The weekend delivered the lowest overall grosses of the past year, with no film achieving takings in excess of £1m.
For the second weekend in a row, a mighty seven films – see chart below – have all achieved weekend takings of £1m-plus.
Despite its 11% increase, The Woman in Black very nearly missed out on the top spot, thanks to a 29% rise for Disney's The Muppets, which achieved second-frame takings of £3.41m.
In 2014, Starred Up brought a commercial breakthrough, achieving UK cinema takings of just over £1.5m, following a debut of £495,000 (including £17,000 previews) from 316 cinemas.
Movie 43 is the only film in the top 10 that achieved higher takings on Friday than on Sunday, which is typical of: a) teen-skewing titles; b) films not benefiting from approving word of mouth.
The film achieved 77% of its takings in the format, despite being on more 2D screens than 3D ones.
Despite a potential weekly gross of $1.3m£881,00000) the musical has only achieved 50% of that figure intermittently, with its record weekly gross standing at $704 ,545, and with its total takings to date standing at just over $11m.
I suspect the French are much happier to be playing England this weekend than they would have been facing Scotland, because in rugby you achieve redemption through the taking of a major scalp.
The irony is that weekend takings of £304,000 are 6% up on the previous weekend, and are in fact the highest achieved so far.
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