Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: February 8-10 2019
1. The Lego Movie 2 £4,016,730 (new release)
2. Alita: Battle Angel £3,198,180 (new release)
3. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World £2,750,729 (£9,055,241, 2 weeks)
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4. Green Book £1,070,922 (£3,624,275, 2 weeks)
5. Glass £560,579 (£9,646,964, 4 weeks)
6. Mary Queen of Scots £526,167 (£7,764,545, 4 weeks)
7. Escape Room £441,358 (£1,636,555, 2 weeks)
8. Vice £330,197 (£3,223,856, 3 weeks)
9. Mary Poppins Returns £275,315 (£43,337,786, 8 weeks)
10. All Is True £266,767 (new release)
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A big pile of toy plastic bricks saw off the putative “new Avatar” as The Lego Movie 2 opened comfortably ahead of Alita: Battle Angel at the top of the chart. Look a little more closely as those figures, however, and you’ll see that the sequel is actually a bit of a flop by Lego standards. That £4m opening is a little less than half the initial £8.1m haul achieved by the first film five years ago. It’s also less than the spin-off Lego Batman movie (£7.9m) and last week’s chart-topper How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (£5.3m), which is pitched at a similar audience. Alita: Battle Angel would have opened in third place had it not been for all those previews. Period Bard romp All Is True was the only other new release to chart, albeit at number 10. Gay conversion therapy drama Boy Erased drummed up very little interest, taking half as much as Bohemian Rhapsody in its 16th (count ’em!) week on release. Things are looking less grim for Barry Jenkins’ lauded If Beale Street Could Talk, however. This one opened in just 52 cinemas (it’s currently showing only at the Watershed in Bristol) and is being expanded to a further 250 this weekend. Expect it to chart next week.
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