1. Glass – £3,423,380 – NE

Included £100,000 from previews
Opened 16% more than The Village; 34% more than Split; 52% more than After Earth; 71% more than Unbreakable; 110% more than The Happening; 232% more than The Visit; but 9% less than Signs while The Sixth Sense took 28% more in its second weekend as first was platform.
Had the 39^th biggest opening in the UK between The Fault in Our Stars and Paranormal Activity 3 (close to Cloverfield, Paranormal Activity, The Matrix and Die Hard with a Vengeance) and 527^th biggest inflation inflated opening between Lucy and Black Swan ( close to Final Destination 3, Scream, Unbreakable and Demolition Man)
M Night Shyamalan’s second biggest opening after 2002’s Signs but The Sixth Sense had one week exclusive at the Odeon Leicester Square before going wide taking £4,792,296.
Split opened January 2017 with £2,548,516 taking £11,018,069
Unbreakable opened December 2000 with £2,004,890 (£3,412,870 inflation inflated) taking £11,222,712 (inflation inflated £19,563,228)
Selective other M. Night Shyamalan openings
The Sixth Sense opened November 1999 with £4,792,296 (£8,730,858 inflation inflated) taking £25,407,279 (£46,288,321 inflation inflated).
Signs opened September 2002 with £3,767,713 (£6,578,128 inflation inflated) taking £16,084,656 (£28,082,535 inflation inflated)
The Village opened August 2004 with £2,945,763 (£4,913,979 inflation inflated) taking £9,980,280 (£16,648,619 inflation inflated)
The Happening opened June 2008 with £1,632,055 (£2,350,787 inflation inflated) taking £3,895,001 (£5,610,300 inflation inflated)
After Earth opened June 2013 with £2,249,532 taking £6,137,273
The Visit opened September 2015 with £1,031,292 taking £2,805,591
Night Shyamalan financed Glass with Universal Pictures acquiring US rights and Disney international with a budget of $20m but with global P&A similar to $80m of Split; Split had a budget of $9m and took $278m worldwide with a global profit of $68m, Glass is expected to be not nearly as profitable.

2. Mary Queen of Scots – £2,082,160 – NE

Had the 666^th biggest opening in the UK between Limitless and Dad’s Army (close to Rush, The Fighter, Batman and Burn After Reading) and 901^st biggest inflation inflated between Happy Feet 2 and The Last Airbender (close to State of Play, Sliding Doors, The Lovely Bones and Love and Other Drugs).
It could be the third part of the Elizabeth Extended Universe from and prequel to 1998’s Elizabeth opened on platform with £166,174 taking £5.1m (£9.4m inflation inflated) and 2007’s Elizabeth: The Golden Age opened November 2007 with £1.34m taking £4.98m
Had its world premiere at AFI Fest In Los Angeles in November and UK premiere in London 10th December, as with Les Miserables in 2012 and Darkest Hour in 2017 Universal Pictures opted to hold the UK premiere over a month before the opening (with Christmas in the middle and award ceremonies is probably due to talent availability).
Other British historical films include 2009’s The Young Victoria opened with £847,740 taking £4,694,925; The Duchess in 2008 opened with £1,402,200 taking £6,913,447; Victoria & Abdul last year opened with £1.84m taking £9.94m
Saoirse Ronan starred in the critically acclaimed Lady Bird and On Chesil Beach last year and will next star in Little Women remake. Margot Robbie stared in last year’s I, Tonya and voiced Flopsy in Peter Rabbit, this year stars also in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and voices Haley Quinn in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part before starring as her again in Birds of Prey next year.
Mary Queen of Scots only received three BAFTA nominations with Saoirse Ronan missing out and Margot Robbie getting Best Supporting actress this compares to The Favourite receiving 12 nominations this year and Elizabeth the first part of the Elizabeth Extended Universe receiving 12 and winning 5.
The film has been criticised for its historically inaccuracies in Mary Queen of Scots as it showed Mary meeting her cousin Elizabeth, who eventually signed the Scots queen’s death warrant, but this meeting never happened. They never met and were rivals from the start, with Mary seeing Elizabeth as her inferior. Last year Working Title were also criticised for historically inaccuracies in Darkest Hour but despite those inaccuracies still was nominated for Oscars and BAFTAs.
Mary Queen of Scots wasn’t showing in Vue Cinemas over its opening week probably due to a similar dispute between Vue Cinemas with Universal as they had with Warner Bros in October which saw A Star Is Born not showing in 90 Vue Cinemas in its opening week. As with A Star is Born the dispute Vue have is likely to do with an upcoming film release as they also don’t have advance bookings for How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World opening February 1st unlike other similar chains.

3. Stan and Ollie – £1,791,697 – £6,096,816

Down 30.5% in its second weekend
410^th biggest second weekend between San Andreas and Transformers: Age of Extinction (close to Calendar Girls, The Impossible, Billy Elliot and The Pursuit of Happyness) and 587^th biggest second weekend between You, Me and Depree and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (close to True Grit, Road to Perdition, Walk the Line and Lost in Translation.
12^th biggest eOne second weekend between Streetdance and The Post and 24^th biggest eOne film in the UK between Divergent and Now You See Me 2.
The Artist in January 2012 took £688,546 in its third weekend (second wide in only 112 screens) and £1,888,327 slowly expanded to 320 screens after 10 weeks on release taking £9,296,740
Philomena dropped only 6.7% in its second weekend in November 2013 with £1,407,318 and £4,762,182 taking £11.5m.
Chaplin opened in 147 cinemas in January 1993 £334,466 after showing exclusively at Odeon Leicester Square for 4 weeks taking £161,000 over 4 weeks; average ticket price in 1993 104,195 admissions was £3.21 140% less would be the equivalent of £800k today.
Stan and Ollie was one of the many films that was seen as a potential award contender but only received one Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor John C. Reilly Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and received three BAFTA awards including Best British Film and Best Actor for Steve Coogan; while the film was expected to receive award recognition in the UK it was always going to be harder challenge to do similar in the US.

4. Mary Poppins Returns – £1,668,638 – £40,699,643

Down 26.1% in its fifth weekend
69th biggest film in the UK between The Simpsons and Shrek The Third (overtaking Paddington, Love Actually and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason) and 98th biggest inflation inflated film between The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Deadpool.
21st biggest Disney film in the UK between Inside Out and Monsters, Inc. and 32nd biggest inflation inflated Disney film between Bruce Almighty and Captain America: Civil War (close to The Sixth Sense, Calendar Girls and High School Musical 3)

Ahead of Mary Poppins Returns opening box office experts were predicting it to hold similar to The Greatest Showman, but was unlikely as while critics called Mary Poppins Returns “practically perfect in every way” as they did Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again cinemagoers had a much more mixed opinion of the film. In comparison critics called The Greatest Showman and Bohemian Rhapsody as fake but cinemagoers enjoyed them much more, seeing them again and again.
By next weekend will become the 65th film to take £40m+ at the UK box office; currently the 8th biggest 2018 film after Avengers Infinity War, Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again, Incredibles 2, Black Panther, Bohemian Rhapsody, Peter Rabbit, Jurassic World 2
Fifth weekends
#2 Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again! dropped 37% taking £2,241,507 and £54,523,054 83.2% of £65.51m
#3 Bohemian Rhapsody dropped 27% taking £2,211,454 and £39,003,704 72.2% of £54mtotal (tbc)
#5 Bridget Jones’s Baby dropped 37% taking £1,888,986 and £41,991,553 87.2% of £48.15m
#4 The Greatest Showman dropped 3% taking £2,042,450 and £19,965,506 41.3% of £48.3m total
A few weeks ago most people would have expected Mary Poppins Returns to receive many BAFTA nominations especially being British and receiving critical acclaim but instead only received three nominations all in small categories while Bohemian Rhapsody received 7 including Best British Film.
Ahead of release while Mary Poppins Returns felt like another Disney memberries film still thought while it might not be as successful as original in the US, UK audiences will fall for it as they did earlier in the year for Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again with it becoming one of the biggest films of the year but now it won’t take £25m in 2018.
Similar fifth weekends
#2 Les Miserables dropped 41% in January 2013 with taking £1,640,857 and £33,456,340 81.9% of £40,818,299
#3 The Jungle Book dropped 24% in April 2016 taking £1,628,456 and £39,312,115 85.1% of £46,235,032
#5 Alice In Wonderland in March 2010 dropped 48% taking £1,285,889 and £37,940,131 89.1% of £42,588,048
#2 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in July 2005 dropped 34% taking £1,116,172 (£1,774,974 inflation inflated) and £33,251,095 (£52,877,007 89.1% of £37,296,621 (£60,735,686 inflation inflated)
#3 Slumdog Millionaire dropped 33% £1,587,819 (£2,186,170 inflation inflated) and £16,897,975 (£23,265,778 inflation inflated) 53.3% £31,664,346 (£43,596,682 inflation inflated)
#3 Love Actually dropped 42% £1,311,935 (£2,213,152 inflation inflated) and £27,871,625 (£47,017,674 inflation inflated) 77.3% £36,026,147 (£60,773,838 inflation inflated)
The Greatest Showman soundtrack had its 26th non-consecutive week at #1 last weekend having been in the top 5 for the past year but Mary Poppins Returns soundtrack has yet to enter in the album chart despite rave reviews from critics about the songs.
54 years ago Mary Poppins opened with critical acclaim and received 13 Oscar nominations (was a record for Disney at the time) and won five: Best Actress for Julie Andrews, Best Film Editing, Best Original Music Score, Best Visual Effects, and Best Original Song.
54 years later Mary Poppins Returns received similar critical acclaim, and many expected it to received a Best Picture nomination and Emily Blunt to be nominated for Best Actress instead was nominated for four all smaller categories Best Original Score, Best Original Song (The Place Where Lost Things Go), Best Production Design, and Best Costume Design, while Bohemian Rhapsody was nominated for Best Film and Best Actor.

5. The Favourite – £1,337,885 – £11,137,384

Down 43.5% in its third weekend
282nd biggest second weekend between Ready Player One and Aquaman (close to Cast Away, The Bodyguard, The Greatest Showman and The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) and 424th biggest second weekend inflation inflated between Due Date and Collateral (close to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Imitation Game and The Passion of the Christ)
110th biggest 20th Century Fox film between Horton Hears a Who and Dr. Dolittle 2 (close to Fantastic Mr. Fox, 127 Hours and Bridge of Spies) and 139th biggest inflation inflated film between Penguins of Madagascar and Predator (close to Valkyrie, 28 Weeks Later and The Shape of Water)
The Favourite had one of the best second weekend holds for a recent award contender; The King’s Speech held stronger and took 83% more as it only had one day of previews taking £226,803 compared to The Favourite taking £1,775,372 from 9 days of previews.
While The King’s Speech had less competition with The Green Hornet opening with £1,878,905 targetting a completely different demographic while The Favourite had Stan and Ollie aimed at similar audience.
Last year’s Oscar/BAFTA winners third weekends
Darkest Hour drop 19% taking £2,672,022 and £15,224,229
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri dropped 23% taking £1,249,691 and £7,605,591
Lady Bird dropped 24% taking £703,115 and £3,973,500
The Shape of Water dropped 54% taking £418,969 and £5,279,015
Tonya down dropped 26% taking £407,933 and £2,826,908
Other BAFTA/Oscar must see third weekends
2017’s La La Land down 23%; Manchester by the Sea down 16%; Lion down 13%
2016’s The Revenant down 26%; Room down 4%; The Big Short down 26%; Spotlight up 57%
2015’s The Theory of Everything down 16%; Birdman down 28%; Into the Woods down 19%; American Sniper down 0%; Whiplash 30%
2014’s American Hustle down 18%; 12 Years a Slave up 24%; The Wolf of Wall Street down 22%
2013’s Les Miserables down 46%; Lincoln down 17%; Zero Dark Thirty down 38%; Life of Pi up 48%
2012’s The Artist up 1199% (wide expansion); The Iron Lady down 31%; War Horse down 19%; Shame down 31%
2011’s The King’s Speech up 32%; 127 Hours down 19%; Black Swan 6%; The Fighter down 40%
Second weekends
Frances McDormand won last year for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri took £1,621,878 #6 down 31% and £5,232,135 taking £15,238,741
Emma Stone won in 2017 for La La Land opened with £6,596,256 (£943,672 previews) taking £29,816,588
The Favourite received 10 Oscar nominations joint top film with Roma also received 10 BAFTA nominations and is now favourite to win Best Actress and Supporting Actress awards at both, while Best Film and Best Director are likely to be shared between Roma and A Star Is Born.
January/February is much lighter with Oscar contenders this year than last year BlackkKlansman, A Star Is Born, McQueen, You Were Never Really Here, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Wife, Widows, First Man and Cold War have all been released and Roma on Netflix.
Remaining Oscar/BAFTA contenders Green Book, Stan & Ollie, Vice, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Beautiful Boy and Mary Queen of Scots aren’t likely to perform as strongly as last years Darkest Hour (£24.1m), The Shape of Water (£7.5m), Lady Bird (£5.3m), Phantom Thread £2.7m), The Post (£9.1m) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (£15.3m).
UK box office in detail
This weekend’s top 10 box office took £13,317,271 up 0.8 % from last weekend £13,204,230
The weekend admissions xx xx% from last weekend 1,762,915 average ticket up from last year’s £7.49 the industry will claim average ticket price has dropped 3.2% to £7.25 in 2018
11 films opened at weekend taking £6,023,195); Glass 56.8% (£3,423,380); Mary Queen of Scots 34.5% (£2,082,160); remaining 9 films shared 8.6x% (£517,655): Top three took 54.8% (£7,297,237) of the top 10; Glass (£3,423,380) 25.7%; Mary Queen of Scots (£2,082,160) 15.6%; Stan and Ollie (£1,791,697) 13.4%;
The weekend was down 33.7% from 2018: (£20,087,765); Coco (£5,209,214); The Post (£2,152,977); The Commuter (£1,602,680); Romeo and Juliet – Bolshoi 2018 (£181,834); #1 Coco (£5,209,214) 1st week
Up 2.66% from 2017: (£12,971,749); Split (£2,548,516); xXx: The Return of Xander Cage (£1,620,811); Lion (£1,265,282); Jackie (£662,900); Romeo et Juliette – Met Opera 2017 (£228,384); The Sleeping Beauty – Bolshoi 2017 (£218,668); #1 La La Land (£4,373,249) 2^nd week
Down 15.7% from 2016: (£15,806,711); The Revenant (£5,235,851); Creed (£2,221,758); Room (£674,033); Les Pecheurs de Perles – Met Opera 2016 (£354,738); #1 The Revenant (£5,235,851) 1^st week
Down 3.8% from 2015; (£13,848,440); American Sniper (£2,530,473); Whiplash (£573,546); Wild (£524,941); The Merry Widow – Met Opera 2015 (£463,195); Testament of Youth (£417,486); #1 Taken 3 (£3,295,309); 2^nd week
Down 11.4% from 2014: (£15,034,724); The Wolf of Wall Street (£4,655,984); Devil’s Due (£1,002,627); Tim’s Vermeer (£1,334); #1 The Wolf of Wall Street (£4,655,984) 1^st week
Up 6.4% from 2013: (£12,516,225); Django Unchained (£2,801,312); Monsters, Inc. 3D (£681,247); The Sessions (£84,899); V/H/S (£13,188); #1 Les Miserables (£4,406,828) 2^nd week
Up 20.4% from 2012 (£11,054,100); Haywire (£1,197,866); Underworld: Awakening (£1,114,327); The Sitter (£910,382); J. Edgar (£413,210); W.E. (£182,914); #1 War Horse (£3,202,493) 2^nd week (19% drop)
Up 3.1% from 2011 (£12,916,152); Black Swan (£2,762,429); The Dilemma (£1,102,798); Morning Glory (£524,356); N.E.D.S. (£283,210); Get Low (£4,608); #1 The King’s Speech (£4,226,074) 3^rd week (-4% drop)
Down 10.5% from 2010: (£14,882,462); Up In The Air (£1,298,023); The Book Of Eli (£1,232,001); All About Steve (£275,083); 44 Inch Chest (£152,171); #1 Avatar (£5,527,039) 5^th week (up 16%)
Up 10.6% from 2009; (£12,037,268); Seven Pounds (£1,565,949); My Bloody Valentine (£1,337,613); Beverly Hills Chihuahua (£1,028,983); The Wrestler (£802,046); #1 Slumdog Millionaire (£2,630,820) 1^st week (up 44%)
Up 42.4% from 2008; (£9,348,113); Alien vs. Predator 2 (£1,970,363); No Country for Old Men (£1,257,183); Walk Hard (£240,833); #1 Alien vs. Predator 2 (£1,970,363) 1^st week
Up 24.1% from 2007:(£10,737,948); Rocky Balboa (£3,639,339); The Return (£277,457); Black Book (£166,362); #1 Rocky Balboa (£3,639,339) 1^st week
Up 37.7% from 2006; (£9,668,855); Fun with Dick and Jane (£1,957,060); Underworld: Evolution (£1,146,779); Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (£803,489); A Cock and Bull Story (£332,582); #1 Fun with Dick and Jane (£1,957,060) 1^st week
Up 67.5% from 2005 (£7,950,505); Elektra (£791,914); Ray (£485,005); Ladder 49 (£428,077); A Very Long Engagement (£312,042); Dear Frankie (£57,214); #1 Closer (£1,587,136) 2^nd week (up 1%)
Up 36.8% from 2004 (£9,729,138); Paycheck (£927,212); Runaway Jury (£583,367); Girl with a Pearl Earring (£384,498); A Mighty Wind (£62,657); #1 Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (£2,377,268) 5^th week (36% drop)
Up 0.7% from 2003 (£13,216,953); 8 Mile (£4,440,334); Chicago (£1,983,505 expansion up 2,843%; The Transporter (£338,420); The Master Of Disguise (£60,077); #1 8 Mile (£4,440,334) 1^st week
Up 49.9% from 2002 (£8,882,363); Black Hawk Down (£1,772,920); Long Time Dead (£580,487); Iris (£378,749); #1 Lord of the Rings: Two Towers (£3,276,912) 5^th week (down 25%)
Next weekend in 2018: (£17,354,267); Maze Runner: The Death Cure (£2,247,915); Early Man (£2,020,653); Downsizing (£1,131,687); Padmaavat (£850,386); 12 Strong (£421,515); Tosca – Met Opera 2018 (£404,994); Last Flag Flying (£16,867); #1 Darkest Hour (£2,672,022) 3^rd week

Other Box Office News
UK admissions have finally increased after 15 years of no growth up 6.4m from last year and 1.1m from the previous high in 2002 of 175.9m despite box office down 0.01%; this increase sees admissions top 1971 176m to be the highest since 1970.
This is due to industry claiming average ticket price has dropped 3.6% from 37.49 to £7.22; while there have been selective cinemas dropping their prices including Vue in over 20 cinemas the vast majority of cinema pricing is still increasing. Only need to see the new cinema prices when Vue have reduced their ticket prices. While of course Odeon Leicester Square raised their top price seats to £40.75 (one Royal circle ticket equals 5.5 admissions).
The real reason why ticket prices have dropped is subscription cinema and Meerkat Cinema for £218 a year people can watch unlimited films at Cineworld or Odeon and many people are watching 50+ films a year. The only problem with this is that it affects cinema profits as last week Cineworld Cinemas announced a drop-in profits in the UK. With regular box office the exhibitor pays a fixed rental of which starts high and then drops the longer the film plays. With subscription cinemas its different the distributor negotiates an average ticket price but that gets bigger the longer the film plays. So for long play films or films that weren’t expected to be huge as with The Greatest Showman and Bohemian Rhapsody they will pay much more per ticket.
Also released

Bohemian Rhapsody = 20^th Century Fox
Took £630,734 down 37.7% in its 13^th weekend taking £51,141,113
Last week overtook Black Panther to become the fourth biggest 2018 release
Has become the 31^st biggest film in the UK between Marvel’s Avengers Assemble and Quantum of Solace and by next weekend will have overtaken 1997’s The Full Monty (£52,264,984) becoming 20^th Century Fox’s fourth biggest film in the UK after Avatar, Titanic and Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. It is the 64^th biggest inflation inflated between Gladiator and WOG: The Curse of the WereRabbit
The Greatest Showman took £753,420 down 29% in its 13^th weekend #5 behind Peter Rabbit, Pacific Rim: Uprising, Black Panther and Tomb Raider taking £40.11m 83.1% of £48.3m total; if Bohemian Rhapsody holds similarly could take £60m+ would be the 17^th biggest film in the UK and 20^th Century Fox’s third biggest film in the UK after Avatar and Titanic.

20^th Century Fox’s success with Bohemian Rhapsody comes almost a year after The Greatest Showman which was similar to Titanic following the success of The Full Monty in 1997
What made Bohemian Rhapsody a massive success worldwide was it played to the same audience as The Greatest Showman and more. “We’re four misfits who don’t below together, playing for other misfits and the outcasts right in the back of the room, who are pretty sure they don’t belong either… we belong to them.”
Received five Oscar nominations including Best Film and Best Actor Rami Malek; also received seven BAFTA nominations including Best British Film and Best Actor. After receiving mixed reviews few would have expected Bohemian Rhapsody would have been nominated for Best Film a few months ago.

Beautiful Boy – Studiocanal
£361,382 (including £109,069 previews) from 124 screens
The poster for Beautiful Boy surprisingly highlighted Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet as Academy nominees but failed to include Amy Ryan was also a Best Actress nominee and Maura Tierney was an Emmy nominee; Steve Carell starred in The Office with Amy Ryan and Maura Tierney.
UK Box Office Top 10

US Box office

• Glass – Universal Pictures

Opened with $42.8m; received poor reviews 35% Rotten Tomatoes score (Split received 76% Rotten Tomatoes score) and B CinemaScore (Unbreakable, The Last Airbender and The Village all received C’s, The Happening received a D and The Sixth Sense an A-).
In December early tracking was predicting an opening between $70m-$75m over Martin Luther King weekend would be the second biggest opening over the holiday weekend after Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper opening with $107m in 2015 and above 2014’s Ride Along opening with $48m.
Instead opens with 30% less due to poor reviews and will likely be very front-loaded
Night Shyamalan biggest opening in the US was 2002’s Signs $60.11m taking $227.96m and 2004’s The Village with $50.74m taking $114.19m; but of course ticket inflation since Signs was released is over 60% so inflation inflated opening would be closer to $100m and total of $370m.
2018 was the 20th anniversary of M. Night Shyamalan biggest film to date The Sixth Sense opened with $26.68m in August 1999 taking $293.5m and $672.8m worldwide would be $1.3bn inflation inflated.
2000’s Unbreakable opened with $30.33m taking $95.01m and 2017’s Split opened with $40.01m taking $138.29m and $250.11m worldwide
2017’s Split opened with $40,010,975 taking $138,291,365 and $278.45m worldwide
Its only when you compare inflation inflated totals that a $70m opening isn’t nearly as impressive as it sounds as it highlights how films openings have changed to become much more front-loaded in only a short time.
Had the third biggest MLK opener behind American Sniper $107.2m and Ride Along $48.6m.
Glass had the third biggest opening for Blumhouse productions after Halloween $76.2m and Paranormal Activity 3 $52.5m.
What was surprising was rival studios didn’t open anything against Glass but probably feared the Christmas films would hold stronger which was why the only alternative Dragon Ball Super: Broly performed much better than anyone expected.
Internationally took $48.5m from 55 territories and $89.1m total (was expected to open with $100m+)

• The Upside – STX International

Down 26.3% in its second weekend with $15.01m and $43.3m held surprisingly strongly after poor reviews but showed that Glass opening wasn’t down to reviews.
The English-language remake of the French 2011 film The Intouchables was first announced in July 2011 with many actors rumoured to star including Chris Rock, Idris Elba, Colin Firth and Jessica Chastain and attached to many directors including Paul Feig and Simon Curtis, attached to direct.
Kevin Hart was becoming a global star after starring in Ride Along, Central Intelligence, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and Night School and in December was signed to be the host for next year’s Oscar but was forced to quit after backlash to homophobic tweets he made many years earlier, will this affect his acting career, Sony will surely be looking to see if it does as he is due to star i Jumanji sequel set for released in December 2019.
Opened with $1.3m from 17 territories

• Dragon Ball Super: Broly – Funimation

Opened with $9.79m and $20.21m total
Opened much stronger than expected probably due in part to Glass not matching expectations and a lack of competition.
Took $5.3 million from 18 territories and $88.33m total internationally

• Aquaman – Warner Bros

Down 41.4% in its fifth weekend taking $10.17m and $304.16m; #74 biggest film in the US between Return of the Jedi and Independence Day
Aquaman has overtaken overtake Man of Steel ($291.04m) and could overtake both Suicide Squad ($325.1m) and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ($330.36m) with limited competition until The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part in two weeks.
5^th weekends;
Suicide Squad took $9.91m down 19.1% and $297.32m of $325.1m
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice took $5.5m down 39.1% and $319.48m of $330.1m
Man of Steel took $4.71m down 58.7% and $280.88m of $291.04m
Wonder Woman took $15.7m down 36.9% and $346.23m of $412.56m
Justice League took $4.3m down 55.4% and $219.59m of $229.02m
Aquaman is Warner Bros 10^th biggest film in the US between Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Aquaman is the ninth comic-book to take over $1bn globally have been six Marvel (Avengers: Infinity War, Marvel’s The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Black Panther, Iron Man 3, Captain America: Civil War) and three DC (The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises and Aquaman).
Warner Bros now have five films that have taken over $1bn worldwide Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows – Part 2, The Dark Knight Rises, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Aquaman and The Dark Knight.
The six DC Extended Universe films have taken $1.89bn in the US and $4.83bn worldwide
Took $14.3m internationally from 79 territories $759.1m total and $1.068bn worldwide; #27 biggest film worldwide between Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story; top territories China $289.7m; Korea: $39.0m; Brazil: $33.9m; Mexico: $29.7m; UK: $27.3m; Australia: $26.2m; France: $25.7m; Germany: $22.3m.
Rumours started again last week about The Batman expected to start shooting later this year with a release in either 2021/2022. Matt reeves replace Ben Affleck as director in February 2017 and there have been rumours ever since of Ben Affleck being replaced as Batman.
After releasing only one DC Extended Universe films last year Warner Bros are set to release two this year Shazam! In April (new trailer released this week) and The Joker in October with at least two films released in 2020, Wonder Woman 1984 and The Untitled Birds of Prey Project

• A Dog’s Way Home – Sony Pictures

Down 36.1% in its second weekend taking $7.18m and $21.35m
Plot is similar to 1963’s The Incredible Journey which as remade in 1993 Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey opened with $8.11m taking $41.82m and its sequel 1996’s Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco opened with $8.6m taking $32.77m.
Family dog films are often successful at the box office most recently 2017’s A Dog’s Purpose opened with $18.22m taking $64.5m the sequel A Dog’s Journey opens in May and will likely get confused with A Dog’s Way Home as both films are based on books by the same author.
Took $2.8m from 8 territories and $5.1m total

• Mary Poppins Returns – Disney

Down 31.9% in its fifth weekend taking $5.21m and $158.7m
Has become the fifth biggest musical at the US box office overtaking 2016’s La La Land $151.1m and 2012’s Les Miserables $148.8m; the difference between those two films and Mary Poppins Returns is they recie4ved major Oscar nominations. While Mary Poppins Returns will overtake Chicago and The Greatest Showman it won’t beat 1978’s Grease $189.96m ($680m today) adjusted for inflation Mary Poppins would of taken $690m today being the 26^th biggest film in the US this is the reason why Mary Poppins Returns is seen as a disappointment as it had huge shoes to fill and was never likely to fill therm.
Box office experts were predicting Mary Poppins Returns would have similar legs as The Greatest Showman, but it was never going to have similar legs as The Greatest Showman as it was a memberberries sequel.
Mary Poppins Returns took 102% more than The Greatest Showman in week 2 but in week 4 that is dropped down to 56.8%
The Greatest Showman took $10.64m in its fifth weekend (42.1% more) and $113.12 56.7% of $174.34m
Took $6m from 44 territories and $147.3m total and $306m globally; #441 biggest film between Annabelle: Creation and Wonder; top territories UK $51.7m; Italy $14.6m; France $11.0m, Australia $10.7m; Germany $9.9m;
Mary Poppins Returns will likely take about $350m worldwide about $50m less than Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again ($394.7m) and almost $100m less than The Greatest Showman how can kit possibly be seen as a success? There were rumours Disney were developing a third film but its unlikely to happen if it can’t take $500m+ worldwide? The box office Bohemian Rhapsody has generated must have been what many expected from Mary Poppins Returns given that the original would of taken more than Black Panther inflation inflated.

• Bumblebee – Paramount Pictures

Down 34.1% in its fifth weekend taking $4.75m and $116.03m
Bumblebee was the best reviewed Transformers film but the Iron Giant/Real Steel reimagination feels like a low budget Transformers film without the soft porn shots of Megan Fox, with the Transformers
20 years ago Iron Giant took $23.15m in the US and 31.3m worldwide despite receiving critical acclaim and has since been voted as one of the best ever animated films and one of the best ever superhero films. In 2011 Real Steel took $85.46m in the US and $299.26m worldwide received mixed reviews due to the formulaic plot but it was a robot film with a human element
Last week became the leggiest Transformers film after being the best reviewed film of the series despite this might be the lowest grossing. After five weeks Bumblebee has taken less than all of the other films of the series being closest to Transformers: The Last Knight which took $2.84m and $124.9m in its fourth weekend dropping a similar 55%.
5^th weekend
2007’s Transformers $6.02m and $296.37m total $319.24m
2009’s Transformers: Age of Extinction $8.12m and $379.21m total $402.11m
2011’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon $6.08m and $338.1m total $352.39m
2014’s Transformers: Age of Extinction $4.7m and $236.45m total $245.43m
2017’s Transformers: The Last Knight $1.16m and $127.6m total $130.16m
Globally China’s box office will depend on if Bumblebee overtakes the box office of Transformers: The Last Knight $605.4m.
The seven Transformers films have taken $1.57bn In the US and $4.79bn worldwide.
Took $20.9m from 64 territories and $256.3m and $296.4m and $412.3m globally (including $137.7m from China); #269 between Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian and Batman; lowest grossing worldwide Transformers: The Last Knight #146
Rumours started last week about a Bumblebee sequel as it looks like tis is the new approach Paramount Pictures are going with the franchise despite the film being the lowest performing of the series.

• On the Basis of Sex- Focus Features

Down 36.4% in its fourth weekend taking $3.86m and $16.77m
Expanding after two weeks on limited release; the Ruth Bader Ginsburg biopic reviewed mixed reviews was originally seen as a possible award contender but will likely be overshadowed by the Ruth Bader Ginsburg documentary RBG at the Oscars taking $13.01m
Ruth Bader Ginsburg will appear as herself in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part opening in two weeks.

• Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse – Sony Pictures

Down 18.4% in its sixth weekend taking $7.57m and $158.57m
Big Hero 6 dropped 24.7% in its sixth weekend taking $6.05m and $185.23m of $222.52m and $435.2m internationally and $657.81m worldwide #123 biggest between Justice League and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
Despite rave reviews and positive buzz as Bumblebee will likely be the lowest grossing of the Spider-Man film series in the US and definitely globally; lowest grossing Spider-Man film is 2014’s The Amazing Spider-Man 2 which took $20.85m in the US and $709.m worldwide
The seven Spider-Man films have taken $2.07bn in the US and $5.16bn globally;
Took $4.7m from 65 territories and $164.6m total ($49.5m from China) and $322.9m worldwide #407 biggest between The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water and Schindler’s List.

• If Beale Street Could Talk – Annapurna Pictures

Dropped 30.7% in its sixth weekend taking $1.66m and $10.48m
Barry Jenkin’s previous film 2016’s Moonlight in its sixth weekend taking $1.21m and $6.64m went on to take $27,854,932 winning Best Picture at Oscars in 2017.
Received critical acclaim ever since it premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September receiving 94% Rotten Tomatoes score

• Green Book – Universal Pictures

Up 0.8% in its tenth weekend taking $2.16m adding 170 screens and $41.87m
Was the surprise winner at the Golden Globes last weekend winning three Golden Globe Awards on Sunday Best Picture Musical or Comedy, Best Screenplay and Best Actor Viggo Mortensen.
Critical reaction has been more mixed, but audience reaction has been much more positive.

• The Favourite – Fox Searchlight

Took $815,322 down 26.4% in its ninth weekend and $22.8m.
After receiving 10 Oscar nominations The Favourite will add to its 517 screens this weekend and likely to be the Oscar nominee that will see it have the biggest box office bounce.
As with Darkest Hour and I, Tonya last year The Favourite will likely get nominated for multiple Oscars this week and likely only win Best Actress and Supporting Actress.
Darkest Hour took $4.46m down 26.1% dropped 40 screens and $35.67m in its 9th weekend from 1693 screens
The Shape of Water took $2.83m down 9.7% dropping 81 screens and $30.19m in its 8th weekend from 853 screens
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri took $1.91m down 23.9% dropping 68 screens and $31.99m in its 11th weekend from 954 screens
I, Tonya took $2.86m down 14.9% adding and 288 screens and $14.5m in its 799 screens in its 7th weekend from 512 screens
Lady Bird took $1.18m down 32.5% adding 23 screens and $39.05m in its 12th weekend from 675 screens
Took $3.2m from 11 territories and $19.7m total

• Mary Queen of Scots – Focus Features

Losing 424 screens in its seventh weekend dropping 57.5% taking $362,575 and $16.03m total
After failing to win a Golden Globe awards, only receiving three BAFTA nominations and receiving no Oscar nominations its unlikely Focus Features will bother to expand its release any further having dropped screens over the last three weeks.
Was always a surprise Mary Queen of Scots opened so close to The Favourite as being the second historical drama it was always going to suffer as it didn’t have either the critical acclaim or the buzz The Favourite had ahead of its release.
Mary Queen of Scots had originally been set to be released in November, but its releasing plans were overshadowed by Green Book after receiving positive reviews at the Toronto Film Festival in September becoming Universal’s big award contender after First Man underperformed despite polarised critical reaction (received 5 Oscar nominations and First Man 4 nominations).
The two previous parts of the Elizabeth Extended Universe 1998’s Elizabeth were nominated for seven Oscars winning only Best Makeup had much better success with BAFTAs winning five. 2007’s Elizabeth: The Golden Age was nominated for two Oscars winning Costume Design and nominated for four BAFTAs not winning any, so the likelihood of Mary Queen of Scots even being nominated was unlikely making its release so close to The Favourite make little sense.
2007’s Elizabeth: The Golden Age took $16.38m and $74.23m worldwide
1998’s Elisabeth took $30.1m and $82.15 worldwide
Took $6.4m from 13 territories and $22.5m total
Mary Queen of Scots received 60% Rotten Tomatoes score Vs 94% The Favourite.

• Stan & Ollie – Sony Classics

Up 359.6% in its fourth weekend (adding 71 screens) $337,744 and $735,665
The Artist took $287,367 in its fourth weekend from 17 screens and $1,327,520 went on to take $44,671,682; was a slow platform release by the Weinstein Company (repeated successfully several years later with Lion) taking 11 weeks to expand to 1,000 screens building on momentum from Golden Globe awards, BAFTA awards and Oscars.
In 1993 Chaplin took $2,069,280 in its a fourth weekend (second week wide) and $6,678,621 of $9,493,259
Took $2.4m from 2 territories and $8.14m total

• Bohemian Rhapsody – 20^th Century Fox

Took $2.3m in its twelfth weekend down 28.2% taking $202.03m; 13^th biggest film of 2018 between A Star is Born (will shortly overtake) and Ralph Breaks the Internet; second biggest 20^th Century Fox film of 2018 and their 23^rd biggest film ever between Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.
Weekend box office $11.3m from 40 territories $596m total (become 20th Century Fox’s fifth biggest film internationally after Avatar $2,035bn; Titanic $1,535bn; Ice Age: Continental Drift $722m; Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs $692m) taking $798m total globally; #76 biggest film between Shrek the Third and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; has now become the 16^th biggest original film ever globally.
Bohemian Rhapsody is 20^th Century Fox’s 8^th biggest film ever globally after Avatar, Titanic, Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Ice Age: Continental Drift, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith and Independence Day; biggest territories Japan $88.6m; South Korea $75.9m; UK $66.2m; Australia $35m; France $36.1m; Italy $30.4m; Germany $29.8m; Spain $28.7m.
Bohemian Rhapsody had originally been set for Christmas Day release opening days after Mary Poppins Returns but 20^th Century Fox brought its release forward 6 weeks in March 20128 to open 2^nd November.
With its Oscar nominations could see Bohemian Rhapsody add another $30m+ worldwide will see it overtaking Independence Day and getting close to the worldwide box office of Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
UK Box Office Predictions

After receiving mixed reviews and poor word of mouth Glass is likely to drop heavier than Split (21%) but more like The Village 46%, or The Happening 49% but that will still be enough for it to hold #1 for a second weekend,
Mixed reviews for Mary Queen of Scots will also see it drop more than recent award contenders, while Stan and Ollie should hold well due to strong word of mouth. The Favourite could see a boost after Oscar nominations and could Bohemian Rhapsody in its 14^th week on release.
Despite Vice nominated for 8 Oscars compared to The Big Short nominated for 5 in 2015 the film isn’t as accessible to international audiences (similar themed W opened #6 in 2008 with £367,512)
With the current lack of children’s films on release (until next week with How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World) A Dog’s Way Home could find a limited audience as dog films with the exception of Patrick are popular at the box office; 2017’s A Dog’s Purpose opened with £1,300,097 taking £2,840,210 (sequel is released later this year A Dog’s Way Home is based on a book by the same author).
After Burn the Stage: The Movie opened with £644,308 in November BTS are back with Love Yourself In Seoul BTS World Tour opening in many more screens and having many more screenings on Saturday.
Opening almost 30 years to the month of Working Girl Jennifer Lopez stars in Second Act which might find limited audience here as will Clint Eastwood’s The Mule in his first acting role since 2012’s Trouble with the Curve (opened with £41,391) and first starring role in a film directed by him since 2008’s Gran Torino (£332,877 62 screens £1,351,278 wide taking £8,143,251); The Mule is likely to open somewhere in the middle. The Mule has done suprsingly well in the US taking almost $100m
Opening in UK Next Week

• How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World – Universal Pictures

The third and final part of the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy; featuring voices of Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Kit Harington, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Justin Rupple, Kristen Wiig and F. Murray Abraham and written and directed by Dean DeBlois,
It is the first DreamWorks Animation film to be distributed by Universal Pictures after they acquired the animated studio in 2016; 20^th Century Fox released Dreamworks Animation films from 2013 to 2017; were previously released by Paramount Pictures between 2006 and 2012 and before released by Dreamworks from 1998 to 2005 (Antz the first released in October 1998)
Opened in Australia and New Zealand to coincide with Australia’s summer holidays opening in the UK February 1st ahead of The Lego Movie Part 2: The Second Part for half-term on February 1st and the US February 22nd.
How to Train Your Dragon opened April 2010 with £4,846,532 (including £2,121,321 previews) taking £17,168,517
How to Train Your Dragon 2 opened July 2014 with £7,779,040 (including £4,860,929 previews) taking £24,258,735
The first two films openings were boosted by previews, but the third film doesn’t have any previews; while at the moment due to the same dispute that has seen Mary Queen of Scots not screen at Vue Cinemas advance booking hasn’t started for the third film.
The two How to Train Your Dragon films have taken $1.12bn worldwide and $394.58m in the US; all three films have been released by different studios, first by Paramount Pictures in 2010 and the sequel in 2014 by 20th Century Fox.
Took $10.8m from 13 territories and $29m total

• Escape Room – Sony Pictures

Thriller starring Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll, Taylor Russell, Tyler Labine, Jay Ellis, and Nik Dodan and directed by Adam Robitel; was originally called The Maze.
Opened in the US on January 4^th with $18.23m taking $33m; received mixed reviews (53% Rotten Tomatoes score); has previews on Saturday January 26^th.

• Can You Ever Forgive Me – 20^th Century Fox

Biographical comedy-drama starring starring Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Jane Curtin, Anna Deavere Smith, Stephen Spinella, and Ben Falcone and directed by Marielle Heller; based on Lee Israel’s 2008 memoir of the same name
Had world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival receiving critical acclaim (98% Rotten Tomatoes) with praise for McCarthy’s and Grant’s performances.
Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant both received surprising Oscar nominations despite the film failing to find an audience in the U, as with so many films had a decent platform release but then expanded too quickly and never expanded beyond 555 screens. The Oscar nominations might generate some interest.

• Green Book – eOne

Comedy-drama starring Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen and directed by Peter Farrelly; about tour of the Deep South in the 1960s by Jamaican-American classical pianist Don Shirley
Had world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2018 winning the People’s Choice Award and received positive reviews from critics; 81% Rotten Tomatoes. Won the National Board of Review award of best film of 2018 and Best Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, Best Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor Mahershala Ali Golde3n Globes.
Peter Farrelly is best known for directing gross-out comedies with his brother including Dumb and Dumber, There’s Something About Mary and Shallow Hal.
Was the surprise film at last years London Film Festival
Drew some criticism for its perceived historical inaccuracies
Opening in the US

• Miss Bala – Sony Pictures

Action thriller film starring Gina Rodriguez, Ismael Cruz Córdova and Anthony Mackie and directed by Catherine Hardwicke; based on the 2011 film of the same name, directed by Gerardo Naranjo.