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Box Office Round-up
Puss In Boots: The Last Wish stayed in the top spot on its second weekend, adding £3.1m, which is a drop of 38% from last weekend. That takes its total after 10 days in cinemas to £9.2m. This week is half-term week, so it should at least double its weekend figure over the next four days. It could be close to overtaking the first film’s £15.6m total by this time next week.
Magic Mike’s Last Dance opened in second with £1.5m. That’s just below the £1.6m the second film, Magic Mike XXL opened with in July 2015. The first film opened on a Wednesday and launched with a five-day total of £2.7m. Hopefully this third instalment will get a boost from Valentine’s Day tomorrow.
It’s 25 years since Titanic was first in cinemas and it got an anniversary re-release in 3D this weekend. It banked £870k and is another film that should benefit from Valentine’s Day. The film is still in the top 10 biggest films of all-time and is the only film released in the 20th century to feature in the 25 biggest films of all-time in the UK & Ireland.
Avatar: The Way Of Water fell to fourth, adding £832k. That takes its total after nine weekends in cinemas to £74.3m and its now the 12th highest grossing film of all time in the UK & Ireland. Worldwide it has surpassed $2.2bn and will soon overtake Titanic to be the third biggest film in history.
M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock At The Cabin completed the top five, adding £537k, a drop of 46% from last weekend. That takes its total after 10 days in cinemas to £2m. After its second weekend, M. Night Shyamalan’s last film, Old, was on £2.1m, so Knock At The Cabin is performing very similarly.
Outside of the top five, animated title Epic Tails opened in ninth with £260k.
The box office is up 24% from last weekend and down 36% from the same weekend last year.
Next Weekend
Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania is the first Marvel film of 2023. Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly star as Scott Lang and Hope Van Dyne who, along with Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne, explore the Quantum Realm, where they interact with strange creatures and embark on an adventure that goes beyond the limits of what they thought was possible.
Marcel The Shell With Shoes On is a mixture of live-action and animation and it’s a feature a adaptation of the animated short film interviewing a mollusk named Marcel. Jenny Slate voices Marcel.
The Buzz
The Flash is the summer’s big DC Comics blockbuster. Ezra Miller stars as Barry Allen aka The Flash who can run super-fast and mess with dimensions. The big news is that Michael Keaton, the best of all Batmans, returns as the Caped Crusader, while Ben Affleck and Michael Shannon also reprise their DC roles. It’s directed by Andy Muschietti (It: Chapter One and Two) and it looks a ton of fun. We’re currently forecasting 9 16-34 adult TVRs, making it one of the best films for 16-34s this summer.
Across The Pond
Magic Mike’s Last Dance opened in the top spot in North America, launching with $8.2m, from just 1500 theatres. Avatar: The Way Of Water rose back up to second, adding $6.9m for a new total of $646.9m. Titanic’s 25th Anniversary released opened with $6.4m, making it two James Cameron films in the top three. 80 For Brady fell to second, dropping 53% to $25m. Knock At The Cabin completed the top five, adding $5.5m for a new total of $23.4m.