That's both the highest second-frame takings and the highest total after two weekends of play since Skyfall in 2012.
While Monkey is sure the honourable member was mostly concerned with the safety of Littlewoods employee pensions and the tax takings at HMRC, it seems unlikely any follow-up to The Four Streets will be getting especially favourable reviews in the Telegraph.
Since the middle of March, takings have been pretty consistently up on the equivalent sessions a year ago, and in recent weeks markedly so.
It took the No 1 spot at the US box office, but with $24.5m in first-week takings scored significantly lower than comparable biblical epics The Passion of the Christ ($83.8m) and Noah ($43.7m).
Thanks to the wealth of riches spread across so many titles, takings were 25% up on the Boxing Day weekend, and 7% up on the equivalent session from 2013, which was considered a fantastic period for cinemagoing at the time.
Made with a budget of $100 million, that film was supposed to be the Chinese film industry's bid for an Oscar and big American box-office takings.
For the first time since January, six films managed £1m in weekend takings at the UK box office, spreading the wealth evenly.
The shares closed at a eight-month low of 141.1p, a fall of 2.3% from Friday when Britain's biggest bookmaker confirmed a rights issue and conceded too few draws had hurt takings.
Superhero sequel Avengers: Age of Ultron scored the second highest opening of all time at the US box office over the weekend, with takings of $187.7m £124mm).
Though its takings impressed, reaction was mixed.
Those takings covered about half the costs and gave her a salary, not that she cared much.
