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The Weekend Round-up
Last week Beauty and the Beast opened with the fifth biggest opening weekend of all time, and this weekend it delivered the third biggest second weekend of all time. A total of £12.3m is a drop of just 37% from last weekend and brings its total to £39.9m. In just nine days, it overtook La La Land to become the biggest film of 2017 to date.
This week’s highest new entry was Power Rangers, which opened in second with £1.6m. With the Easter holidays still to come, it will be hoping for a solid few weeks.
Get Out stayed in third, having a terrific hold for a horror film, falling just 37% to £1.4m. That brings its total to £4.9m.
Kong: Skull Island took a tumble in fourth, falling 58% to £1.1m. That brings its total to £13.2m, and it will still hope to get to £15m, but it’s going to fall short of Godzilla’s final total of £17.2m.
Logan completed the top five, adding £763k, which brings its total to £21.9m. It’s now the second highest grossing X-Men film, behind X-Men: Days of Future Past, which finished on £27.1m
Outside of the top five, sci-fi horror Life opened in sixth with £743k. Considering the heavyweight cast, including Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds and Rebecca Ferguson, that is a disappointing result.
Two other new entries also opened quietly. Charlie Hunnam drama The Lost City of Z opened in seventh with £270k (including £4k from previews), while CHiPs: Law and Disorder opened in eighth with £206k.
Overall the box office was down 32% from last weekend and down 24% from the same weekend last year, when the top four films were Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, Zootropolis, Kung Fu Panda 3 and My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2.
Next Weekend
Ghost In The Shell is a remake of the classic Japanese anime. In the near future, Scarlett Johansson stars as Major, the first of her kind: a human saved from a terrible crash, who is cyber-enhanced to be a perfect soldier devoted to stopping the world's most dangerous criminals.
Free Fire is the latest film from Ben Wheatley (Sightseers, High-Rise, Kill List). Set in Boston in 1978, a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shootout and a game of survival.
Smurfs: The Lost Village is the third film featuring the little blue creatures. A mysterious map sets Smurfette and her friends Brainy, Clumsy and Hefty on an exciting race through the Forbidden Forest leading to the discovery of the biggest secret in Smurf history.
The Buzz
The Zookeeper’s Wife is the latest film starring the Academy award-nominated Jessica Chastain. It tells the story of the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo, Antonina and Jan Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the German invasion. The first reviews are in and they’re mostly positive. The Film Stage said ‘there’s something powerful to be read into every action, line, and image. Subtle yet striking, this is a film that is filled with the power of exquisitely executed storytelling.’ Indiewire said ‘Decency, in its raw, instinctive form, is ultimately what earns The Zookeeper’s Wife a place in the self-conflicted canon of Holocaust cinema.’ Variety said ‘there’s no nice way to put it in this case, but The Zookeeper’s Wife has the unfortunate failing of rendering its human drama less interesting than what happens to the animals — and for a subject as damaging to our species as the Holocaust, that no small shortcoming.’ It’s out on 28 April.
Across The Pond
Beauty and the Beast topped the box office once again with $90.4m, which is down 48% from last weekend. That brings its total to $319m after just ten days. Power Rangers opened in second with $40.3m and Kong: Skull Island took third with $14.7m. That brings its total to $133.7m. Life opened in fourth with a disappointing $12.6m and Logan completed the top five with $10.3, which brings its total to $201.6m.