Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: August 28-30 2020
1. Tenet £5,335,654 (new release)
2. Onward £185,028 (£6,657,744, 26 weeks)
3. 100% Wolf £140,050 (£828,469, 5 weeks)
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4. Unhinged £112,465 (£1,215,413, 5 weeks)
5. Pinocchio £94,821 (£556,701, 3 weeks)
6. Trolls World Tour £77,536 (£655,604, 21 weeks)
7. Hope Gap £72,769 (new release)
8. Bring the Soul: The Movie £39,085 (£680,529, 57 weeks)
9. Dreambuilders £24,755 (£321,609, 7 weeks)
10. Dirty Dancing 30th Anniversary £17,644 (£439,188, 186 weeks)
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That whooshing sound you can hear isn’t an expensive special effect but a huge collective sigh of relief from the cinema exhibition industry. Newspaper columnists with empty pages to fill had been quick to prognosticate The Death of Cinema (again) because, it was asserted, everyone had got used to staying in and streaming films. The return to cinemagoing had certainly been more of a trickle than a flood. But then Christopher Nolan’s Tenet showed up to prove that punters could easily be tempted back with a new movie they really want to see. That £5.3m opening weekend puts Tenet just behind Nolan’s broadly comparable Interstellar and Inception, which is particularly impressive given that some cinemas have yet to reopen (the Cineworld and Odeon in Bristol) while others have put in place strict social distancing measures that halve the number of people attending each screening. And there’s also good news for Disney, who controversially pulled Mulan from cinemas altogether. If those Bank Holiday weekend preview screenings of the House of Mouse’s first post-lockdown release, The New Mutants, had made the film eligible for inclusion in this week’s chart, it would have bagged second place with a promising £220,000.
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