Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: August 23-25 2019
1. Angel Has Fallen £2,122,408 (new release)
2. Once upon a Time in Hollywood £2,109,591 (£12,736,798, 2 weeks)
3. The Lion King £1,093,591 (£69,064,201, 6 weeks)
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4. Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw £634,421 (£17,849,035, 4 weeks)
5. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark £611,218 (new release)
6. Dora and the Lost City of Gold £488,100 (£2,672,475, 2 weeks)
7. Crawl £458,796 (new release)
8. Toy Story 4 £448,391 (£62,536,622, 10 weeks)
9. Good Boys £346,495 (£1,872,605, 2 weeks)
10. Secret Cinema: Casino Royale £323,291 (£6,095,745, 12 weeks)
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The record-breaking heat of the Bank Holiday weekend meant that cinema audiences melted away. Angel Has Fallen topped the chart by a whisker, but only because two days of previews were rolled up into that ‘weekend’ figure, in accordance with peculiar cinema industry accounting tradition. It’s still way behind the first two films in the unlovely Gerard Butler action franchise, but could yet make up lost ground if the weather turns shitty again. In the battle of the horror flicks, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark was the comfortable winner, leaving Crawl to snap at its ankles. Unsurprisingly, the big arthouse hit of the moment is Pedro Almodovar’s Pain and Glory, which became the Spanish director’s second-biggest UK box office opener behind 2006’s Oscar nominated Volver.
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