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| Kingsman: The Golden Circle spies an opportunity at the UK box office – and grabs It | Kingsman: The Golden Circle spies an opportunity at the UK box office – and grabs It |
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| The winner: Kingsman: The Golden Circle | The winner: Kingsman: The Golden Circle |
| The reviews may have been mixed, but producer-director-writer Matthew Vaughn once again demonstrates his savvy populist instinct. The darkly comic spy adventure opens in the UK with £6.2m, with Wednesday and Thursday previews taking that tally to a five-day £8.53m. This compares with a £3.56m debut for 2015’s Kingsman: The Secret Service, or £4.24m including previews. | The reviews may have been mixed, but producer-director-writer Matthew Vaughn once again demonstrates his savvy populist instinct. The darkly comic spy adventure opens in the UK with £6.2m, with Wednesday and Thursday previews taking that tally to a five-day £8.53m. This compares with a £3.56m debut for 2015’s Kingsman: The Secret Service, or £4.24m including previews. |
| Ignoring previews, The Golden Circle has opened bigger than a string of 2017’s aspiring summer blockbusters: Alien: Covenant, Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge, Wonder Woman, The Mummy, Transformers: The Last Knight and War for the Planet of the Apes. It also opened a whole lot better than the latest from Vaughn’s former film-making partner Guy Ritchie, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (£2.5m including previews). | Ignoring previews, The Golden Circle has opened bigger than a string of 2017’s aspiring summer blockbusters: Alien: Covenant, Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge, Wonder Woman, The Mummy, Transformers: The Last Knight and War for the Planet of the Apes. It also opened a whole lot better than the latest from Vaughn’s former film-making partner Guy Ritchie, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (£2.5m including previews). |
| Vaughn can now fairly claim to have the second-biggest spy franchise in the marketplace after James Bond – in the UK, at any rate. The last Mission: Impossible movie, Rogue Nation, began here in July 2015 with £5.35m including just over £1m in previews. | Vaughn can now fairly claim to have the second-biggest spy franchise in the marketplace after James Bond – in the UK, at any rate. The last Mission: Impossible movie, Rogue Nation, began here in July 2015 with £5.35m including just over £1m in previews. |
| The runner-up: It | The runner-up: It |
| Dropping 53% in its third frame, the Stephen King adaptation It added another £2.85m at the weekend, taking the 17-day tally to £26.5m. That’s the highest ever gross for a horror film in the UK, unless you – perversely – count the supernatural Twilight franchise. It is the 11th-biggest hit of 2017 in the UK, behind Beauty and the Beast, Dunkirk, Despicable Me 3, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, Spider-Man: Homecoming, La La Land, Fast & Furious 8, Sing, The Boss Baby and The Lego Batman Movie. It should overtake at least half of those titles by the end of its run. The film covers events in the first half of King’s book and a sequel, covering events occurring 27 years later, has been announced for September 2019. | Dropping 53% in its third frame, the Stephen King adaptation It added another £2.85m at the weekend, taking the 17-day tally to £26.5m. That’s the highest ever gross for a horror film in the UK, unless you – perversely – count the supernatural Twilight franchise. It is the 11th-biggest hit of 2017 in the UK, behind Beauty and the Beast, Dunkirk, Despicable Me 3, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, Spider-Man: Homecoming, La La Land, Fast & Furious 8, Sing, The Boss Baby and The Lego Batman Movie. It should overtake at least half of those titles by the end of its run. The film covers events in the first half of King’s book and a sequel, covering events occurring 27 years later, has been announced for September 2019. |
| The indie flop: Borg vs McEnroe | The indie flop: Borg vs McEnroe |
| Arthouse distributor Curzon made a rare foray into multiplex territory with sports drama Borg vs McEnroe, which contrasts the two famous tennis stars as they clash at the 1980 Wimbledon men’s final. But the rollout into 145 cinemas may have been too ambitious, given an opening weekend gross of just £102,000, including negligible previews. Site average is a poor £691. At the time, more than 17 million people viewed the match on BBC TV, and similar numbers have watched Andy Murray’s Wimbledon finals in recent years, but those sports fans are not necessarily cinemagoers. Fox will be looking at Curzon’s release campaign to avoid any pitfalls for its tonally very different tennis true tale Battle of the Sexes, starring Emma Stone and Steve Carell, out in November. | Arthouse distributor Curzon made a rare foray into multiplex territory with sports drama Borg vs McEnroe, which contrasts the two famous tennis stars as they clash at the 1980 Wimbledon men’s final. But the rollout into 145 cinemas may have been too ambitious, given an opening weekend gross of just £102,000, including negligible previews. Site average is a poor £691. At the time, more than 17 million people viewed the match on BBC TV, and similar numbers have watched Andy Murray’s Wimbledon finals in recent years, but those sports fans are not necessarily cinemagoers. Fox will be looking at Curzon’s release campaign to avoid any pitfalls for its tonally very different tennis true tale Battle of the Sexes, starring Emma Stone and Steve Carell, out in November. |
| The arthouse hit: In Between | The arthouse hit: In Between |
| Cinema bookers have been pleasantly surprised by the success of In Between, a drama about three Palestinian women sharing an apartment in Tel Aviv. Plucky indie distributor Peccadillo released the film into seven cinemas at the weekend, garnering coverage from relatively mainstream outlets including Newsnight and Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. Despite being stuck with split showtimes (sharing the screen with at least one other title) at all those sites, the film managed a £2,071 average, not counting previews. As a result, In Between expands to 27 cinemas for its second weekend. | Cinema bookers have been pleasantly surprised by the success of In Between, a drama about three Palestinian women sharing an apartment in Tel Aviv. Plucky indie distributor Peccadillo released the film into seven cinemas at the weekend, garnering coverage from relatively mainstream outlets including Newsnight and Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour. Despite being stuck with split showtimes (sharing the screen with at least one other title) at all those sites, the film managed a £2,071 average, not counting previews. As a result, In Between expands to 27 cinemas for its second weekend. |
| Meanwhile, the film achieving the highest screen average this week was Lawrence of Arabia, which grossed more than £9,000 from its 70mm presentation at London’s BFI Southbank. (Kingsman: The Golden Circle has a higher per-cinema average, but that dilutes down when you count the actual screens it’s playing on.) | Meanwhile, the film achieving the highest screen average this week was Lawrence of Arabia, which grossed more than £9,000 from its 70mm presentation at London’s BFI Southbank. (Kingsman: The Golden Circle has a higher per-cinema average, but that dilutes down when you count the actual screens it’s playing on.) |
| The market | The market |
| Thanks to the arrival of the new Kingsman film, the market rises by 23% from the previous frame, and is also 20% up on the equivalent weekend from 2017, when The Magnificent Seven failed to dislodge Bridget Jones’s Baby from the top spot. This coming weekend, three wide releases vie for audiences: Goodbye Christopher Robin, Reese Witherspoon comedy Home Again and the Flatliners remake. Cinema bookers will have higher hopes pinned on Blade Runner 2049, following a week later. | Thanks to the arrival of the new Kingsman film, the market rises by 23% from the previous frame, and is also 20% up on the equivalent weekend from 2017, when The Magnificent Seven failed to dislodge Bridget Jones’s Baby from the top spot. This coming weekend, three wide releases vie for audiences: Goodbye Christopher Robin, Reese Witherspoon comedy Home Again and the Flatliners remake. Cinema bookers will have higher hopes pinned on Blade Runner 2049, following a week later. |
| Top 10 films September 22-24 | Top 10 films September 22-24 |
| 1. Kingsman: The Golden Circle, £8,525,664 from 602 sites (new)2. It, £2,852,965 from 578 sites. Total: £26,451,709 (3 weeks)3. Victoria and Abdul, £1,239,085 from 615 sites. Total: £4,831,777 (2 weeks)4. Mother!, £364,301 from 453 sites. Total: £1,668,307 (2 weeks)5. The Emoji Movie, £359,793 from 509 sites. Total: £14,043,072 (8 weeks)6. The Jungle Bunch, £288,417 from 521 sites. Total: £732,568 (2 weeks)7. American Assassin, £262,647 from 415 sites. Total: £1,371,723 (2 weeks)8. Despicable Me 3, £195,960 from 410 sites. Total: £46,717,650 (13 weeks)9. Dunkirk, £185,321 from 290 sites. Total: £56,086,005 (10 weeks)10. American Made, £151,960 from 248 sites. Total: £5,345,061 (5 weeks) | 1. Kingsman: The Golden Circle, £8,525,664 from 602 sites (new)2. It, £2,852,965 from 578 sites. Total: £26,451,709 (3 weeks)3. Victoria and Abdul, £1,239,085 from 615 sites. Total: £4,831,777 (2 weeks)4. Mother!, £364,301 from 453 sites. Total: £1,668,307 (2 weeks)5. The Emoji Movie, £359,793 from 509 sites. Total: £14,043,072 (8 weeks)6. The Jungle Bunch, £288,417 from 521 sites. Total: £732,568 (2 weeks)7. American Assassin, £262,647 from 415 sites. Total: £1,371,723 (2 weeks)8. Despicable Me 3, £195,960 from 410 sites. Total: £46,717,650 (13 weeks)9. Dunkirk, £185,321 from 290 sites. Total: £56,086,005 (10 weeks)10. American Made, £151,960 from 248 sites. Total: £5,345,061 (5 weeks) |
| Other openers | Other openers |
| Maze, £123,985 from 65 sites (Ireland and Northern Ireland only)Borg vs McEnroe, £101,918 (including £1,788 previews) from 145 sitesNikka Zaildar 2, £64,701 from 17 sitesIn Between, £17,271 (including £2,776 previews) from 7 sitesBhoomi, £15,329 from 9 sitesVelipadinte Pusthakam, £14,856 from 44 sitesLawrence of Arabia, £9,359 from 1 siteOn Body and Soul, £9,035 from 10 sitesAy Lav Yu Tuu, £7,573 from 3 sitesOur Last Tango, £1,085 from 2 sitesAlmost Heaven, £739 from 1 site | Maze, £123,985 from 65 sites (Ireland and Northern Ireland only)Borg vs McEnroe, £101,918 (including £1,788 previews) from 145 sitesNikka Zaildar 2, £64,701 from 17 sitesIn Between, £17,271 (including £2,776 previews) from 7 sitesBhoomi, £15,329 from 9 sitesVelipadinte Pusthakam, £14,856 from 44 sitesLawrence of Arabia, £9,359 from 1 siteOn Body and Soul, £9,035 from 10 sitesAy Lav Yu Tuu, £7,573 from 3 sitesOur Last Tango, £1,085 from 2 sitesAlmost Heaven, £739 from 1 site |
| •Thanks to comScore. All figures relate to takings in UK and Ireland cinemas. | •Thanks to comScore. All figures relate to takings in UK and Ireland cinemas. |
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