Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: November 3-5, 2017
1. Murder on the Orient Express £4,985,600 (new release)
2. Thor: Ragnarok £4,617,180 (£20,789,487, 2 weeks)
3. A Bad Moms Christmas £1,781,738 (new release)
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4. Jigsaw £752,137 (£3,680,161, 2 weeks)
5. The Death of Stalin £520,275 (£3,599,835, 3 weeks)
6. The LEGO Ninjago Movie £470,870 (£9,071,791, 4 weeks)
7. My Little Pony £387,946 (£3,233,365, 3 weeks)
8. Blade Runner 2049 £347,024 (£18,202,599, 5 weeks)
9. Pokemon The Movie: I Choose You! £304,435 (new release)
10. The Killing of a Sacred Deer £286,448 (new release)
Chart copyright Rentrak
Disney/Marvel probably weren’t anticipating that Thor: Ragnarok would enjoy just one week at the top. But that’s what happened, as the superhero flick was narrowly deposed by the decidedly old-school crime-fighting of Murder on the Orient Express. Ken Branagh’s Agatha Christie adaptation now ranks as his biggest ever UK opener, well ahead of Cinderella. And while that £4.9m tally didn’t trouble the compilers of record books, Poirot’s older-skewing audience is likely to shuffle to cinemas in a far more seemly and sedate fashion than stampeding teenage blockbuster enthusiasts over the next few weeks, ensuring a cumulative total that should easily breach the £20m barrier. Disney will be cheered to find that Thor: Ragnarok managed this feat in just two weeks, and has now overtaken Thor: The Dark World to become the hammer-wielding lunk’s most successful outing at the UK box office. With Halloween over, all the horror films collapsed (Jigsaw was down 50% and Happy Death Day 60%) as audiences ceased wanting to be scared and came over all prematurely Christmassy. Desperate comedy sequel A Bad Moms Christmas was the beneficiary, opening a little ahead of the first film. At the foot of the chart, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos achieved his best-ever UK debut with The Killing of a Sacred Deer.
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