Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: November 16-18 2018
1. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald £12,318,966 (new release)
2. The Grinch £3,906,597 (£10,044,223, 2 weeks)
3. Bohemian Rhapsody £3,021,648 (£34,854,038, 4 weeks)
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4. Widows £882,243 (£4,317,425, 2 weeks)
5. A Star is Born £746,986 (£27,107,688, 7 weeks)
6. Burn the Stage: The Movie £644,524 (new release)
7. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms £610,974 (£4,326,066, 3 weeks)
8. Johnny English Strikes Again £215,252 (£17,411,221, 7 weeks)
9. Suspiria £166,257 (new release)
10. Smallfoot £161,068 (£10,840,021, 6 weeks)
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Absolutely no surprises this week as Potter prequel sequel (if you get my drift) Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald scores a decisive victory at the top of the chart. That said, the Beasts’ £12.3m opening is £3m behind that of the first film in the series. Nobody is using the word ‘flop’, but The Crimes of Grindelwald will have to pull in an awful lot of punters between now and Christmas to stand any chance of matching the box office performance of its predecessor. Everything else slipped down a place, with Bohemian Rhapsody now comfortably ahead of A Star Is Born. On the event cinema front, Korean boy band Burn the Stage (me neither) did exceptionally well with a £650,000 opening of their movie, without reaching the Take That/Andre Rieu £1m+ league. The stage burners also eclipsed Coldplay, whose A Head Full of Dreams documentary reaped £500,000 last week. (In case you’re wondering why this doesn’t win a place in the top ten, remember these are weekend figures, so high-performing weekday event cinema screenings are always excluded.)
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