Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: April 21-23, 2017
1. Fast & Furious 8 £3,593,733 (£23,004,524, 2 weeks)
2. The Boss Baby £2,062,992 (£22,264,960, 3 weeks)
3. Beauty and the Beast £1,312,335 (£66,772,576, 6 weeks)
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4. Their Finest £850,328 (new release)
5. Smurfs: The Lost Village £327,576 (£4,531,108, 4 weeks)
6. Met Opera Live: Eugene Onegin £274,598 (new release)
7. Unforgettable £270,610 (new release)
8. Going in Style £263,856 (£2,450,891, 3 weeks)
9. Get Out £263,598 (£9,542,302, 6 weeks)
10. Peppa Pig: My First Cinema Experience £209,050 (£3,017,361, 3 weeks)
Chart copyright Rentrak
Mr. Diesel and his polluting petrolhead pals continue to reign supreme but Fast & Furious 8 suffered a whopping 58% drop during its second week of congesting multiplexes, which rather suggests that the film’s entire audience sped to cinemas for the opening weekend. So after all that hype, it looks as though the eighth instalment will trail behind the seventh one when the bean-counters have finished totting up its loot. That’s not sufficient to prevent Fast & Furious 9, mind. The real story this week can be found in third place, where Disney’s Beauty and the Beast‘s £66.7m haul not only means that it currently ranks at number eight in the UK all-time top ten but has also overtaken Mamma Mia! to become the UK’s most popular musical. New releases struggled, but Their Finest performed decently enough to claim fourth place. Outside the chart, The Handmaiden is poised to become the first non-Bollywood foreign language release since Julieta to take more than £1m. Warren Beatty’s Rules Don’t Apply, meanwhile, suffered the same ignominious fate as it did in the US, with total UK earnings of £47,000. That’s just £193 per cinema in which it was showing. Ouch!
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