Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: September 13-15 2019
1. Downton Abbey £5,180,865 (new release)
2. It: Chapter Two £3,161,317 (£13,596,306, 2 weeks)
3. Hustlers £1,353,324 (new release)
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4. Once upon a Time in Hollywood £557,889 (£19,818,323, 5 weeks)
5. The Lion King £439,795 (£73,846,727, 9 weeks)
6. Angel Has Fallen £382,184 (£6,739,422, 4 weeks)
7. Secret Cinema: Casino Royale £343,261 (£7,595,958, 15 weeks)
8. Dora and the Lost City of Gold £277,896 (£5,144,357, 5 weeks)
9. Toy Story 4 £265,727 (£64,938,181, 13 weeks)
10. Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw £192,917 (£20,121,138, 7 weeks)
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Universal’s hunch that audiences would flock to cinemas to watch Maggie Smith pulling her slapped arse face on the big screen proved to be well founded. Easily the biggest draw of the weekend, the Downton Abbey movie’s £5.1m opening haul might have been relatively modest by blockbuster standards but it’s stratospherically huge in the costume drama world. Indeed, by next weekend the cosy TV spin-off should have surpassed the total earnings of Julian Fellowes’ harder-edged biggest box office hit to date, 2002’s Gosford Park. Gyrating J-Lo had to settle for third place as crime comedy Hustlers failed to dislodge It: Chapter Two, despite the latter suffering a huge 54% drop in takings. Finally, let’s hear it once again for the locally produced arthouse favourite Bait, which is racing towards the quarter-of-a-million quid mark – a phenomenal result for such a small-scale, BFI-distributed drama.
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