Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: August 17-19 2018
1. Christopher Robin £2,553,810 (new release)
2. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again £2,241,507 (£54,523,054, 5 weeks)
3. The Meg £2,113,490 (£8,561,777, 2 weeks)
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4. The Equalizer 2 £1,980,754 (new release)
5. The Festival £1,423,410 (new release)
6. Incredibles 2 £1,359,602 (£48,579,752, 6 weeks)
7. Mission: Impossible – Fallout £1,174,345 (£20,059,724, 4 weeks)
8. Ant-Man and the Wasp £1,169,524 (£13,597,140, 3 weeks)
9. Secret Cinema: Romeo and Juliet £999,338 (£2,682,527, 2 weeks)
10. Hotel Transylvania: A Monster Vacation £970,776 (£13,971,286, 4 weeks)
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Hey – we did our bit, but locally filmed comedy The Festival failed to live up to expectations at the box office, entering the chart in fifth place. Actually, that £1.4m isn’t too bad by normal standards, but the distributors were hoping for an Inbetweeners-sized weekend and those two films opened on £13.2m and 12.5m respectively. Perhaps its target audience of young festival-goers were all, er, at festivals. Rather more successful was Christopher Robin, which is yet another big hit for Disney and provides further proof – if any were needed – that you really can’t go wrong with talking CGI bears. In what is becoming something of a trend, this sent last week’s chart-topper, The Meg, into third place behind the seemingly unstoppable Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. The jukebox musical has now sailed through the £50m barrier and overtaken Black Panther to rank as the second-biggest box office hit of the year behind Avengers: Infinity War.
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