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The Weekend Round-up
For the second week in succession, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 topped the box office but it came under more pressure than perhaps was expected from The Other Woman. With £3.4m, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 fell 45% from the previous weekend (once previews are removed), which is a shade higher than the 42% the first Amazing Spider-Man fell on its second weekend in July 2012. To date the Marvel blockbuster has grossed £16.5m and with no real tent-pole competition until Godzilla on 15 May, it will be looking to cross the £25m mark.
Cameron Diaz and Leslie Mann comedy The Other Woman grossed £2m from Friday to Sunday and with preview figures of £683k, it opens with a very impressive £2.7m. That’s almost identical to Bad Teacher, which opened with £2m from Friday to Sunday in June 2011.
Transcendence opened in third but was heavily boosted by preview figures (£595k) from the long Easter weekend, giving it a total of £1.2m. Rio 2 held up well, falling 22% to £883k and now has a cume of £11.8m. It’s now looking highly likely that it will overtake the first Rio’s final total of £13.6m. Captain America: The Winter Soldier completed the top five with £579k and crossed the £18m mark in the process.
Overall, the box office was down 25% from last weekend and down 36% from the same weekend last year, which saw the debut of one of the year’s biggest films, Iron Man 3.
Next Weekend
Both Pompeii and Plastic are out on Wednesday. Also in cinemas is the excellent US thriller, Blue Ruin. Run, don’t walk, to the nearest cinema showing it. Tarzan swings into cinemas on Friday and already has preview figures of £280k from Saturday and Sunday. Bad Neighbours opens on Saturday and is the first film that I can recall to do so. It is an immensely satisfying comedy and its box office will hopefully reflect that, although the Saturday to Thursday figures will bizarrely be counted as previews, so will be in the following weekend’s box office figures.
The Buzz
Maleficent opens in exactly one month’s time and Disney are reportedly worried that it is proving too scary for a family audience. From the trailer it struck me as more like Snow White and the Huntsman though, which played to a slightly older female audience. Frank is in cinemas on 9 May and received very positive reviews after its screening at Sundance London on Friday evening.
Across The Pond
The Other Woman managed to top the box office with $24.7m and as expected the audience was 75% female and 65% over 25 years of age. The film that held the number one spot for the previous three weeks, Captain America: The Winter Soldier dropped to second place wih $16m, which gives the Marvel blockbuster a cume of $224.9m. Heaven is for Real eased 39% to $13.8m in third and has already grossed an impressive $51.9m. Rio 2 took fourth spot with $13.7m and the animated sequel has grossed $96.2m to date. Finally, Brick Mansions completed the top five with $9.6m.
