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Box Office Round-up
Sam Raimi’s Send Help opened in the top spot with £1.6m, which includes £259k from previews, but its Friday to Sunday total was still enough for first place. In terms of recent thrillers, M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap opened with £1.1m and finished on £3.8m, so Send Help should be looking at a total north of £4m.
Event cinema is back near the top of the box office as K-Pop sensations Stray Kids released a brand new concert film, STRAY KIDS: The DominATE Experience. It opened in second with a terrific £1.1m. At present, it looks like it’s only going to be in cinemas for the weekend, so that might be its final total too, but that tops any concert release from BTS.
The Housemaid continues to be a genuine box office sensation. The twisty-thriller added £929k this weekend, which is down just 34% from last weekend. That takes its total to a huge £30m. An amazing result, especially when you compare that to some of last summer’s biggest films – Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning finished on £26.4m, and Superman finished on £28.1m.
Hamnet has now overtaken Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast to become the biggest awards season title post-covid. It added £830k on its fifth weekend, which takes its total to £16.6m. Belfast finished its run on £15.6m, and with both the Oscars and BAFTAs still to come, there should be a fair bit left in the tank for Hamnet.
Zootropolis 2 rounded out the top five, adding £603k for a new total of £33.3m.
Outside of the top five, another huge awards season success, Marty Supreme, crossed the £15m mark in seventh and now sits on £15.6m.
Next Weekend
Wuthering Heights stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in Emerald Fennell’s loose adaptation of Emily Bronte’s classic novel. It’s a passionate and tumultuous love story set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, exploring the intense and destructive relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw.
Crime 101 stars Chris Hemsworth as an elusive thief, eyeing his final score, who encounters a disillusioned insurance broker at her own crossroads (Halle Berry). As their paths intertwine, a relentless detective (Mark Ruffalo) trails them hoping to thwart the multi-million dollar heist they are planning. It’s in premium large format screenings from Wednesday.
Whistle is a horror about a misfit group of unwitting high school students who stumble upon a cursed object, an ancient Aztec Death Whistle. They discover that blowing the whistle and the terrifying sound it emits will summon their future deaths to hunt them down.
Goat is a new animation about a small goat with big dreams who gets a once-in-a-lifetime shot to join the pros and play roarball, a high-intensity, co-ed, full-contact sport dominated by the fastest, fiercest animals in the world.
Stitch Head is a new animation. A mad scientist ignores each of his creations when he shifts his attention to the next monster. His first creation, Stitch Head, searching for purpose, takes it upon himself to look after all the other monsters.
The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie is a new animation featuring the famous Looney Tunes characters. Porky Pig and Daffy Duck are Earth's only hope when facing the threat of alien invasion.
The Buzz
The Drama stars Zendaya and Robert Pattinson in a new romantic comedy-drama from A24. They play a happily engaged couple who are put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails. In the latest trailer, Zendaya’s character reveals something that shocks her fiancé and friends and threatens to derail the wedding, but it’s not yet clear what Zendaya’s character has done. The marketing so far for this film has been excellent, and finding out just what Zendaya’s character has done is going to be one of the highlights of Q2. It’s one of the best films for 16-34, ABC1 women in Q2 and it hits cinemas on 3 April.
Across The Pond
On the historically quiet Superbowl weekend, Send Help held on to the top spot with a strong hold, falling 48% to $10m, which takes its total to $35.8m. Kevin James rom-com Solo Mio opened in second with $7.2m, while Iron Lung fell to third, adding $6m for a new total of $30.8m. Stray Kids: The DominATE Experience opened in fourth with $5.6m and Dracula opened in fifth with $4.5m.