| Date | |
|---|---|
| Author | Zoe Aresti |
The Weekend Round-up
The first real sign of sunshine for the year over the weekend meant cinema took a slight hit but Captain America: Civil War comfortably held on to the top spot. The epic superhero showdown fell a chunky 67% to £4.8m, which brought its 10-day total to £27.4m. That’s on a par with Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice’s second weekend drop and at the same stage of its run, Dawn Of Justice was on £27.8m. The cloudier weather forecast for the rest of the week has already seen titles start to bounce back.
The Jungle Book wasn’t immune to the weather either, as it experienced its first big hit, falling 63% to £2.1m. It has now grossed a terrific £36.8m and at some point this week it will overtake Deadpool to become the biggest film of 2016 to date.
Bad Neighbours 2 was the highest new entry in third, kicking off its run with £1.7m, which is less than half of the £3.5m Friday to Sunday total of the first Bad Neighbours film in 2014.
Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant British prestige pic, Florence Foster Jenkins opened in fourth, with £713k, which included £129k from previews. The core audience for this film is more likely to attend during the week, so hopefully it will pick up from Monday to Thursday.
Family animation, Robinson Crusoe completed the top five, opening with £575k, which included £359k from previews.
Overall the box office was down 54% from last weekend and up 18% from the same weekend last year when the top four films were The Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Spooks: The Greater Good, Far From The Madding Crowd and Unfriended.
Next Weekend
The Angry Birds Movie is the big screen debut of the hugely popular smartphone game. When an island populated by happy, flightless birds is visited by mysterious green pigs, it's up to three unlikely outcasts - Red, Chuck and Bomb - to figure out what the pigs are up to.
Our Kind Of Traitor is the latest adaptation of a John Le Carré novel and stars Ewan McGregor, Damian Lewis and Naomie Harris. A couple find themselves lured into a Russian oligarch's plans to defect are soon positioned between the Russian Mafia and the British Secret Service, neither of whom they can trust.
Green Room is a brutal, tense thriller from Jeremy Saulnier (Blue Ruin). After witnessing a murder, a punk rock band is forced into a vicious fight for survival against a group of maniacal skinheads.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot stars Tina Fey as a journalist who recounts her wartime coverage in Afghanistan. Directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (Focus, Crazy Stupid Love), it has grossed $23.1m since being released in the US.
Everybody Wants Some is Richard Linklater’s follow-up to the Oscar-winning Boyhood. A group of college baseball players navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood. It’s a laid-back, funny treat.
The Buzz
Elvis & Nixon is in cinemas on 24 June and stars Kevin Spacey as Richard Nixon and Michael Shannon as Elvis Presley. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival a few weeks ago and has had some positive reviews. Richard Roeper in the Chicago Sun-Times said ‘for the bulk of the ride, it’s a wickedly funny interpretation of the one of the great confounding moments in American pop culture and political history’, and The Hollywood Reporter said ‘featuring hilarious yet acutely observed performances by Michael Shannon and Kevin Spacey as the titular characters, Elvis & Nixon… is a hoot.’
Across The Pond
Captain America: Civil War opened with $179.1m, the fifth largest opening of all-time and the third largest opening for a film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The Jungle Book came in second, falling 44% to $24.5m bringing its total to $287.6m. Mother’s Day had a great second weekend, increasing on last weekend’s total to $11m and it has now banked $22.8m. The Huntsman: Winter’s War added $3.9m in fourth and now has a cume of $40.7m. Keanu completed the top five with $3.3m and a new total of $15.3m.
To browse all these movies and more, visit our Now Booking page.