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Weekend box office report: 13-15 August 2021

1. Free Guy

In the extremely popular video game, Free City, a NPC named Guy learns the true nature of his existence when he meets the girl of his dreams, a human player. This player's interactions with Guy has massive affects on him, the game, and real world as they play it.
  • Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
  • Director(s): Shawn Levy
  • Writer(s): Matt Lieberman, Zak Penn
  • Actors(s): Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Taika Waititi
  • Runtime: 115 min
  • Total gross to date: £2,477,891.00
  • Weekend gross: £2,477,891.00
  • Number of cinemas: 627
  • Site average: £3,952.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Disney
  • Change from last week: -
  • Weeks on release: 1
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.1/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 80%
  • Metacritic: 62/100
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2. The Paw Patrol Movie

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  • Total gross to date: £2,410,496.00
  • Weekend gross: £2,410,496.00
  • Number of cinemas: 581
  • Site average: £4,149.00
  • Country of origin: Can/USA
  • Distributor: Paramount
  • Change from last week: -
  • Weeks on release: 1
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3. The Suicide Squad

In exchange for lighter sentences, just like the anti-hero team in Suicide Squad (2016), a new batch of Belle Reve's meta-humans strike a deal with the cold head of Task Force X, Amanda Waller. This time, her ragtag band of super-powered convicts--Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker, King Shark, Polka-Dot Man, and Ratcatcher 2--venture into the peril-laden South American island nation of Corto Maltese to find the Thinker: the evil scientist in charge of the mysterious Project Starfish. But, as the band joins forces with an old leader of the notorious team, humankind is on the verge of extinction. Can the expendable Suicide Squad stop the new menace that could mean the end of the world as we know it?
  • Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
  • Director(s): James Gunn
  • Writer(s): James Gunn
  • Actors(s): Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena
  • Runtime: 132 min
  • Total gross to date: £10,821,372.00
  • Weekend gross: £1,067,025.00
  • Number of cinemas: 623
  • Site average: £1,713.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Warner Bros
  • Change from last week: -53
  • Weeks on release: 3
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.2/10
  • Metacritic: 72/100
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4. Jungle Cruise

1916. Dreaming about saving countless lives and having another adventure, the feisty English feminist and doctor of botany, Dr Lily Houghton, embarks on a peril-laden mission to change the world. Along with her fashionable brother, MacGregor, Dr Houghton enlists the help of the arrogant, wisecracking riverboat skipper, Captain Frank Wolff, to guide them through the serpentine Amazon River in La Quila, his swift wooden boat. Now, as the intrepid trio ventures deeper and deeper into the heart of an impenetrable green maze, searching for something that cannot be found, a centuries-old curse and the ruthless aristocrat, Prince Joachim, threaten to put an end to their ambitious plans. And, sooner or later, the jungle always wins. Is it true that the Spanish conquistador, Don Aguirre, was lost in the same God-forsaken part of the world?
  • Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
  • Director(s): Jaume Collet-Serra
  • Writer(s): Michael Green, Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
  • Actors(s): Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Edgar Ramírez
  • Runtime: 127 min
  • Total gross to date: £8,476,137.00
  • Weekend gross: £847,031.00
  • Number of cinemas: 610
  • Site average: £1,389.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Disney
  • Change from last week: -56
  • Weeks on release: 3
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.6/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 62%
  • Metacritic: 50/100
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5. Space Jam: A New Legacy

A algorithm named Al G Rhythm captures famed basketball player LeBron James and his son Dom. Al G challenges LeBron to a basketball game against Al's digitized champions. LeBron gets the help of Bugs Bunny and the Looney Tunes to win the basketball game and get his son back.
  • Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
  • Director(s): Malcolm D. Lee
  • Writer(s): Leo Benvenuti, Steve Rudnick, Timothy Harris
  • Actors(s): LeBron James, Don Cheadle, Cedric Joe
  • Runtime: 115 min
  • Total gross to date: £10,124,128.00
  • Weekend gross: £506,179.00
  • Number of cinemas: 575
  • Site average: £880.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Warner Bros
  • Change from last week: -52
  • Weeks on release: 5
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 4.5/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 26%
  • Metacritic: 36/100
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6. The Croods 2: A New Age

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  • Total gross to date: £7,026,625.00
  • Weekend gross: £421,529.00
  • Number of cinemas: 605
  • Site average: £697.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Universal
  • Change from last week: -51
  • Weeks on release: 5
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7. Don't Breathe 2

Hiding out for years in an isolated cabin, Norman Nordstrom has taken in and raised a young girl orphaned from a house fire. Their quiet existence is shattered when a group of kidnappers show up and take the girl, forcing Norman to leave his safe haven to save her.
  • Genre: Action, Crime, Horror
  • Director(s): Rodo Sayagues
  • Writer(s): Fede Alvarez, Rodo Sayagues
  • Actors(s): Stephen Lang, Madelyn Grace, Brendan Sexton III
  • Runtime: 98 min
  • Total gross to date: £349,702.00
  • Weekend gross: £349,702.00
  • Number of cinemas: 404
  • Site average: £866.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Sony Pictures
  • Change from last week: -
  • Weeks on release: 1
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.0/10
  • Metacritic: 46/100
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8. The Courier

In the shadow of the Cold War a letter from Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze) an agency of the Soviet Union received by MI6 stating the concern of Penkovsky about world safety and his anxiety about a nuclear war, So Emily Donovan (Rachel Brosnahan) a CIA Agent reached out to MI6 Agent Dickie Franks (Angus Wright) , who recruited British salesman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) to be their spy.
  • Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
  • Director(s): Dominic Cooke
  • Writer(s): Tom O'Connor
  • Actors(s): Benedict Cumberbatch, Merab Ninidze, Rachel Brosnahan
  • Runtime: 112 min
  • Total gross to date: £339,020.00
  • Weekend gross: £339,020.00
  • Number of cinemas: 442
  • Site average: £767.00
  • Country of origin: UK
  • Distributor: Lionsgate
  • Change from last week: -
  • Weeks on release: 1
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.2/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 85%
  • Metacritic: 65/100
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9. Spirit Untamed

Lucky Prescott's life is changed forever when she moves from her home in the city to a small frontier town and befriends a wild mustang named Spirit.
  • Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
  • Director(s): Elaine Bogan, Ennio Torresan
  • Writer(s): Aury Wallington, Kristin Hahn, Katherine Nolfi
  • Actors(s): Isabela Merced, Marsai Martin, Mckenna Grace
  • Runtime: 88 min
  • Total gross to date: £2,233,356.00
  • Weekend gross: £240,152.00
  • Number of cinemas: 557
  • Site average: £431.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Universal
  • Change from last week: -50
  • Weeks on release: 3
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 5.5/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 48%
  • Metacritic: 49/100
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10. Black Widow

In Marvel Studios' action-packed spy thriller "Black Widow," Natasha Romanoff aka Black Widow confronts the darker parts of her ledger when a dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past arises. Pursued by a force that will stop at nothing to bring her down, Natasha must deal with her history as a spy and the broken relationships left in her wake long before she became an Avenger.
  • Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
  • Director(s): Cate Shortland
  • Writer(s): Eric Pearson, Jac Schaeffer, Ned Benson
  • Actors(s): Scarlett Johansson, Florence Pugh, David Harbour
  • Runtime: 134 min
  • Total gross to date: £18,160,777.00
  • Weekend gross: £226,482.00
  • Number of cinemas: 420
  • Site average: £539.00
  • Country of origin: UK/USA
  • Distributor: Disney
  • Change from last week: -58
  • Weeks on release: 6
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.7/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 79%
  • Metacritic: 68/100
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11. Stillwater

Defeated by unemployment and the ghosts of the past, Bill Baker, an unemployed oil-rig worker from Stillwater, Oklahoma, is on the ropes. However, convinced of his daughter's innocence, who has already served five long years of a nine-year prison sentence for the murder of her girlfriend, widowed Bill travels to the port city of Marseilles, France, to visit estranged Allison. Now, while confronted with an insurmountable language barrier, cross-cultural differences, and maddening legal complexity, Baker decides to take matters into his own hands to exonerate his only child after failing to get Allison's case re-opened. But, second chances are hard to come by. Can the sad-eyed father forge new bonds with his long-lost child, and in the process, let the truth shine?
  • Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
  • Director(s): Tom McCarthy
  • Writer(s): Tom McCarthy, Marcus Hinchey, Thomas Bidegain
  • Actors(s): Matt Damon, Camille Cottin, Abigail Breslin
  • Runtime: 139 min
  • Total gross to date: £956,102.00
  • Weekend gross: £167,103.00
  • Number of cinemas: 431
  • Site average: £388.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: eOne Films
  • Change from last week: -65
  • Weeks on release: 2
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.6/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 75%
  • Metacritic: 60/100
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12. Old

This summer, visionary filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan unveils a chilling, mysterious new thriller about a family on a tropical holiday who discover that the secluded beach where they are relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly - reducing their entire lives into a single day.
  • Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
  • Director(s): M. Night Shyamalan
  • Writer(s): M. Night Shyamalan, Pierre-Oscar Lévy, Frederik Peeters
  • Actors(s): Gael García Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Rufus Sewell
  • Runtime: 108 min
  • Total gross to date: £3,181,707.00
  • Weekend gross: £109,019.00
  • Number of cinemas: 251
  • Site average: £434.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Universal
  • Change from last week: -63
  • Weeks on release: 4
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 5.8/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 50%
  • Metacritic: 55/100
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13. The Forever Purge

All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end.
  • Genre: Action, Crime, Horror
  • Director(s): Everardo Gout
  • Writer(s): James DeMonaco
  • Actors(s): Ana de la Reguera, Tenoch Huerta, Josh Lucas
  • Runtime: 103 min
  • Total gross to date: £3,445,853.00
  • Weekend gross: £84,218.00
  • Number of cinemas: 218
  • Site average: £386.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Universal
  • Change from last week: -61
  • Weeks on release: 5
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 5.4/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 49%
  • Metacritic: 53/100
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14. Puaada

Puaada (Conflict/Quarrel) revolves around a lovable and exuberant man from Punjab, Jaggi (Ammy Virk) and the mesmerizing girl next door, Raunak (Sonam Bajwa). Jaggi is a farmer and supplies dairy to every family in his hometown. One such family is Raunak's whose father is an Air Force Officer. Jaggi and Raunak are in a relationship and decide to confess their love to their parents but Raunak's father disapproves of their relationship as he wanted a groom to be educated and be in the armed forces like him, and Jaggi's mom disapproves as she wants a simple village girl for her son. They families eventually agree to meet but the twist in the tale comes when Jaggi pulls away unexpectedly. This results in a Puaada (conflict/quarrel) between them and within the families, leading to hilarious situations. Puaada is a complete family romance comedy of errors, an entertainer where Jaggi and Raunak must rise above all to save their relationship and get out everyone including themselves out of this Puaada.
  • Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
  • Director(s): Rupinder Chahal, Sunil Dhawan
  • Writer(s): Anil Rodhan, Rupinder Chahal, Balwinder Singh Janjua
  • Actors(s): Ammy Virk, Sonam Bajwa, Hardeep Gill
  • Runtime: 130 min
  • Total gross to date: £83,978.00
  • Weekend gross: £83,978.00
  • Number of cinemas: 26
  • Site average: £3,230.00
  • Country of origin: Ind
  • Distributor: Zee Studios
  • Change from last week: -
  • Weeks on release: 1
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  • Internet Movie Database: 5.6/10
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15. Fast & Furious 9

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  • Total gross to date: £16,298,784.00
  • Weekend gross: £62,037.00
  • Number of cinemas: 170
  • Site average: £365.00
  • Country of origin: UK/USA
  • Distributor: Universal
  • Change from last week: -60
  • Weeks on release: 8
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