Top 5 Breakdown
1 – The Revenant £2,273,772 – total £16,089,864
2D took £2,137,894 – total £15,543,024 – IMAX took £135,878 – total £546,840
Down 40.9% in its third weekend is continuing to perform similarly to The Wolf of Wall Street in 2014 only 4% down from its third weekend box office but its total is 7.6% ahead.
After Leonardo DiCaprio won SAG Best Actor yesterday he is likely to add BAFTA Best Actor in two weeks before finally winning his Best Actor Oscar at the end of the month will likely keep allow The Revenant to hold its own against the flood of new releases over the next two weeks.
Will lose top spot this weekend similar to The Wolf of Wall Street but should now beat The Wolf of Wall Street’s £22.7m.
2 – Dirty Grandpa – £1,440,811 -NE
Not including the £604,675 taken Monday – Thursday still opened in second place despite getting the worst reviews probably since the equally dreadful Movie 43.
Mark Kermode gave its predictable ranting review on Friday more out of the shock that it starring Robert De Niro and Zac Efron two actors he admired in the past.
Likely to drop heavily this weekend.
Lionsgate created an “gobsmacked” advert poster with made up quotes.
3 – Star Wars: The Force Awakens – £1,330,167 – total £119,424,877
(2D 75.4%) 2D £1,003,737 total £70,642,219 (59.1% of total)
(3D 7.3%) 3D took £97,220 total £34,444,776 (28.8% of total)
(IMAX 17.2%) IMAX 3D £229,209 total £13,972,559 (11.6% of total)
Dropped 33.1% in its seventh weekend
What else can be said that hasn’t been said in the last seven weeks after holding well in the last couple of weekend will likely drop below £1m next weekend. In comparison Avatar had 11 weeks of £1m+ weekends holding top spot till March 5th.
After speeding past $1 billion worldwide in just over a week it has taken far longer to taken $2 billion worldwide will likely stumble past this week. Most people expected it to beat Avatar and be the biggest film ever but instead it will just sneak past Titanic but it can’t be compared with a film that was released 18 years ago.
The success of Star Wars has pushed Disney ahead of Lego to the top of Brand Finance 2015 World’s Most Powerful Brands’ list.
Was announced this week its US DVD release would be on April 5th likely to be released on digital and via the Sky Store and Disney Life on March 21st in time for Easter.
4 – Ride Along 2 £1,309,774- total £4,199,897
Dropping only 38.5% in its second weekend; a few years ago would of likely dropped heavily in its second weekend but shows how the profiles of both Ice Cube and Kevin Hart have increased in the past year thanks to films like Straight Outta Compton and Get Hard.
Its box office is almost 50% more than the first film released in 2014
5 – Spotlight – £1,054,466 – NE
Since premiering at the Toronto Film Festival in September Spotlight has generated strong buzz with great reviews receiving many nominations and awards along the way including 6 Oscar Nominations and 3 BAFTA nominations.
Its opening was then slightly disappointing probably cannibalized by several films aimed at the same audience. But opening on only 241 screens it will likely expanding this coming weekend hoping to build on strong word of mouth and BAFTA awards on Sunday.
Similar to Creed many would have expected Spotlight would of opened stronger but could hold better during the week as these films often perform stronger aimed at older audiences who prefer going to cinema during the week.
Other box office news:
Also opened
Youth – Studiocanal – £265,249 from 105 screens
13 Hours – Paramount – £238,000 from 307 screens one of Michael Bay’s lowest ever openings.
The 33 – Warner Bros – £26,208 from 103 screens
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This weekend’s top 10 box office took £13,532,704
Down 31.4% from last weekend £10,690,982 was down 23.1% from same weekend last year. (£13,890,596) when Big Hero 6 £4,291,285, Kingsman: The Secret Service £4,235,456, Inherent Vice £360,497 and Les Contes D’Hoffman £237,910 opened.
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This weekend last year opened Shaun the Sheep opened with £2,083,049, Jupiter Ascending £1,345,097, Selma £709,381 and The Interview £281,916.
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Complete UK Box office top 10 – January 29th – 31st 2016
US Box Office Top 10 January 29th-31st
1- 20th Century Fox – Kung Fu Panda 3 opened with $41m; received A CinemaScore.
2- 20th Century Fox – The Revenant held well dropping only 22.5% $12.4m $138.1m total.
3-Disney – Star Wars: The Force Awakens $10.7m down 23.4% in sixth w/e $895.4m to date;
4 -Disney’s – The Finest Hours opened with $10.3m; received A- CinemaScore.
5- Universal Pictures – Ride Along 2 dropped 33% with $8.3m and $70.7m total.
6- SFX – The Boy dropped 26.8% with $7.8m and $21.5m total.
7 -Lionsgate – Dirty Grandpa dropped 31.8% $7.5m with $22.8m total.
8 -Sony Pictures – The 5th Wave dropped 32.2% with $7m and $20.1m total.
9 -Open Road – 50 Shades of Black opened with $6.1m; received C CinemaScore.
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10 -Paramount Pictures 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi $6m down 33.6% – $42.5m.
Also opening
Weinstein’s Jane Got A Gun – $803,000
2016 Oscar Nominated Shorts – $505,000
On limited released
IFC- 45 Years up 195.4% adding 55 screens $472,256 and $1,258,441 total.
Paramount – Anomalisa added 26 screens down 2.6% took $355,000 and $1.9m total.
Sony Classics – The Lady in the Van +83.7% adding 20 screens $321,972 total $743,205.