Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: November 2-4 2018
1. Bohemian Rhapsody £5,750,267 (£20,427,866, 2 weeks)
2. A Star is Born £1,821,004 (£22,929,874, 5 weeks)
3. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms £1,733,235 (new release)
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4. Smallfoot £1,145,377 (£10,174,311, 4 weeks)
5. Johnny English Strikes Again £1,041,622 (£16,379,395, 5 weeks)
6. Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween £867,848 (£7,109,456, 3 weeks)
7. Halloween £790,143 (£8,171,544, 3 weeks)
8. Venom £509,204 (£19,532,938, 5 weeks)
9. Slaughterhouse Rulez £397,792 (new release)
10. Peterloo £348,697 (new release)
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As that great music business sage Bobbi Flekman remarks in This Is Spinal Tap: “Money talks and bullshit walks”. While critics were sniffy about its formulaic nature and sanitising of Freddie Mercury, punters around the globe can’t get enough of Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody. Here in the UK, it comfortably held on to the top spot with takings falling a slim 11%. This resulted in the film powering through £20m in just two weeks. Disney’s The Nutcracker and the Four Realms was the biggest new release, but it couldn’t displace the two music-driven movies at the top of the chart. One imagines the big cheeses in the House of Mouse are hoping that punters aren’t quite ready to feel all Christmassy yet, but will flock to their family offering over the next few weeks. For what had been billed in some quarters as the new Shaun of the Dead, the Simon Pegg/Nick Frost horror comedy Slaughterhouse Rulez proved quite the box office flop, barely crawling in to the chart at number nine. Also performing comparatively poorly was Mike Leigh’s most expensive film to date, Peterloo. Obviously, his old foes in the right-wing press hated it, but even many of Leigh’s die-hard lefty fans seem to have stayed at home. The film opened less well than the likes of Mr. Turner, Another Year and Happy-Go-Lucky, all of which were showing in fewer cinemas.
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