Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: October 12-14, 2018
1. A Star is Born £3,083,089 (£9,595,670, 2 weeks)
2. Venom £3,002,032 (£13,729,817, 2 weeks)
3. Johnny English Strikes Again £2,900,426 (£8,317,202, 2 weeks)
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4. First Man £2,415,330 (new release)
5. Smallfoot £2,324,189 (new release)
6. Cliff Richard Live: 60th Anniversary Concert £1,125,356 (new release)
7. Kler £1,006,141 (new release)
8. Bad Times at the El Royale £491,878
9. The House with a Clock in Its Walls £399,028 (£7,408,371, 4 weeks)
10. Night School £357,617 (£3,828,628, 3 weeks)
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As we predicted here last week, Venom and Johnny English Strikes Again both shot their wads over their opening weekends, with huge drops of 46% and 41% respectively. Simply by standing still, A Star is Born leapfrogged into first place. There was also something else going on, as you’ll have discovered if you tried to see the Bradley Cooper/Lady Gaga musical at either of our Vue cinemas. Distributors Warner Brothers and the Vue chain were having a spat over the spoils, as a result of which Vue wasn’t showing the film during its opening weekend. That’s now been resolved, so it’s playing at rather more cinemas now. All the Oscar hype in the world wasn’t strong enough to propel First Man into the top three, but it still opened pretty strongly, as did kiddie animation Smallfoot. Sprightly septuagenarian Sir Cliff Richard joined the likes of Andre Reiu and Take That in the £1m club with the live broadcast of his Manchester show. Further down the chart, Polish-language flick Kler took more than twice as much as Bad Times at the El Royale.
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