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The Weekend Round-up
It continued to dominate the box office with a second week at number one. It fell 39% to £6.09m for a strong 10-day total of £21.2m. It is already just £189k short of The Woman In Black (£21.3m), which has the highest cume for a horror film in the UK of all time.
Victoria and Abdul was this week’s highest new entry, opening with £1.85m to sit in second place. This records director Stephen Frears’ best-ever UK debut, sitting 20% up from the opening of Philomena in 2013 (£1.5m).
mother! comes in third, opening with £0.8m. This does not hit the same mark as Black Swan (£2.7m) however it has similar openings to Side Effects (£0.9m), Nightcrawler (£1.0m) and Nocturnal Animals (£0.7m). The film will hope to post stronger numbers midweek due to its arthouse-skewing audience.
American Assassin opened in fourth with a total of £769k, including £176k from previews.
The Emoji Movie rounded out the top five dropping off 29% adding £389k for a total cume of £13.7m to date.
Overall the box office was down 18% from last weekend and down 15% from the same weekend last year.
Next Weekend
Kingsman: the Golden Circle is the highly-anticipated sequel to Kingsman: The Secret Service. When their headquarters are destroyed and the world is held hostage, the Kingsman's journey leads them to the discovery of an allied spy organization in the US. These two elite secret organizations must band together to defeat a common enemy. The film opens this Wednesday, 20th September.
Borg Vs McEnroe tells the story of the 1980s tennis rivalry between the placid Björn Borg and the volatile John McEnroe. The film is directed by Janus Metz Pedersen, from a screenplay written by Ronnie Sandahl, and stars Sverrir Gudnason, Shia LaBeouf and Stellan Skarsgård. The film opened the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.
The Buzz
Alexander Payne’s Downsizing is a science fiction comedy-drama starring Matt Damon, Christoph Waltz and Kristen Wiig. When scientists discover how to shrink humans to five inches tall as a solution to overpopulation, Paul (Matt Damon) and his wife Audrey (Kristen Wiig) decide to abandon their stressed lives in order to get small and move to a new downsized community — a choice that triggers life-changing adventures. The film premiered at the 74th Venice Film Festival at the end of August and has received positive reviews, with The Guardian’s Xan Brooks describing the film as a “gorgeous, giddy parable of a modern-day Lilliput”. Downsizing receives its UK premiere at the London Film Festival next month.
Across The Pond
It held on to the top spot adding $60.1m for a total cume of $218.8m, becoming the highest grossing September release of all-time. American Assassin opened in second with $14.8m, while mother! opened in third with a total of $7.5m. Home Again dropped to fourth adding $5.2m for a new total of $17m. The Hitman’s Bodyguard completed the top five, adding £3.6m for a new total of $70.4m.