Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: April 5-7 2019
1. Shazam! £4,067,068 (new release)
2. Dumbo £3,508,551 (£12,083,765, 2 weeks)
3. Pet Sematary £1,554,881 (new release)
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4. Captain Marvel £1,156,477 (£34,623,067, 5 weeks)
5. Peppa Pig: Festival of Fun £982,617 (new release)
6. Us £931,089 (£8,012,264, 3 weeks)
7. Missing Link £644,649 (new release)
8. Fisherman’s Friends £391,995 (£5,943,711, 4 weeks)
9. The Sisters Brothers £253,187 (new release)
10. What Men Want £138,001 (£2,785,973, 4 weeks)
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This week’s superhero movie, Shazam!, zapped its way to the top of the chart with a fairly modest £4m haul. That said, this is a fairly minor DC character. What’s more, the film opened ahead of the risible Aquaman, so distributors Warner Brothers won’t be too disappointed. Disney’s Dumbo continues to under-perform in second place, but still has the Easter holiday in which to mug children of their pocket money. Rival kidflicks poised to do well over the next couple of weeks include Laika’s enjoyable Missing Link and tot juggernaut Peppa Pig: Festival of Fun, which opened a tad behind the porker’s earlier My First Cinema Experience. Pet Sematary bagged third place with £1.5m but lags woefully behind in the Stephen King adaptation remake stakes. Lest we forget, It opened with a whopping £10m back in September 2017. Quietly doing very well for itself further down the chart is Fisherman’s Friends. Most of those Britcoms touted as “the new Full Monty” sink without trace, but these crooning sealife slaughterers from Brexitland have succeeded in capturing the public imagination. The film has leapfroged Fighting With My Family and is heading for the £6m mark. Notably, it has taken more than twice as much as its big-budget Hollywood rival What Men Want, which opened on the same day
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