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The Weekend Round-up
Straight Outta Compton dropped the mic and took the top spot, opening with an impressive £2.5m from Friday to Sunday (including £3k from previews).
Inside Out had another strong weekend, adding £1.1m from Friday to Sunday for a cume of £33.7m.
Hitman: Agent 47 was a new entry in third, delivering £961k across the weekend (including £171k from Thursday previews), and has a total of £1.2m.
Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation just keeps on delivering, adding £891k from Friday to Sunday. It’s also overtaken Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol’s final total of £18.3m and sits on £18.7m, making it the highest grossing Mission: Impossible film to date.
Pixels completed the top five, with a Friday to Sunday total of £665k for a cume of £6.4m.
Outside of the top five, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Minions and Paper Towns all had a strong Friday to Sunday, adding £658,399, £353,262 and £452,953 respectively..
Overall, the box office was down 6% from last weekend and down 4% from the same weekend last year, when the top four films were Lucy, Let’s Be Cops, The Inbetweeners 2 and Sin City: A Dame To Kill For.
Next Weekend
Me And Earl And The Dying Girl won the major prizes at this year’s Sundance film festival, so arrives with expectation.
American Ultra is a stoner action-comedy-romance starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart. It has delivered $10.5m after ten days on release in the US.
Ricki And The Flash stars Meryl Streep as a successful musician who has to re-connect with her family.
No Escape is an action thriller starring Owen Wilson and Lake Bell as holidaymakers caught up in a violent uprising in an unnamed South East Asian country.
Dope is an LA based comedy-drama that Time Out have called ‘one of the summer’s funniest films’.
The Transporter Refuelled sees the previously Jason Statham-led action series rebooted with Ed Skrein in the lead.
The Buzz
Legend is the highly anticipated drama that sees Tom Hardy play both Kray twins. The first reviews are in and Total Film awarded it four stars, saying Hardy ‘gives a career best performance’. Please note that the film has been given an 18-certificate by the BBFC. It opens in the UK on Wednesday, 9 September and will be playing as part of DCM Tuesdays a day earlier.
Across The Pond
Straight Outta Compton topped the box office for the third straight weekend, adding $13.1m for a terrific cume of $134m. Faith-based drama, War Room, came in second with £11.4m. Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation had another good hold in third, adding $8.2m for a cume of $170.2m. No Escape opened in fourth with $8m and Sinister 2 completed the top five with $4.7m for a cume of $18.5m.
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