Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: August 30-September 1
1. Once upon a Time in Hollywood £1,841,873 (£16,395,349, 3 weeks)
2. The Lion King £1,226,965 (£71,715,237, 7 weeks)
3. Angel Has Fallen £1,187,094 (£4,536,490, 2 weeks)
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4. Dora and the Lost City of Gold £622,872 (£4,056,784, 3 weeks)
5. Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw £610,479 (£19,078,869, 5 weeks)
6. Toy Story 4 £577,501 (£63,815,055, 11 weeks)
7. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark £484,600 (£1,649,543, 2 weeks)
8. Secret Cinema: Casino Royale £340,919 (£6,598,593, 13 weeks)
9. Good Boys £307,668 (£2,537,827, 3 weeks)
10. The Informer £301,424 (new release)
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Let’s fly the Bristol flag first. Locally produced, highly acclaimed drama Bait‘s opening weekend total of just under £50,000 isn’t going to terrify Disney, but this low-budget BFI-distributed indie is packing ’em in at the 23 cinemas where it’s playing. If you’ve not seen this one yet, the Watershed has just retained it for a further week. Go here for screening times.
At the top of the chart, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood reclaimed pole position from Angel Has Fallen, which tumbled to third place in its second weekend on release. That means Tarantino has beaten his own previous UK box office record, which was set by Django Unchained (£15.7m in 2013). Disney’s Lion King vaulted into the UK all-time top ten this week, displacing Avengers: Infinity War as it sailed past the £70m mark. If the synopsis of The Informer left you struggling to suppress a yawn. you were not alone. It barely scraped into the top ten as the highest charting new release. Performing even worse were the The Mustang and this week’s rehab drama A Million Little Pieces, the latter taking a miserable £25,000 nationwide.
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