind in seventh position this week, having taken £199k, for a new total of just over £27m.
Secret Cinema makes a return to the top of the box office table this week with Moulin Rouge! re-entering the fold in eighth.
Studiocanal’s The Red Turtle is the third new entry this week and opens with just shy of £92k, including £28k from previews and following is eOne’s A Dog’s Purpose, in at 10th to complete the standings with £2.6m after four weeks in cinemas.
Overall, the box office was up 10% from last weekend and up 7% from the same weekend last year.