Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: January 12-14 2018
1. Darkest Hour £4,058,356 (new release)
2. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle £2,435,626 (£29,912,422, 4 weeks)
3. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri £2,361,782 (new release)
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4. The Greatest Showman £2,142,337 (£13,537211, 3 weeks)
5. Insidious: The Last Key £1,840,992 (new release)
6. Star Wars: The Last Jedi £1,717106 (£79,867,006, 5 weeks)
7. Pitch Perfect 3 £840,059 (£14,147,058, 4 weeks)
8. All the Money in the World £539,706 (£2,417,003, 2 weeks)
9. Molly’s Game £522,456 (£3,378,232, 2 weeks)
10. Paddington 2 £401,521 (£41,056,106, 10 weeks)
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If gongs were dished out on the basis of box office receipts alone, Joe Wright’s Darkest Hour would be the clear awards season winner so far. With £4m in the kitty, it’s Wright’s biggest opener at the UK box office by a wide margin and is already on course to become his most successful film. Martin McDonagh’s rapturously received Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is also outstripping its predecessor, Seven Psychopaths, but couldn’t quite manage to dislodge kidflick Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. This one’s also proving a global winner, especially in the growing Chinese market, where Star Wars: The Last Jedi has just flopped. Here, while the Star Wars flick tumbled from second to sixth place, it’s closing on Titanic‘s £80.3m to become the fifth biggest film of all time at the UK box office.
Incidentally, if the weekend previews of Pixar’s Coco were included, it would have charted in fifth place, pushing Star Wars down another notch. But the arcane rules governing these things mean that Coco‘s £1.88m will be amalgamated into its opening ‘weekend’ next week, which rather suggests that Winnie is looking at just the one week at the top.
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