Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: November 22-24 2019
1. Frozen II £15,088,012 (new release)
2. Last Christmas £2,251,948 (£6,736,746, 2 weeks)
3. Blue Story £1,324,510 (new release)
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4. Le Mans ’66 £1,174,553 (£4,234,327, weeks)
5. 21 Bridges £655,214 (new release)
6. Joker £506,763 (£57,074,611, 8 weeks)
7. The Good Liar £263,002 (£3,223,157, 3 weeks)
8. The Addams Family £241,374 (£9,387,798, 5 weeks)
9. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil £237,581 (£14,422,190, 6 weeks)
10. Met Opera: Akhnaten £170,400 (new release)
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It’s perhaps not entirely surprising that Disney broke the UK record for the biggest opening of an animated film with Frozen II. How long has that record been standing? Erm, five months. Disney’s Toy Story 4 bagged it back in June. Meanwhile, all the headlines were snaffled by Blue Story. Whatever you make of the controversy, that’s one hell of a result for the fella who calls himself Rapman. This feature debut by a young British director starring no one you’ve ever heard of took twice as much at the UK box office as the new action vehicle for Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman, 21 Bridges. It’s also worth bearing in mind that the film’s £1.3m haul came before it began to hit the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Further down the chart, Joker was finally knocked out of top five and took less than £1m over the weekend for the first time since its release eight weeks ago. The supervillain origin story is now number 23 in UK all-time chart and will soon start overtaking those Lord of the Rings films. Flops? Well, Harriet has been touted as an awards contender in some quarters, but has failed to drum up much public interest so far, with a feeble opening weekend of £108,000. At least this wasn’t quite as disastrous as Them That Follow, which only managed a pitiful £5,000.
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