#The Woman In Black

UK Box Office – 20 March 2012

March 20th, 2012 Author: Tom LinayTags: 21 Jump Street, Cinema Advertising, Contraband, Digital Cinema Media, Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, Friends With Kids, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Devil Inside, The Woman In Black, We Bought A Zoo

The Vatican may not have wanted anyone to see it but a large number of people did anyway as The Devil Inside topped the weekend’s box office. The found footage exorcism horror grossed an impressive £2m, which is significantly more than the similarly themed Exorcism of Emily Rose (£1.3m) and The Last Exorcism (£1.1m). In second place was the brilliantly funny 21 Jump Street with £1.6m.

In third place, fractionally behind 21 Jump Street, was The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel with £1.5m. Easing just 14% from last weekend, this is the fourth £1m plus weekend in a row for the India set comedy and it now has a cume total of £13.9m. In fifth and sixth place were two more new entries, We Bought A Zoo and Contraband.

UK Box Office – 14 March 2012

March 14th, 2012 Author: Tom LinayTags: Bel Ami, Cinema Advertising, Digital Cinema Media, John Carter 3D, The Artist, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Muppets, The Raven, The Woman In Black, Tom Linay, UK Box Office, War Horse

Disney’s sci-fi fantasy epic, John Carter 3D topped the weekend’s box office with £2m. It’s a decent performance from a film that many had been predicting to fail. The obvious point of comparison is Disney’s last fantasy epic, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, which kicked off its cinema run with £1.4m in May 2010. That film went on to gross £8.7m in total. John Carter 3D also had a stronger opening than last year’s fantasy epic, Cowboys and Aliens, which opened to £1.8m in August.

In second place with a further £1.8m was The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Easing just 24% from last weekend this was another strong performance from a film on its third weekend on release and it now has a cume total of £10.9m. In third place with its fifth £1m+ weekend in succession was The Woman In Black. This time around it took £1.1m and on Friday cantered past War Horse to become the highest grossing film in the UK so far this year with a cume total of £19.5m.

UK Box Office – 06 March 2012

March 6th, 2012 Author: Tom LinayTags: Act Of Valor, Cinema Advertising, Digital Cinema Media, Dr Seuss: The Lorax 3D, Project X, Safe house, The Artist, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Woman In Black, This Means War, UK Box Office, Wanderlust

A British film topped the UK box office for the fourth weekend in succession. This time it was the turn of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel with £2.3m on its second weekend on release, an improvement of 5% from last weekend. 2003’s Calendar Girls only managed to gross £1.9m on its second weekend on wide release, which suggests that The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel may get close to that film’s final total of £20.4m. It has now grossed a very impressive £7m after ten days in cinemas.

Despite failing to top the box office for the first time since release, The Woman In Black still took second place with a further £1.9m. This takes its cume total to £17.6m and it looks set to overtake War Horse (£18.3m) as the biggest grossing film of the year so far. As you may have read in the press last week, The Woman In Black is now the most successful British horror film of all time. A terrific result for distributor Momentum and the recently revived Hammer Films.

UK Box Office – 28 February 2012

February 28th, 2012 Author: Tom LinayTags: Act Of Valor, Box Office, Cinema Advertising, Digital Cinema Media, One For The Money, Safe house, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The Vow, The Woman In Black, Tom Linay, Wanderlust, War Horse

Emulating the performance of War Horse in January, The Woman In Black managed to top the weekend’s box office for the third successive weekend. The period chiller grossed a further £2.4m taking its cume to £14.6m, which far outstrips the total gross of recent hit films involving the supernatural including all Paranormal Activity films (Paranormal Activity 2 being the most successful with £11m) and Insidious (£7.1m). It now lies second behind The King’s Speech (£45.7m) in the list of distributor Momentum’s most successful releases.

The weekend’s highest new entry was The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, in second place with £2.2m. Very much aimed at the more mature audience this opening comfortably beat the similarly aimed Ladies In Lavender (£423k), Mrs Henderson Presents (£752k) and Last Orders (£101k). It will have to perform spectacularly though to beat Calendar Girls’ total gross of £20.4m.

UK Box Office – 20 February 2012

February 20th, 2012 Author: Tom LinayTags: Digital Cinema Media, Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D, Safe house, Star Wars: Episode 1 3D, The Artist, The Muppets, The Vow, The Woman In Black, This Means War

On a strong weekend, the top two from last weekend managed to hold on to the top two spots and both managed to improve on last weekend’s performance. The last time this happened was January 2010 with Avatar and Sherlock Holmes at one and two and this time it’s The Woman In Black and The Muppets. There was very little to separate them but a further £3.5m for The Woman In Black, an 11% increase from last weekend, saw it come out on top and it now has ten day gross of £10.5m. The Muppets had to be content with £3.4m, a 29% improvement on last weekend, and a ten day gross of £10.7m.