Top 5 Breakdown

1. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – £4,494,727 – £37,886,438

After 17 days on release, Fantastic Beasts has overtaken both Suicide Squad and Batman Vs superman: Dawn of Justice to become Warner Bros biggest film of 2016 and their biggest film in the UK since The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (£40.33m).

 Dropping 50% in its third weekend and surprisingly held on to top spot against the arrival of Disney’s Moana which most expected to top the weekend box office. Was the sixth film this year to hold top spot for three weeks and has become the fifth biggest film of the year behind Deadpool, Finding Dry, The Jungle Book and Bridget Jones’s Baby it should top all four but the question is will it be before or after Rogue One.

This again shows the importance of being the first family movie released as the first film opening normally has the advantage over the film that follows except for Zootropolis against Kung Fu Panda 3 in March and Trolls against Storks in October. In the summer had The BFG opened the week after Finding Dory it would have taken a lot less than it did but as it opened the weekend before gave The BFG the foundations to be able to hold against Finding Dory.

After three weeks, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is still performing like Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire which took £4.82m in its fourth weekend with a total of £37m lost top spot in its fourth weekend against Disney’s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe opened with £8.84m but Fantastic Beasts will hold top for its fourth weekend.

Fantastic Beasts is likely to do like Goblet of Fire over coming weeks ending with a similar box office.

		3 WE	3WE T	drop	4WE	4WET	Drop	5 WE	5WET	drop
HP and the Goblet of Fire	18 Nov 2005	£4.82m	£37m	48%	£2.14	£40.5	56%	£1.01	£42.3	52%

But of course, can’t compare the two films 11 years apart as average ticket prices are over 60% more (using UK Cinema Association figures) so while Goblet of Fire had 10,339,703 admissions in 2005 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 6,400,000 11 years later 38% less. As exhibitors always say they don’t make much money from cinema tickets thats 3.939,703 less tickets sold which is probably 2m+ less tubs of popcorn and soft drinks.

HP and the Philosopher’s Stone	16 Nov 2001	£16.33	24.7%	£66.1	4.04x	£8.36	49%	£29.1	£5.8	31%	£38.1
HP and the Chamber of Secrets	15 Nov 2002	£18.71	34.1%	£54.8	2.92x	£7.31	61%	£30.0	£4.6	26%	£37.1
HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban	31 May 2004	£23.88	51.8%	£46.1	1.78x	£4.29	82%	£31.5	£3.3	23%	£36.5
HP and the Goblet of Fire	18 Nov 2005	£14.93	24.6%	£48.7	3.26x	£9.27	38%	£29.6	£4.8	48%	£37.0
HP and the Order of the Phoenix	12 July 2007	£16.49	28.4%	£58	3.51x	£6.63	60%	£30.1	£2.8	57%	£37.8
HP and the Half-Blood Prince	15 July 2009	£19.78	39.1%	£50.7	2.56x	£5.17	74%	£33.1	£2.9	44%	£40.5
HP and the Deathly Hallows P1	19 Nov 2010	£18.31	35.1%	£52.2	2.85x	£8.34	54%	£33.2	£3.7	55%	£39.1
HP and the Deathly Hallows P2	15 July 2011	£23.75	32.4%	£73.1	3.07x	£8.52	64%	£44.2	£4.5	46%	£55.2

 

HP and the Philosopher’s Stone	16 Nov 2001	£16.33	3,944,445	£4.14	£66.1m	15,966,183
HP and the Chamber of Secrets	15 Nov 2002	£18.71	4,361,305	£4.29	£54.8m	12,773,893
HP and the Prisoner of Azkaban	31 May 2004	£23.88	5,318,485	£4.49	£46.1m	10,267,261
HP and the Goblet of Fire	18 Nov 2005	£14.93	3,169,852	£4.71	£48.7m	10,339,703
HP and the Order of the Phoenix	12 July 2007	£16.49	3,265,347	£5.05	£58m	11,485,148
HP and the Half-Blood Prince	15 July 2009	£19.78	3,636,030	£5.44	£50.7m	9,319,853
HP and the Deathly Hallows P1	19 Nov 2010	£18.31	3,077,311	£5.95	£52.2m	8,773,109
HP and the Deathly Hallows P2	15 July 2011	£23.75	3,919,142	£6.06	£73.1m	12,062,707
Fantastic Beasts and.	18 Nov 2016	£15.33	2,044,000	£7.50	29.99m	3,998,667

2. Moana – £2,214,898 – NE

After having the third biggest Thanksgiving opening in the US last weekend and receiving positive reviews Moana was expected to give Fantastic Beasts a good battle to top spot but instead had one of the worst openings for a Disney animated film since 2010’s The Princess and the Frog opened with £2.23m.

The opening was far lower than Disney’s Zootropolis opened in March £5.3m but it benefited from weekend previews and opening on Good Friday. But also lower than last year’s The Good Dinosaur opened with £2.93m last November.

While nowadays it’s hard to compare Moana’s opening with other animated film openings this year as all others apart from The Angry Birds Movie are inflated with weekend previews The Angry Birds Movie had a similar opening £2.12m in May against the third weekend of Captain America: Civil War taking £2.77m.

As with The Angry Birds Movie, Moana opening at the start of December is limited to weekend matinees for the next couple of weeks and will be hoping for strong holdover over the next two weekends; The Angry Birds Movie dropped only 7% in its second weekend with no competition for Moana for the next month likely to hold well and perform strongly throughout Christmas. How Moana holds over the next couple of weeks will see if it can break away from its final box office of The Angry Birds Movie (x4.86) £10.31m as even if Moana was to hold close to Finding Dory x5.26 or The BFG x5.79 would be looking around £11.05m to £12.2m.

Many compared it to Frozen as it opened three weeks after it opened having a Let It Go like ballad if it was to hold similar would be looking at x8.32 opening with the final box office of around £17.47m; Frozen dropped only 11% in its second weekend in December 2013.

Always a hard time to open a family film at the start of December as your limited to Sat/Sun box office for three weeks; last year Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur opened with £2.91m in 2014 dropping 41.7% in its second weekend taking £1.69m and £5.12m. Even Paddington which opened with £5.11m the same weekend in 2014 dropped 26% in its second weekend and 24% in its third weekend but then doubled its box office adding £15.1m over the two lucrative weeks of Christmas holidays; while Frozen added £18.55m over the same period in 2013.

This year while having the likes of Rogue One, Passengers, Why Him? there is only Monster Trucks targeting younger children this Christmas it was surprising Universal Pictures delayed Illumination Entertainment’s Sing from December 21^st to January 27^th as two weeks of lucrative Christmas holidays even with the competition would still be better than an equally busy end of January one week of half term.

		OWE T	Previews	WE BO
Kung Fu Panda 3	11th Mar 2016	£4.7m	£1.5m	£3.2m
Zootropolis	25th Mar 2016	£5.3m	£1.7m	£3.6m
The Angry Birds Movie	13th May 2016	£2.2m	n/a	n/a
The Secret Life of Pets	24th June 2016	£9.5m	£3.6m	£5.9m
Ice Age: Collusion Course	15th July 2016	£3.7m	£2.3m	£1.4m
Storks	14th Oct 2016	£2.2m	£972,000	£1.3m
Trolls	21st Oct 2016	£5.4m	£2.4m	£3.01m

Previous Disney Animation opening in the UK (hard to compare with Moana as many were inflated with previews while others had platform release before going wide)

Zootropolis	25 March 2016	£5.30m	x4.45	22.4%	£23.61m
Big Hero 6	30 January 2015	£4.29m	x4.5	22.1%	£19.34m
Frozen	6 December 2013	£4.70m	x8.32	12.0%	£39.14m
Wreck-It Ralph	8 February 2013	£4.52m	x4.78	20.9%	£21.61m
Winnie the Pooh	15 April 2011	£159,369	x3.16	31.6%	£504,076
Tangled	28 January 2011	£5.10m	x3.91	25.5%	£19.97m
The Princess and the Frog	5 February 2010	£2.23m	x4.92	20.2%	£10.99m
Bolt	6 February 2008	£5.45m	x3.25	30.7%	£17.74m
Meet the Robinsons	30 March 2007	£895,955	x4.9	20.4%	£4.39m
Chicken Little	10 February 2005	£3.17m	x4.19	23.8%	£13.29m
Home on the Range	6 August 2004	£198,226	x7.2	13.8%	£1.43m
Brother Bear	5 December 2003	£887,321	x6.08	16.4%	£5.40m
Treasure Planet	14 February 2003	£888,084	x7.28	13.7%	£6.47m
Lilo & Stitch	4 October 2002	£1.51m	x8.53	11.7%	£12.89m

3. Sully: Miracle on the Hudson – £1,786,844 – NE

Having a similar opening to last year’s Tom Hanks Bridge of Spies which opened with £1.67m going on to take £7.79; dropped 35.4% in its second weekend taking £1.08m and £3.88m total with positive reviews and good word of mouth and no competition until the arrival of Rogue One in two weeks’ time should hold similar this weekend.

While Christopher Nolan, J.J. Abrams, and Zack Snyder have shot parts of their films in IMAX Clint Eastwood was the first to shoot most a film using IMAX Alexa 6K camera for almost the whole film except for a couple of simulator shots. IMAX Alexa 6K was also for Doctor Strange and upcoming Transformers: The Last Knight and Avengers: Infinity Wars.

Sully was Clint Eastwood’s second biggest opening in the UK after American Sniper which opened with £2.53m in January 2015 going on to take £13.62m.

In the US Warner Bros opened Sully early September a week (weekend of the 15^th anniversary of the September 11^th attacks) after receiving its world premiere at Telluride Film Festival where it received positive reviews from critics. Opening first it gave Sully a chance to cement its place in the box office against many other adult dramas released over the following weeks becoming the highest performing film of the Fall ahead of The Magnificent Seven, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, The Accountant and The Girl on the Train many of which cannibalized themselves.

In the UK Warner Bros chose to be the last adult drama to be released of the autumn allowing space for Inferno in October like 2013 when Captain Philips and Saving Mr Banks both premiered during the London Film Festival Captain Philips opened immediately after opening while Saving Mr Banks opening 6 weeks after.

Sully was surprisingly absent from the London Film Festival gala screenings but was screened at the Surprise Film.

Tom Hanks has become to be lovingly known as America’s dad after starring in so many regular guy, turned hero films including Philadelphia, Forrest Gump (£15.8m), Apollo 13 (£10.9m), Saving Private Ryan (£18.7m), Castaway (£14.4m), Road to Perdition (£6.4m) and Catch Me if You Can (£14.6m). In the film, he says Sully says, “I don’t feel like a hero. I was just a man doing a job,” After so many arrogant superhero movies wearing tights and lycra Sully is the perfect antidote about a regular guy with no superhero powers who saves the lives of all the passengers and crew on his flight going against protocol.

After winning two Best Actor Oscars for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump over following years he has continued to star in so many classic movies and would hope that soon he will win his deserving third Best Actor Oscar.

On paper Sully directed by Oscar winner Clint Eastwood and starring Tom Hanks about a regular guy who saves the lives of 155 passengers and crew would be an award contender but there are many other films that will likely overshadow it; Manchester By The Sea, Loving, Moonlight, Fences, La La Land, Jackie, Silence, Lion, Arrival, Live By Night and The Founder are all likely to be ahead of Sully which could still get a nomination for Best Film if there are eight nominees chosen.

4. Allied – £672,146 – £2,870,636

Dropping 50.1% in its second weekend while overtaking Robert Zemeckis’s last film The Walk last year still far from the success of his other films.

Robert Zemeckis’ last film The Walk’s opened in October 2015 with £795,115 dropping 83% in its second weekend taking only £135,374 with a total of £1.25m; in February 2013 Flight opened with £1.4m dropping 34% taking £925,049 with a total of £3.18m going on to take £4.69m.

Brad Pitt’s last role was in the ensemble The Big Short opened with £1.25m in January 2016 dropping 26% in its second weekend taking £959,765 taking £3.03m going on to take £5.49m.

Allied has been compared to Brad Pitt’s Mr and Mrs Smith which opened in comparison with £3.94m in June 2005 dropping 60% in its second weekend taking £1.58m and £7.56m.

Comparing Allied to Brad Pitt’s other World War II films

Fury after opening with £2.69m in October 2014 dropped 54% in its second weekend £1.24m and £5.6m total.

Inglourious Basterds after opening £3.59m in August 2009 dropped 65% in its second weekend taking £1.27m and £6.63m total.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button opening with £2.21m in February 2009 dropped 20% in its second weekend taking £1.77m and £5.1m total.

Fifteen years ago, weekend after Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone opened Brad Pitt’s Spy Game opened with £1.01m dropping 34% in its second weekend £669,417 going on to take £3.9m; Allied should beat its box office but is far from the success it was with ticket prices 81% more than they were; in 2001 admissions, would have been 942,028 Vs 520,000 today if Allied was to match Spy Game’s box office.

5. Pitbull: Tough Women – £456,475 – NE

Polish film based on TV series shown between 2005-2008; sequel to Pitbull: New Orders which had the biggest opening in Poland of the year with 211,091 admissions.

With 916,000 Polish people now living in the UK like the Indian population, the addition of Polish films to mainstream cinemas is like about 20 years ago, when Indian films crossed over from opening at only independent Indian owned cinemas to all cinemas.

Pitbull: Tough Women opened in 105 Odeon cinemas, Pitbull: New Orders opened in April £145,995 from 32 screens.

Other box office news

This weekend’s top 10 box office took £8,942,870; down 37.6% from last weekend £14,354,043;

Weekend admissions 1,725,396 down 18.3% from last weekend 1,408,715

The weekend was down 1.3% from same weekend last year (£9,062,765) Christmas with the Coopers £682,736. Victor Frankenstein £430,713, Krampus £412,353 opened.

Same weekend opening in 2014: Penguins of Madagascar opened with £1.6m, Get Santa £575,000 and St Vincent £386,640 opened.

Next weekend in 2015: By The Sea £24,770 and Grandma £36,000 opened.

A recent survey said average ticket price was £8.24 (the same cost as 13 pints of cider) up from Cinema Exhibitors Association average ticket price of £7.21 for 2015 a 7.3% increase from 2014.

 Complete UK Box office top 10 – December 2^nd-4^th 2016 

US Box Office

1. Disney – Moana – drops 49.9% – $28.3m – $119.8m; many compared Moana with Disney’s Frozen after its second weekend its weekend box office and its total is 10% down from Frozen;

2. Warner Bros – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them – drops 58.9% -$18.5m – $183.5m;

3. Paramount Pictures – Arrival – drops 36.3% – $7.3m – $73.1m;

4. Paramount Pictures – Allied – drops 44.5% – $7.1m – $28.9m;  

5. Disney – Doctor Strange – drops 52.6% – $6.4m – $215.3m; becoming the 24^th biggest comic-book movie in the US; comparing with other comic-book movies after five weeks likely to add about 5% of its box office over its remaining weeks on release adding $10.5m to its box office ending on $224m ahead of 23^rd biggest film Big Hero 6 $22.5m.

6. 20^th Century Fox – Trolls – drops 56.8% – $4.6m – $141.3m; now the 66^th biggest animated film in the US in touching distance of beating Kung Fu Panda 3; after 5 weeks on release will likely add another $10m to its box office which could see it becoming 20^th Century Fox’s 8^th biggest animated film in the US;

7. Lionsgate – Hacksaw Ridge – drops 38.4% – $3.4m – $57.2m;

8. Broad Green – Bad Santa 2 – drops 46.8% – $3.2m – $14.2m; as expected after poor word of mouth dropped heavily in its second weekend taking 48% less than Bad Santa $27.3m took in 2003 likely to end taking over 50% less than first film;

9. High Top – Incarnate – opens $2.6m; ,

10. Universal – Almost Christmas – down 56.1% – $2.5m – $38.1m;

On limited release expansion

A24 – Moonlight –  drops 24.9% – $915,750 –  dropping 44 screens – total $9.89m

Focus – Loving – down 41.2% – $997,000 – adding 25 screens – total $5.59m

Focus – Nocturnal Animals – drops 18% – $686,095 – $2.7m

 Roadshow Attractions – Manchester By the Sea – up 92.8% – $2.36m – adding 108 screens – $4.42m

Opening on limited release

Fox Searchlight – Jackie – opens with $275,000 from 5 screens;

Main opening Friday weekend predictions:

Opening UK

• Office Christmas Party – eOne

Christmas comedy starring Jason Bateman, Olivia Munn, T. J. Miller, Jillian Bell, Courtney B. Vance, Kate McKinnon and Jennifer Aniston directed by Josh Gordon & Will Speck and based on a story by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore.

From the writers of The Hangover and Bad Moms comes Project X (opened in 2012 with £561,655 taking £2.1m) with adults a gross-out Christmas party film like Horrible Bosses the first film opened with £2.1m in 2011 taking £10m but sequel disappointed opening with £1.25m taking £3.6m.

These comedies often open with similar box office

Get Hard opened with £1.43m in March 2015 taking £5.32m;

We’re the Millers opened with £1.5m in August 2013 taking £8.07m;

Identity Thief opened with £1.31m opened in March 2013 taking £4.71m

One of the best office-based comedy never was released theatrically in the UK after flopping in the US Mike Judge’s Office Space like his 2006 film Idiocracy have become cult hits. After Donald Trump became President-elect many are now predicting Idiocracy as a historical documentary of the future of the US.

• Birth of a Nation – 20^th Century Fox

Period drama based on the story of Nat Turner; starring Nate Parker, Armie Hammer, Aja Naomi King, Jackie Earle Haley, Penelope Ann Miller and Gabrielle Union and directed by Nate Parker (his directorial debut).

Since receiving its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival in January winning the Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize after receiving positive reviews; Fox Searchlight acquired world rights for $17.5m after the outcry with #OscarsSoWhite positioned it as the Oscar favourite for next year.

The teaser trailer was released in April with the trailer in June both received positively.

But then in August 1999 rape charges resurfaced against Parker who was acquitted in 2001 which put the film under scrutiny and what was odds on Oscar success was put in doubt overshadowed its US opening becoming another Sundance Film Festival acquisition failure after opening in October in the US with $7m and has taken $15.8m.

Was originally dated for a January 2017 awards slot for the UK but after its failure in the US 20^th Century Fox brought its release forward so they could concentrate award efforts on Hidden Figures

• Snowden – Vertigo

Biographical political thriller directed by Oliver Stone featuring an ensemble cast Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Tom Wilkinson, Scott Eastwood, Logan Marshall-Green, Timothy Olyphant, Rhys Ifans and Nicolas Cage.

Was originally set for December 25^th 2015 release then delayed to May 14^th 2016 before finally September 16^th. It was invited to compete at the Cannes Film Festival, festival’s director, Thierry Frémaux calling it as really good film but as producers wanted to position it for Oscars Cannes was too early instead choosing to world premiere at Toronto Film Festival receiving positive reviews and then European premiere at the 64th San Sebastián Film Festival with UK premiere at London Film Festival in October.

Many critics have said its Oliver Stone’s best film since 1995’s Nixon which was a box office disappointment. Oliver Stone’s biggest box office success was 30 years ago, Platoon his second film with many of his other films doing similar at the box office 1989’s Born on the Fourth of July, 1991’s JFK, 1999’s Any Given Sunday and 2006’s World Trade Centre.

The first teaser trailer was released in June 2015 which was the perfect teaser like Beauty and the Beast teaser doing what a teaser trailer is there to do without the need to showing any footage. The second trailer released in April 2016 with a third released in July after an invite-only screening at Comic-Con.

Received mixed reviews from critics opening in fourth in September behind Blair Witch and Bridget Jones’s Baby and the second weekend of Sully; it was the lowest opening for an Oliver Stone film opening in over 2,000 screens.

Was originally developed by Pathe and normally would have held on to UK rights but was surprising didn’t hold on to them with Vertigo Films releasing instead. While the film has generated much media interest due to the subject matter it’s unlikely to find an audience at the cinema like Julian Assange film The Fifth Estate opened with £118,397 in October 2013.

Snowden is Oliver Stone’s first film since Savages in 2012 and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps in 2010 which both underperformed at the box office. Snowden returns the director to more controversial real-life events he was developing a film about Martin Luther King Jr with Jamie Foxx but then met Edward Snowden in January 2014 a few months later acquired rights to books The Snowden Files by Luke Harding and Time of the Octopus by Anatoly Kucherena.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt last film The Walk was a major disappointment was seen for months last year as the big autumn movie but then was gazumped by The Martian.

Oliver Stone’s last films Savages opened with £379,898 in September 2012 and Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps opened with £675,549 in October 2010; W opened with £183,065 in November 2008; World Trade Centre was Oliver Stone’s last big opening with £1.66m in September 2008.

Oliver Stone like Robert Zemeckis directed classic movies as Platoon, Wall Street, JFK, Natural Born Killers and Any Given Sunday which was his last major box office success 17 years ago

Opening US

• Office Christmas Party – Paramount

The fifth comedy film starring Jennifer Anniston and Jason Bateman ten years after their first The Break-Up, 2010’s The Switch, 2011’s Horrible Bosses and 2014’s Horrible Bosses followed. In Office Christmas Party, they lead an ensemble cast Kate McKinnon (Ghostbusters and but probably better known for her Hillary Clinton impersonations on Saturday Night Live), Olivia Munn (Sloan Sabbith in Aaron Sorkin’s underrated The Newsroom), Rob Corddry (Ballers), and T.J. Miller (Silicon Valley).

After a lack of comedy films this year and the recently poor Bad Santa 2 Office Christmas Party and Why Him? opening three weeks later could give audiences something different from the sci-fi and dramas after the success last Christmas of Daddy’s Home there is room for a comedy to get audiences laughing again and Office Christmas Party starring many great TV comedians could be the one that does it.

Jennifer Aniston’s last hit comedy were 2011’s Horrible Bosses and 2013’s We’re the Millers but apart from 2014’s Horrible Bosses 2 the films she has starred in since weren’t as high profile. The same can be said for Jason Bateman last success was 2013’s Identity Thief, 2014’s underrated ensemble This is Where I Leave You disappointed at the box office. 

Office Christmas Party from the writers of The Hangover would expect similar as well as from 1984 Tom Hanks comedy Bachelor Party with several memorable scenes from that film seen in Office Christmas Party including a donkey. Bachelor Party opened a few months after Splash which launched his acting career which 32 years later is still going strong.

 

• La La Land – Lionsgate (on limited release)

Romantic musical drama starring Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, and Rosemarie DeWitt and directed by Damien Chazelle; it is the third film to star Gosling and Stone after Crazy, Stupid, Love and Gangster Squad.

Was originally set for release July 15^th which would have seen it open against Ghostbusters in March its release was moved to December as its director wanted the film to build up its awareness and buzz at film festivals receiving its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September has received critical acclaim and seen as Oscar favourite. Has also screened at Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, London Film Festival and AFI Fest.

Musicals have had mixed success at the box office over recent years most recent Sing Street and The Last 5 years had limited release.

The last wide release musical was 2014’s Into the Woods opening $31.1m taking $128m but previous three also released in 2014 disappointed at the box office Annie opening with $15.8m taking $85.9m and Jersey Boys $13.3m taking $47.1m and Muppets Most Wanted $17m taking $51.1m. In 2012 Les Miserables was a success and Oscar winner opening $27.2m taking $148.8m but Rock of Ages flopped opening $14.4m taking $38.5m.

These except for Muppet Most Wanted were based on existing musicals the last original musical 2010’s Burlesque disappointed opening $11.9m taking $39.4m. The last original musical which was a success at the box office was 2001’s Moulin Rouge taking $57.3m. So, despite the wide critical acclaim for La La Land will that cross over into mainstream audiences or will teens prefer to watch gross-out Office Christmas Party.  

My concern with La La Land is like Damien Chazelle’s previous film Whiplash which received similar critical acclaim in 2014 but failed to find a cinema audience despite similar months of build-up to its opening.

Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling are two of actors on the rise over the last nine years since her breakthrough role in Superbad has starred in many films including Zombieland, Easy A, Crazy Stupid Love, The Help, The Amazing Spider-Man, The Croods, Magic in the Moonlight, Irrational Man and Birdman which she received a Best Supporting Actress nomination. Next, up she stars as Billie Jean King in Battle of the Sexes starring alongside her Crazy Stupid Love co-star Steve Carrell due for release in 2017. Will follow with the live-action spin-off to 101 Dalmatians Cruella De Vil.

Ryan Gosling’s breakthrough role was 2001’s The Believer but it was in 2004’s The Notebook audiences fell in love with him is still his second biggest film behind Crazy Stupid Love. Away from those two films, his films have been more critically successful than box office Half Nelson. Lars and the Real Girl, Blue Valentine, Drive and Ides of March. Much was expected with his 2012 film Gangster Squad but then came the shocking events of Aurora and the trailers were pulled from cinemas and film delayed while it was reshot. Most recently he starred in ensemble comedy The Big Shot and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang sorta sequel The Nice Guys. Next up stars in the long in development Bladerunner sequel will be his biggest film to date.