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Fast & Furious 6 put the pedal to the metal this weekend past and achieved the second biggest opening weekend of the year, with an impressive £8.7m, this is over £3m more than the opening weekend of the 2009 Fast Five release from Universal Pictures.
The F. Scott Fitzgerald adaption from Baz Luhrmann, The Great Gatsby, took a strong second place in the top 10 on its opening weekend, with a potent £4.1m, which is almost quadruple the opening weekend of Luhrmann’s last cinema release, Australia.
Overall, this weekend was up 30% on the weekend before and up 48% on the same time last year.
Star Trek Into Darkness and Iron Man 3 continued to fight it out for third place, with the Enterprise crew winning, to the tune of £3.6m, dropping 56% from its opening weekend. Iron Man 3 managed £1.4m, taking its cume to a whopping £33.8m, also easing 56% from last week.
All Stars appears to be losing its grip on the top five, falling 61% in its third week of release, taking £196k, bringing the cume to a robust £1.6m.
Across the pond, Star Trek Into Darkness easily topped the box office with very healthy $70.5m. The first film in the rebooted series managed a $77.2m opening weekend back in August 2009. The audience skewed heavily male (64%) and older (73% over the age of 25). In comparison, the first Star Trek movie reached an audience that was 60% male and 65% over 25.
In second place Stateside, Iron Man 3 almost mirrored its UK decrease, dropping 51%, taking $35.1m and a cume of $337m.
On its second week of release in the US, The Great Gatsby took the third spot, bringing in $23.4m, taking its cume to just over $90m.
Pain and Gain and The Croods rounded out the top five, taking $3.1m and $2.7m respectively.
