UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 12th to Sunday 14th April 2013...
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Despite mixed reviews, director Joseph Kosinski's Tom Cruise-headlined sci-fi Oblivionpulled in a solid opening weekend haul here in the UK, topping the box office chart with a solid £4,959,386, which included two days of previews. The arrival of Oblivion marked the end of The Croods' hold over the chart, with the animated caveman comedy slipping to second, but adding another £2 million to give the DreamWorks release a strong £22.7 million to date - almost as much as Disney has banked from it's biggest ever (non-Pixar) UK hit Wreck-It Ralph.
If Oblivion's reviews were mixed, then Scary Movie 5's were the stuff of nightmares, but that didn't stop the latest instalment in the well-past-its-sell-by-date spoof series from pulling in £1,085,932 to claim third ahead of another newcomer, The Place Beyond the Pines, with the Ryan Gosling / Bradley Cooper drama banking £671,119. G.I. Joe: Retaliation fell three places to fith, while fairy tale fantasies Jack the Giant Slayer and Oz the Great and Powerful slipped two apiece to sixth and seventh. Danny Boyle's latest, Trance, dropped four spots to eighth, while sci-fi horror Dark Skies plunged from third to ninth and The Host wrapped up the chart in tenth after a seventh-placed finish last time around.
Number one this time last year: Titanic
1. Oblivion - £4,959,386 weekend (New)
2. The Croods - £1,999,475 weekend; £22,736,517 total (4 weeks)
3. Scary Movie 5 - £1,085,932 weekend (New)
4. The Place Beyond the Pines - £671,119 weekend (New)
5. G.I. Joe: Retaliation - £525,234 weekend; £6,909,942 total (3 weeks)
6. Jack the Giant Slayer - £451,509 weekend; £7,081,962 total (4 weeks)
7. Oz the Great and Powerful - £391,733 weekend; £14,668,721 total (5 weeks)
8. Trance - £339,480 weekend; £4,103,341 total (3 weeks)
9. Dark Skies - £308,456 weekend; £1,872,838 total (2 weeks)
10. The Host - £239,291 weekend; £3,227,965 total (2 weeks)
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While all eyes are on the arrival of Iron Man 3 next Thursday, several new films enter the UK marketplace this week, hoping to get in early before the box office dominance of Marvel's latest. The big release this week is the Gerard Butler White House actioner Olympus Has Fallen (cert. 15), which opens on Wednesday, while Thursday brings us the horror remake Evil Dead (cert. 18) [read our review here] and Friday's releases include romance Love Is All You Need (cert. 15) and the Matt Damon drama Promised Land (cert. 15).
If Oblivion's reviews were mixed, then Scary Movie 5's were the stuff of nightmares, but that didn't stop the latest instalment in the well-past-its-sell-by-date spoof series from pulling in £1,085,932 to claim third ahead of another newcomer, The Place Beyond the Pines, with the Ryan Gosling / Bradley Cooper drama banking £671,119. G.I. Joe: Retaliation fell three places to fith, while fairy tale fantasies Jack the Giant Slayer and Oz the Great and Powerful slipped two apiece to sixth and seventh. Danny Boyle's latest, Trance, dropped four spots to eighth, while sci-fi horror Dark Skies plunged from third to ninth and The Host wrapped up the chart in tenth after a seventh-placed finish last time around.
Number one this time last year: Titanic
1. Oblivion - £4,959,386 weekend (New)
2. The Croods - £1,999,475 weekend; £22,736,517 total (4 weeks)
3. Scary Movie 5 - £1,085,932 weekend (New)
4. The Place Beyond the Pines - £671,119 weekend (New)
5. G.I. Joe: Retaliation - £525,234 weekend; £6,909,942 total (3 weeks)
6. Jack the Giant Slayer - £451,509 weekend; £7,081,962 total (4 weeks)
7. Oz the Great and Powerful - £391,733 weekend; £14,668,721 total (5 weeks)
8. Trance - £339,480 weekend; £4,103,341 total (3 weeks)
9. Dark Skies - £308,456 weekend; £1,872,838 total (2 weeks)
10. The Host - £239,291 weekend; £3,227,965 total (2 weeks)
Incoming...
While all eyes are on the arrival of Iron Man 3 next Thursday, several new films enter the UK marketplace this week, hoping to get in early before the box office dominance of Marvel's latest. The big release this week is the Gerard Butler White House actioner Olympus Has Fallen (cert. 15), which opens on Wednesday, while Thursday brings us the horror remake Evil Dead (cert. 18) [read our review here] and Friday's releases include romance Love Is All You Need (cert. 15) and the Matt Damon drama Promised Land (cert. 15).