#Blitz

The summer has officially begun with Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides arriving on UK shores last Wednesday. Its five-day gross is an impressive £11.6m. Excluding previews (£8.6m), Pirates has had the biggest 3-day opening weekend of 2011 to date.

Pirates has pushed the weekend top 15 up to £15.2m, more than doubling the same weekend last year when Prince of Persia opened. Other new openers over the weekend included Jason Statham’s Blitz, with an opening gross of £266K. Limited releases also came from Win Win starring Paul Giamatti (£155K), the cricket documentary Fire in Babylon (107K) and Spanish horror Julia’s Eyes (£49K).

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This weeks film schedule updates:

• Drive Angry 3D has moved from 18-Feb 2011 to 25-Feb 2011
• The Beaver has moved from 11-Feb 2011 to Mar TBA 2011
• Super 8 has moved from Summer TBA 2011 to 19-Aug 2011
• Fright Night has moved from TBA 2011 to 02-Sep 2011
• My Soul To Take 3D has moved from 21-Jan 2011 to TBA
• Hugo Cabret has been added (09-Dec 2011)
• Tomorrow, When The War Began has been added (15-Apr 2011)
• Blitz has been added (17-Jun 2011)
• LOL (Laughing Out Load) has been added (21-Oct 2011)
• Underworld 4 (20-Jan 2012)

The film schedule has been updated with these changes.

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