Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: January 26-28 2018
1. Darkest Hour £2,672,022 (£15,224,229, 3 weeks)
2. Coco £2,315,450 (£8,165,400, 2 weeks)
3. Maze Runner: The Death Cure £2,247,915 (new release)
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4. The Greatest Showman £2,042,450 (£19,965,506, 5 weeks)
5. Early Man £2,020,653 (new release)
6. The Post £1,604,133 (£5,209,857, 2 weeks)
7. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri £1,249,691 (£7,605,591, 3 weeks)
8. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle £1,219,880 (£34,147,183, 6 weeks)
9. Downsizing £1,131,687 (new release)
10. Padmaavat £850,386 (new release)
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The indefatigable Darkest Hour regained the top spot from Coco over a weekend that saw a wide range of films doing well at the UK box office. Indeed, each of the top nine entries on the chart took more than £1m. The big news round these parts is that Nick Park’s Early Man enjoyed an impressive £2m opening weekend. That puts Aardman’s much-praised prehistoric romp on a par with 2015’s Shaun the Sheep Movie and 2012’s The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists!, but rather behind Wallace and Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, which topped the chart with a £9.3m opening weekend back in 2005. That said, Dug and chums are assured of a long run and will be around to delight children and their adult companions for quite a while yet. Elsewhere, Maze Runner: The Death Cure did marginally better than the first Maze Runner flick but marginally worse than the second one, while Alexander Payne’s Downsizing failed to beat the opening weekend of his earlier The Descendants.
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