Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: August 10-12 2018
1. The Meg £3,651,111 (new release)
2. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again £3,568,169 (£48,311,304, 4 weeks)
3. Incredibles 2 £2,354,530 (£45,007,302, 5 weeks)
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4. Ant-Man and the Wasp £2,282,343 (£10,493,740, 2 weeks)
5. Mission: Impossible – Fallout £2,042,327 (£17,438,142, 3 weeks)
6. Hotel Transylvania: A Monster Vacation £1,565,618 (£11,249,963, 3 weeks)
7. The Darkest Minds £388,325 (new release)
8. Teen Titans Go! To the Movies £246,390 (£1,013,117, 2 weeks)
9. Unfriended: Dark Web £223,110 (new release)
10. The First Purge £117,451 (£5,776,741, 6 weeks)
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The Meg managed to avoid Snakes on a Plane Syndrome (where everyone chortles at the concept but neglects to go and see the film), topping the chart at the weekend as it knocked Ant-Man and the Wasp right down into fourth place. But it only did so by a whisker, as Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again held steady. This has now overtaken The Greatest Showman to become the year’s top musical and could yet eclipse the first Mamma Mia! flick. Climbing a place to number three, The Incredibles 2 continues its suitably incredible box office run and now ranks as Pixar’s second-biggest UK box office hit, behind Toy Story 3. Further down the chart, the mediocre performance of The Darkest Minds continues the decline of dystopian YA novel adaptations, suggesting that audiences may have had their fill of such things. Similarly, the novelty of films unfolding entirely on laptop screens appears to be wearing off given that horror sequel Unfriended: Dark Web took a tiny fraction of the £1.35m opening weekend haul of the first film.
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