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Again, preview numbers are skewing the true picture.
Both films will deliver sizeable preview numbers to inflate their opening weekend box office.
Man of Steel has topped the UK box office for the second weekend in a row, but Despicable Me 2 looks set to dethrone the superhero caper next week after producing remarkable preview numbers over Saturday and Sunday.
The preview numbers will roll over into the film's first full day in cinemas; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 also holds the record here, with $91M to beat on the day.
Ignoring preview numbers, Bridget Jones's Baby has the seventh biggest debut of the year, almost level with Finding Dory (£8.12m) and behind Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Captain America: Civil War, Suicide Squad, Deadpool and The Jungle Book.
Next week, box office should bounce back in spectacular fashion, with the arrival of Transformers, the nationwide expansion of Dragon, plus the addition of all those juicy preview numbers.
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It's too early to project any final total for The Secret Life of Pets, but its preview number is more than double what Zootropolis achieved.
The spin-off, which is set before the events of Star Wars: A New Hope, has beaten Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Captain America: Civil War to score the year's biggest preview number.
The only complication is that its weekday numbers are so strong (the Monday and Tuesday grosses were bigger than the film's Thursday preview number) that the demand might have been siphoned off prior to the Fri-Sun frame.
And now that the film earned $12.7 million on Thursday night, which The Hollywood Reporter reports is the biggest preview number ever for an R-rated film, it looks like we don't have to tell you either.
Stripping out the previews numbers, Sultan's debut falls short of that result.
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