Top 5 Breakdown
- The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2 – £4,524,678 – £19,313,387
2D £4,016,139 total £15,793,612 – 3D took £463,539 total £3,519,7754
Down 59.7% from its opening weekend including previews (51% not including) similar to Mockingjay Part 1.
After opening 11% down from first Mockingjay film last November managed to hold onto top spot for a second weekend which the first film never managed to do as Paddington opened in top spot.
Down only 7.3% in its second weekend compared to Part 1 but was helped by 3D.
After 11 days on release Catching Fire had taken £21.59m and Mockingjay Part 1 £21.25m.
With limited competition now till The Force Awakens in three weeks should hold top till then should overtake The Hunger Games £24m by next weekend but might be harder to match Mockingjay Part 1’s £31.1m.
2.The Good Dinosaur – £2,917,266 – NE
2D took £2,438,465 – 3D took £478,801
Following on from the massive summer success of Inside Out was always going to be hard for The Good Dinosaur especially with the long production history.
Critical reaction has been very mixed with everyone saying looks stunning but has plot is weak and is the first Pixar animated film that plays stronger to children.
It’s hard to compare with other Pixar releases as most have been released before school holidays and other animated films have weekend previews to boost their box office.
Will be limited to weekend matinees until school holidays start December 21st when it will also face competition with Snoopy and Charlie Brown the Peanut Movie. Inside Out opened with £7.34m and went on to take £39m.
Same weekend last year Paddington opened with £5.2m but The Good Dinosaur can’t be compared as it had a far bigger media campaign with stronger buzz was based on a national favourite.
3.Spectre – £2,167,840 – total £88,226,088
2D took £1,852,449 total £81,098,089 – IMAX £315,391 – total £7,126,999
Down 43.2% in its fifth weekend at the same time Skyfall took £3.8m in the same weekend taking £91.49m
After opening with 11% more than Skyfall £42.1m in its opening week most would have expected it to easily beat 2012’s £102m but it will likely now take less than £94m for any other film would be an incredible achievement but now-days second best isn’t good enough.
It shows how important James Bond has been for Sony Pictures in the last 9 years with the last four films Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall and Spectre taking over £300m at the UK box office. Putting a lot of pressure on the next studio and director who makes Bond 25.
35 bloopers have been already spotted by fans for Spectre compared with 68 for Skyfall
4.Bridge of Spies – £1,676,092 – NE
After positive reviews and getting Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg generating strong media coverage opening in fourth was slightly disappointing but with the next couple of weeks lacking completion could hold well as it did in the US.
Opening was similar to Spielberg’s last film 2012’s Lincoln above his last film with Tom Hanks 2004’s The Terminal £1.4m but far from his other two films with Tom Hanks 2003’s Catch Me if You Can £3.72m and 1998’s Saving Private Ryan £2.7m
Was originally set for release October 9th but was pushed back to November 27th when The Martian and Suffragette were both moved forward.
- Black Mass – £1,270,048 – NE
Ensemble gangster film was seen as Johnny Depp’s comeback film; premiering at the London Film Festival in October meant it wasn’t able to build on the media coverage generated at the time.
Many have described it as Johnny Depp’s best film in years but was always going to be a hard sell in the UK as there have been many gangster films but James “Whitey” Bulger isn’t as well-known as others.
Without Johnny Depp’s performance it would be just another gangster film going back to his performances in films like Donnie Brasco and Public Enemies makes him a very frustrating actor to watch especially when you compare this with his last Mortdecai which opened in January with £482,155.
Also released
Kenneth Branagh’s production of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale took £1.1m from 520 cinemas on Thursday.
Other box office news:
Carol – Opened in seventh taking £481,495 best opening for director Todd Haynes his previous was 2002’s Far from Heaven. Opening on a limited wide release of 195 screens will likely expand in the coming weeks; being shown at Picturehouse Central in 35mm the cinema installed their old projectors to show it but picture quality won’t look as good as it could do as the cinema has silver screens that increases light reflection polarising the light designed for digital and 3D rather than matt white screens made for 35mm.
This weekend’s top 10 box office took £14,624,747 down 22.7% from last weekend £18,815,300 was down 2.9% from same weekend last year. (£15,076,532);
Last year Paddington opened with £5,112,367, Horrible Bosses 2 £1,257,202.
This weekend last year Penguins of Madagascar opened with £1.6m, Get Santa £575,000 and St Vincent £386,640.
Complete UK Box office top 10 – November 27th – 29th 2015
| Film | Studio | Release date | Weeks | w/e box office | Change +/- | Total |
| THG: Mockingjay Part 2 | Lionsgate | 20/11/2015 | 2 | 4,524,678 | -59.7% | 11,247,588 |
| The Good Dinosaur | Disney | 27/11/2015 | 1 | 2,917,266 | NE | 2,917,266 |
| Spectre | Sony | 26/10/2015 | 5 | 2,167,840 | -43.2% | 88,225,088 |
| Bridge of Spies | 20th Century Fox | 26/11/2015 | 1 | 1,676,092 | NE | 1,676,092 |
| Black Mass | Warner | 25/11/2015 | 1 | 1,270,048 | NE | 1,270,048 |
| The Lady in the Van | Sony | 13/11/2015 | 3 | 939,801 | -41.6% | 9,036,006 |
| Carol | Studiocanal | 27/11/2015 | 1 | 481,495 | NE | 481,495 |
| Tamasha | UTV | 27/11/2015 | 1 | 254,750 | NE | 254,750 |
| Hotel Transylvania 2 | Sony | 16/10/2015 | 7 | 196,465 | -63.4% | 19,439,291 |
| Brooklyn | Lionsgate | 06/11/2015 | 4 | 196,312 | -52.1% | 4,344,298 |
US Box Office
- Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2 took $75.8m (down 8% from Mockingjay Part 1) over five-day Thanksgiving weekend total $198.3m down 12% from Mockingjay Part 1; had it been released in 3D as internationally would take similar to first film
- Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur opened with $55.6m slightly disappointing opening but despite mixed reviews received A CinemaScore so likely to hold well over the coming weekends
3. Warner Bros’ Creed outperformed expectations taking $42.6m helped by strong reviews and nostalgia for first film release 39 years ago; received A CinemaScore played strongly to men over 25.
4. Sony Picture’s SPECTRE took $12.8m in 4th weekend total $176.1m 28% down from Skyfall.
5. 20th Century Fox’s Peanuts Movie took $9.7m and $116.8m.
Also released
20th Century Fox’s Victor Frankenstein opened with $3.4m having one of the worst opening of all time for a studio release; received C CinemaScore will drop heavily next week.
On limited released
The Danish Girl –Focus – took $181,000 from 4 screens.
Carol – Weinstein Co – second weekend took $203,076 from 4 screens total $588,355.
