Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: October 26-28 2018
1. Bohemian Rhapsody £9,530,463 (new release)
2. A Star is Born £2,150,987 (£19,238,711, 4 weeks)
3. Halloween £1,678,162 (£5,854,328, 2 weeks)
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4. Smallfoot £1,577,531 (£7,691,245, 3 weeks)
5. Johnny English Strikes Again £1,544,459 (£14,172,794, 4 weeks)
6. Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween £1,377,680 (£4,918,129, 2 weeks)
7. The Hate U Give £911,309 (new release)
8. Venom £855,826 (£18, 452,016, 4 weeks)
9. First Man £605,032 (£6,559,818, 3 weeks)
10. Metropolitan Opera Live: La Fanciulla del West £186,621 (new release)
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Another bumper weekend at the UK box office saw each of the top six films take more than £1m. But there was no doubt about the decisive winner. Those of us who yearned for an 18-rated Freddie Mercury movie were swept aside in the surge to be rocked by Queen’s mightily impressive back catalogue soundtracking a rather conventional biopic. By the weekend, Bohemian Rhapsody will have become the most successful music biopic ever released in the UK. It’s noticeable too that each of the top two films in the chart are music-heavy – if not, by strict definition, musicals. Also performing strongly was the well-received YA novel adaptation, The Hate U Give, albeit with takings augmented by four full days of previews. In the battle of the kidflicks, Smallfoot is beating that second Goosebumps movie. The animation climbed two places as it enjoyed a 14% half-term boost.
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