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The public took a trip to Elysium this Bank Holiday weekend as the Matt Damon sci-fi actioner comfortably topped the box office with £3.1m, including £974k from previews. Factoring in Bank Holiday Monday, it has a cume of £3.6m. The film has a very similar feel to director Neill Blomkamp’s debut film, District 9, and that film opened with £2.3m in 2009 but without previews, so from Friday to Sunday was slightly up on Elysium.
We’re The Millers opened in second place with a solid £1.5m (including £8k from previews) and including Monday, now has a cume of £1.9m. Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis previously starred together in 2011’s Horrible Bosses, which opened with £2m.
Disney animation Planes fell 33% and one place to third with £1.2m and a cume, including Monday, of £4.4m.
Teen fiction adaptation The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones was in fourth with £1.1m. Add in £474k from previews and including Monday, the film now has a cume of £1.3m. This performance is par for the genre in 2013, with The Host opening with £991k in March (without previews) and Beautiful Creatures opening with £1.1m in February (including £371k from previews). City Of Bones is the first of six Mortal Instruments books and with a disappointing opening both here and in the US, it remains to be seen whether the second book will get a big screen outing.
Grown Ups 2 completed the top five with £678k and, including Monday, has a cume of £6.6m. It’s likely to finish with a very similar final total to Grown Ups’ £7.8m.
Overall the box office was down 11% from last weekend but up 7% from the same weekend last year when Keith Lemon: The Film and The Three Stooges were the biggest openers.
In the US, The Butler fell 33% to $16.5m and after 10 days has grossed $51.8m. For the third weekend in succession We're the Millers secured the second spot, falling just 27% to $13.1m and it now has a strong cume of $91.3m.
The highest new entry in third was The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones with $9.3m and the film's audience was 68% female and 46% under the age of 21. In fourth spot, Edgar Wright's The World's End debuted with $8.8m and the audience was 58% male and 54% under 30 years old. Planes completed the top five with a further $8.6m and to date has grossed $59.6m.
