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1. Comscore Movies UK & Ireland‏ @cSMoviesUK 5m5 minutes ago

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   THIS WEEK'S TOP 5 FILMS: 1 - Avengers: Endgame 2 - Dumbo 3 - Red Joan 4 - Captain Marvel 5 - Shazam!replies .0 retweets0 likes

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2. Comscore Movies UK & Ireland‏ @cSMoviesUK 6m6 minutes ago

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   THURSDAY: 1 - Avengers: Endgame 2 - Red Joan 3 - Dumbo 4 - Wild Rose 5 - Captain Marvel

[Krissykins]

Sell out report for this weekend at my local cinema: zero

 

 

[Stewart]

@RtheEnd any weekend numbers so far for UK?

[Rthmessiah]

13 minutes ago, Stewart said:

@RtheEnd any weekend numbers so far for UK?

Looking around lc15 cume hitting 70m 

Edited May 5, 2019 by RtheEnd

[Stewart]

6 minutes ago, RtheEnd said:

Looking around lc19.5m cume hitting 90m 

HOLY SHIT THAT'S HUGE

 

thanks for that, looks like TFA might actually be in danger here 

[Heretic]

So could hit £75m with tomorrow included. Just misses out on 2nd weekend record, but I guess a big drop was expected given how huge the opening was. 

[Lordmandeep]

Wait with 75 million it already beat iw total lol?

[Heretic]

8 minutes ago, Stewart said:

HOLY SHIT THAT'S HUGE

 

thanks for that, looks like TFA might actually be in danger here 

You must have seen the old number before Rth edited post, it will be around £75m by tomorrow. 

 

There’s little to no chance this passes TFA, right now £100m is the target, perhaps it can too Skyfall for 2nd biggest film of all time.

[Heretic]

2 minutes ago, Lordmandeep said:

Wait with 75 million it already beat iw total lol?

Yes 

[Stewart]

1 hour ago, Heretic said:

You must have seen the old number before Rth edited post, it will be around £75m by tomorrow. 

 

There’s little to no chance this passes TFA, right now £100m is the target, perhaps it can too Skyfall for 2nd biggest film of all time.

Ah dammit, Rth knows I'm quick so was just teasing me...

 

Still though, TFA was never expected here (hence my response), so £100m should be touch-and-go.

 

I'm actually more interested this weekend in how Tolkien did, LOTR is well loved and I actually saw a few sellouts around.

[Lordmandeep]

10 hours ago, Heretic said:

Yes 

 

 

Thats a epic run for the MCU there already? 

Final likely 90+ ? 

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'Avengers: Endgame' scores huge second weekend at UK box office, 'Tolkien' disappoints

 

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Today’s GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.31.

Disney

Disney’s Avengers: Endgame dominated the UK box office, achieving the second-highest second weekend ever and breaking into the all-time top 10 for the territory.

The film grossed £14.3m from Friday to Sunday, with only Sam Mendes’ James Bond title Skyfall doing better over a second session, with £16.1m in November 2012.

Adding in the Monday Bank Holiday takings of £4.2m, the film is now up to £73.5m after just 12 days, breaking in to the all-time UK top 10 in eighth spot ahead of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (£73.1m).

It has now passed the lifetime gross of all other Marvel titles, including Avengers: Infinity War(£71m), Marvel Avengers Assemble (£51.9m) and Black Panther (£50.6m), and is the highest-grossing superhero film of all time in the UK.

As far as Disney-distributed titles go, it is only behind the UK’s highest-grossing film ever, 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens, which ended on £123.2m; and Toy Story 3, which took £74.1m in 2010. Endgame has comfortably surpassed that title’s first (£34m) and second (£10.2m) weekends, so stands a good shot of taking the number one crown in weeks to come. However The Force Awakens played over the Christmas holidays which contributed to its strong tail; the film actually rose 1% to £10.3m from its second to third weekend.

Avengers: Endgame has also become the second-highest grossing film of all time worldwide, hitting $2.2bn, including $621.3m in the US.

Disney has three titles in the weekend top 10, with Dumbo taking third place with £475,000 Friday to Sunday to hit £24.3m to date; and Captain Marvel adding £161,000 to hit £39.3m.

Lionsgate

Romantic comedy Long Shot starring Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron opened in second place, with £814,897 Friday to Sunday and £1.1m including previews and the Bank Holiday takings.

This meant that for the second time in the past three weekends, no non-Avengers title took more than £1m. The only non-Avengers film to pass that mark in that time was Dumbo last weekend, which scraped past it with £1.016m.

Spy drama Red Joan dropped 61% on its third weekend, taking £166,964 to take it to £2.1m so far. Missing Link added £57,171 and has £3.1m. 

eOne 

eOne figures still to be reported.

Warner Bros

Horror The Curse Of La Llorona took the final top five spot with a £590,000 Friday to Sunday result. With Monday’s extras it has reached £769,626. This is the lowest start of the six titles in Warner Bros’ Conjuring franchise, which so far includes two Conjuring films, two Annabellefilms and last year’s The Nun.

Shazam! took £142,000 at the weekend - a 64% drop no doubt in part due to Avengers - and £71,000 on Monday for £13.2m to date.

20th Century Fox

Dome Karukoski’s Tolkien, about the formative years of the Lord Of The Rings author, opened to a disappointing £550,348, and has £742,771 across the four days. Interest does not seem to have transferred from Peter Jackson’s Lord Of The Rings or The Hobbit trilogies, with the lowest opening of those six films coming in at £9.4m.

Indian romance Kalank added £36,136 on its third weekend for £962,378 to date.

Paramount

Family animation Wonder Park topped up £234,000 Friday to Sunday and has £4.2m including Monday’s results. Pet Sematary added £34,000 on its fifth weekend, and is also at £4.2m.

Sony

Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade dropped 44% on its second weekend, adding £70,000. A further £27,000 on Monday took it to £334,000 overall.

Universal

How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World saw a 12% uptick on its 14th weekend at the box office, taking £51,308 for £19.7m so far.

Other Universal titles nearing the end of their run include Little, adding £49,158 for £1.8m after four weekends; Greta, adding £46,585 for £936,643 after three; Us - £40,531 for £9.9m after seven; and The Sisters Brothers - £13,205 for £752,948 after five.

 

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Picturehouse Entertainment 

Benedikt Erlingsson’s Cannes 2018 title Woman At War opened in 34 locations over the weekend, taking £57,043 for a decent £1,678 site average. Adding in previews and Monday’s results, the film is up to £92,038 with a few sites still to report.

Curzon

Pop drama Vox Lux starring Natalie Portman took £31,517 from 34 sites, and has £49,105 including previews and Monday. 

Loro added £16,235 for £146,964 to date, while At Eternity’s Gate topped up £3,582 for £334,263. 

Entertainment Film

Seaside singing feature Fisherman’s Friends took £25,219 over the three days, and has risen to £7.1m.

Modern Films

A special presentation of An Accidental Studio: The Story Of HandMade Films took £2,135, and has £8,161 with previews, ahead of the its premiere on AMC’S UK channel last Friday.

Kinostar

Russian adventure comedy Milliard played in 12 locations, six of which have reported £1,602 takings so far.

Further box office results to follow.

Screen International‏Verified account @Screendaily 1h1 hour ago

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'Woman At War' makes a decent start to its run, approaching £100,000 from its first four days - full UK box office results: http://bit.ly/2Yd6SwC 

[Stewart]

Personally I think £550k for Tolkien is actually pretty good all things considered. 

 

£18.5m for the 4-day for Endgame is ridiculously huge. 

 

Should easily hit £100m in a couple weeks

[Jonwo]

I'll be curious to see how Detective Pikachu does this weekend, I've been looking at a few showtimes and it seems to be selling well. 

[Olive]

May 3- 5

1	Avengers: Endgame	2019/4/26	£ 14,331,192	£ 69,330,816	Walt Disney Int'l
2	Long Shot	2019/5/3	£ 856,333	£ 856,333	Lionsgate
3	Curse Of La Llorona, The	2019/5/3	£ 609,745	£ 609,745	Warner Bros Int'l
4	Tolkien	2019/5/3	£ 554,835	£ 554,835	Fox Int'l
5	Dumbo	2019/3/29	£ 477,257	£ 24,018,147	Walt Disney Int'l
6	Wonder Park	2019/4/12	£ 235,045	£ 4,073,701	Paramount Int'l
7	Red Joan	2019/4/19	£ 167,475	£ 2,063,664	Lionsgate
8	Captain Marvel	2019/3/8	£ 162,989	£ 39,234,293	Walt Disney Int'l
9	Shazam!	2019/4/5	£ 143,178	£ 13,151,121	Warner Bros Int'l
10	Eighth Grade	2019/4/26	£ 69,786	£ 306,969	Sony Int'l

[charlie Jatinder]

$130mn closing IMO. Over under GBP 100mn.

[Heretic]

It will be quite difficult for Detective Pikachu to take the number 1 spot this weekend given the lack of screens it’s been allocated. Expecting it’ll be able to reach about £5m or so, but may not be enough to top Endgame. 

[Jonwo]

Detective Pikachu is selling very well, I wonder if the lack of screen allocation has worked in its favour. 

[Heretic]

Yeah it looks very busy, could top Endgame actually, although that depends if the capacity is enough. 

[Stewart]

12 minutes ago, Heretic said:

Yeah it looks very busy, could top Endgame actually, although that depends if the capacity is enough. 

Yeah, it was very busy when I went. Also interesting was that there were a lot of walkups. 

 

Although I'm concerned about legs, there were basically zero families at my showing, majority were nerdy teenagers. Nothing wrong with that, but might mean it's frontloaded.