Daniel Bruhl and Rosamund Pike star as German radicals in Jose Padilha’s thriller about the 1976 rescue of hostages from a hijacked Air France flight diverted to Uganda. Dennis Quaid and Cloris Leachman also star in the true-life story, which is tracking to open in the $3 million-$5 million range, with plenty of room for upside.įinally, Focus Features will debut 7 Days in Entebbe in roughly 800 theaters. Michael Finley, lead singer of the Christian band MercyMe, who wrote the song “I Can Only Imagine,” the best-selling Christian single of all time. Getting an early jump on Easter, Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate will open the faith-based film I Can Only Imagine in more than 1,600 cinemas. Josh Duhamel and Jennifer Garner co-star in the $17 million feature, which will get a berth in more than 2,400 locations. Greg Berlanti directed the Fox 2000 dramedy, which stars Nick Robinson as Simon Spier, a closeted high schooler who tries to find out the identity of an anonymous classmate he’s fallen in love with online. It earned a promising $14 million-plus last weekend as it rolled out early in select Asian territories.Ī Wrinkle in Time, which bowed to a muted $33.1 million in North America last weekend, hopes to suffer only a small drop due to it being the only broad family film in the marketplace.Īmong other new offerings besides Tomb Raider, Fox will open YA adaptation Love, Simon, the first film from a major Hollywood studio featuring a gay teen protagonist.
launch, including in China and a slew of other markets. The new Tomb Raider is making a major push overseas this weekend timed to its U.S. Total: £4,437,675 (four weeks)ġ0.The first film in the original franchise, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, opened to a rousing $47.7 million in June 2001 (and more than $77 million when adjusted for inflation), while the sequel, Lara Croft: The Cradle of Life, debuted to just $21 million two years later. Finding Your Feet, £285,202 from 406 sites. The Shape of Water, £289,641 from 311 sites. The Greatest Showman, £1,059,983 from 514 sites. Titles arriving this weekend include A Wrinkle in Time, Pacific Rim: Uprising and Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane. Box office has been down on the year-ago equivalents for every week of March so far, and it looks highly unlikely that the month can catch up. However, it’s exactly a year since the arrival of Disney’s massively successful Beauty and the Beast, so UK and Ireland box office is down a troubling 42% on that weekend. Largely thanks to the arrival of Peter Rabbit, the market is 54% up on the previous session. The weekend number is a more humble £9,400. It took £260,000 from 17 sites, but £251,000 of that was earned from last Wednesday’s premiere event, relayed to hundreds of cinemas nationwide. The chart appears to show a fantastic debut for documentary My Generation, in which Michael Caine reflects on the cultural and social upheavals of the 1960s. Loveless has so far reached £307,000, and A Fantastic Woman, which won the Oscar, is at £239,000. Recent comparisons are fellow foreign language Oscar nominees Loveless (debut of £74,000 from 39 sites, and £126,000 including previews) and A Fantastic Woman (debut of £64,000 from 38 sites, and £98,000 including previews). The arthouse challenger: The Squareĭelivering the biggest debut for a foreign language arthouse film so far this year, Ruben Östlund’s The Square begins with a robust £155,000 from 56 cinemas, and £221,000 including previews. In 2004, The Passion of the Christ grossed £2.02m on its first weekend of national wide release, from 323 cinemas.
The answer, so far, is that it’s succeeding at being neither, based on its debut of £239,000 from 423 cinemas, yielding a weak £565 average. Is Mary Magdalene a prestige drama, targeting audiences attracted by Lion director Garth Davis and a cast including Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Tahar Rahim? Or is it aiming for the faith crowd, who propelled Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ to £11.1m at UK cinemas?