The Weekend Round-up
- Pixar’s Incredibles 2 opened in the top spot with a sensational £9.7m, which includes £134k from previews. That’s the second highest opening ever for a Pixar film, only behind Toy Story 3 (£11.5m). The last Pixar film to open to a similar number was 2016’s Finding Dory, which opened with £8.1m on its way to £43m, so that’s a total Incredibles 2 will be looking to beat. The first Incredibles finished its run on £32.3m and that total looks eminently beatable.
- Dwayne Johnson action-film Skyscraper opened in second with £1.8m, which includes £356k from previews after opening on Thursday. Johnson experienced great success at Christmas with Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle and his last film, Rampage, opened with £4.1m (including £954k from previews) in April, so Skyscraper’s debut is some way down on that.
- Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom came in third, adding £825k, a drop of 38% from last weekend. That takes its total to £38.4m and with some of the schools now on holiday, it looks like £40m is a certainty.
- Last weekend’s top film The First Purge fell to fourth, adding £798k. That’s a drop of just 31% once previews are removed and is a terrific hold for a film in this series. The First Purge has now grossed £3.4m and it will shortly overtake The Purge to become the second biggest film in the four film series. The Purge: Anarchy finished on £4.6m, which still looks like a possibility for The First Purge.
- Ocean’s 8 completed the top five, falling 37% to £530k. That takes its total to £9.7m and by the end of this week it will have cracked the £10m mark.
Outside of the top five, horror-thriller The Secret Of Marrowbone opened softly with £171k, which includes £26k from previews.
Overall, the box office was up 133% from last weekend and down 25% from the same weekend last year, when the top films were War For The Planet Of The Apes, Despicable Me 3, Spider-Man: Homecoming and Cars 3.
Next Weekend
- Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again is the sequel to one of the biggest films of all time. In this sequel Sophie learns about her mother's past while pregnant herself.
- Hotel Artemis is an action-thriller. Set in riot-torn, near-future Los Angeles, Hotel Artemis follows the Nurse, who runs a secret, members-only emergency room for criminals. The quality cast includes Jodie Foster and Jeff Goldblum.
The Buzz
Mission: Impossible - Fallout is the sixth film in the popular action series and by almost every account is the best one yet. It currently has a sensational score of 86 on Metacritic (http://www.metacritic.com/movie/mission-impossible-fallout/critic-reviews), with five stars in Empire, Total Film and The Telegraph, which called it ‘the blockbuster of the summer’. It’s in cinemas on 25 July.
Across The Pond
With an estimated $44.1m, Hotel Transylvania 3 opened in the top spot with $44.1m, which tops the first film’s $45.4m opening. Ant-Man and the Wasp fell a chunky 62% to $29.1m, which takes its total to $133.1m. Skyscraper opened in third with $24.59 and Incredibles 2 added $16.3m in fourth, which takes its total to $535.9m. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom completed the top five, adding $16.2m for a new total of $364m.