Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: May 25-27 2018
1. Solo: A Star Wars Story £6,061,231 (new release)
2. Deadpool 2 £3,771,293 (£20, 682,579, 2 weeks)
3. Avengers: Infinity War £1,215,206 (£66,138,820, 5 weeks)
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4. Sherlock Gnomes £689,914 (£4,343,619, 3 weeks)
5. Show Dogs £546,405 (new release)
6. I Feel Pretty £278,748 (£4,467,136, 4 weeks)
7. Secret Cinema: Blade Runner: The Final Cut £227,194 (£3,417,728, 10 weeks)
8. On Chesil Beach £170,841 (£288,350, 2 weeks)
9. Peter Rabbit £118,214 (£40,253,293, 11 weeks)
10. Life of the Party £112,995 (£1,409,252, 3 weeks)
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While it might seem rather odd to describe a chart-topping film with an opening ‘weekend’ in excess of £6m as a flop, that’s what Solo: A Star Wars Story is by inflated Star Wars standards. The first Star Wars anthology film, Rogue One, took nearly three times as much (£17.3m, fact fans) during its four-day opening back in December 2016. And Solo doesn’t even have the excuse of sunny weather to fall back on, as it wasn’t exactly a glorious Bank Holiday weekend. The blame game has already begun, with some citing poor advance publicity over the film’s troubled production. Others suggest that franchise fatigue has set in, as it’s just six months since the previous Star Wars film, The Last Jedi. Mind you, Marvel doesn’t seem to be suffering, even though it flings new superhero movies at us on an almost monthly basis. Show Dogs was the only other new release to make the chart, though it lost out to Sherlock Gnomes in the battle for the kiddy pound. Outside the top ten, lauded animation The Breadwinner did rather better than biddy drama Edie.
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