Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: December 14-16 2018
1. Aquaman £5,230,285 (new release)
2. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse £2,279,995 (new release)
3. The Grinch £1,747,936 (£21,686,463, 6 weeks)
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4. Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 £1,402,006 (£9,324,458, 3 weeks)
5. Mortal Engines £1,269,441 (new release)
6. Creed II £749,740 (£7,4145,211, 3 weeks)
7. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald £700,808 (£30,541,674, 5 weeks)
8. Bohemian Rhapsody £537,344 (£45,147,461, 8 weeks)
9. Free Solo £387,402 (new release)
10. Metropolitan Opera Live: La Traviata £274,847 (new release)
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Fishy DC superhero Aquaman trounced Sony’s multiple spider-persons during the weekend comicbook smackdown at the box office, their commercial fortunes enjoying an inverse relationship to critical reception. Seasonal hit The Grinch held steady, but last week’s chart-topper Ralph Breaks the Internet: Wreck-It Ralph 2 was knocked all the way down to fourth place. The real story, however, is one of underperformance. Aquaman might have topped the chart, but its opening weekend takings were among the lowest of any DC Universe film. A whopping £1m of those Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse takings were from preview screenings, which makes its ‘opening weekend’ seem a tad less impressive. Despite the Peter Jackson connection, Mortal Engines just scraped into the top five. Further down the chart, Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald has breached the £30m barrier, which is impressive enough, but it stands no chance of catching the £54.7m of the first film. Still, on a limited release, palm-moistening free climbing doc Free Solo has succeeded in finding an appreciative audience.
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