Monday 26 October 2009

UK Box Office 23-25 Oct

There's not stopping UP: for the third week it remains number one, for a total of nearly £20 million. Ouch. The annual torture porn fest SAW took £1.7 mil and Wes Anderson's FANTASTIC MR FOX took a modest £1.5 million, proving how difficult a sell this thing was.

1- UP (£3,793,587)
2- SAW VI (£1,736,289)
3- FANTASTIC MR FOX (£1,506,367)
4- COUPLES RETREAT (£932,170)
5- CIRQUE DU FREAK: VAMPIRE'S ASSISTANT (£798,644)
6- IMAGINARIUM OF DR PARNASSUS (£614,717)
7- THE INVENTION OF LYING (£367,310)
8- ZOMBIELAND (£323,815)
9- FAME (£218,110)
10- CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS (£142,482)

The other films that opened this week:

THE COVE - £17,956
GOODS: LIVE HARD, SELL HARD - £35,362
JOHNNY MAD DOG - £6439

3 comments:

  1. Maybe TFMF will pick up some business during Half Term? But would you chose it over Up 3-D if you were part of the traditional Disney/Pixar Crowd? Have you seen the criticism of the McDonald's/TFMF tie-in over at the online website of your favourite newspaper? Didn't know that Disney/Pixar had stopped all that...
    Pretty woeful Top Ten, overall. Roll on Proper Movie Season...

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  2. Fair enough. I just think that no matter where you position Mr Fox it was always going to be a tough sell. Wes Anderson fans are lukewarm, families are lukewarm - it's the same problem faced by Where the Wild Things Are (but that Warners cleverly solved in America) let's see how they fix it here.

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  3. Now I'm REALLY excited about WTWTA in a way that I could never be about TFMF. It's Duke-bound, right?

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