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About Time took the top spot at the UK box office this weekend past, with an opening foray of £1.8m, inlcuding £385k from previews. This is the first film Richard Curtis has directed since The Boat That Rocked back in 2009. That film opened with a very similar amount.
Second place went to Riddick, which took in £1.4m, including £445k from previews, enjoying the best opening weekend in the franchise to date.
One Direction: This Is Us continued to perform strongly in third place, taking £1.1m, dropping 68% from last week and amassing a healthy cume of £5.8m. However, if we minus the previews from last week, the drop is not quite as steep, at 49%.
We’re the Millers and Elysium rounded out the top five, taking £918k and £776k respectively. We’re the Millers now has a cume of £5.8m and Elysium has taken £7.4m to date in the UK box office.
This weekend was down 21% from last weekend but up 32% from the same time last year.
Riddick topped the box office in the US with $18.7m. With school and the NFL season getting underway, many people tend to stay away from movie theatres around this time of year. As a result, it has historically been a time when studios release genre films, Riddick is a perfect example of this. The audience was 59% male and 53% over the age of 30.
The Butler remained in second place, adding a further $8.9m to its cume in its second week of release. Instructions Not Included came in third, moving up one spot on the chart from last week, taking $8.1m. We’re the Millers and Planes rounded out the US top five, taking $7.9m and $4.2m respectively.