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Weekend box office report: 14-16 February 2020

1. Sonic The Hedgehog

Based on the global blockbuster videogame franchise from Sega, SONIC THE HEDGEHOG tells the story of the world's speediest hedgehog as he embraces his new home on Earth. In this live-action adventure comedy, Sonic and his new best friend Tom (James Marsden) team up to defend the planet from the evil genius Dr. Robotnik (Jim Carrey) and his plans for world domination. The family-friendly film also stars Tika Sumpter and Ben Schwartz as the voice of Sonic.
  • Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
  • Director(s): Jeff Fowler
  • Writer(s): Pat Casey, Josh Miller
  • Actors(s): Ben Schwartz, James Marsden, Jim Carrey
  • Runtime: 99 min
  • Total gross to date: £4,733,768.00
  • Weekend gross: £4,733,768.00
  • Number of cinemas: 619
  • Site average: £7,647.00
  • Country of origin: USA/Jpn/Kor
  • Distributor: Paramount
  • Change from last week: -
  • Weeks on release: 1
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.5/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 64%
  • Metacritic: 47/100
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2. Parasite

The Kims - mother and father Chung-sook and Ki-taek, and their young adult offspring, son Ki-woo and daughter Ki-jung - are a poor family living in a shabby and cramped half basement apartment in a busy lower working class commercial district of Seoul. Without even knowing it, they, especially Mr. and Mrs. Kim, literally smell of poverty. Often as a collective, they perpetrate minor scams to get by, and even when they have jobs, they do the minimum work required. Ki-woo is the one who has dreams of getting out of poverty by one day going to university. Despite not having that university education, Ki-woo is chosen by his university student friend Min, who is leaving to go to school, to take over his tutoring job to Park Da-hye, who Min plans to date once he returns to Seoul and she herself is in university. The Parks are a wealthy family who for four years have lived in their modernistic house designed by and the former residence of famed architect Namgoong. While Mr. and Mrs. Park are all about status, Mrs. Park has a flighty, simpleminded mentality and temperament, which Min tells Ki-woo to feel comfortable in lying to her about his education to get the job. In getting the job, Ki-woo further learns that Mrs. Park is looking for an art therapist for the Parks' adolescent son, Da-song, Ki-woo quickly recommending his professional art therapist friend "Jessica", really Ki-jung who he knows can pull off the scam in being the easiest liar of the four Kims. In Ki-woo also falling for Da-hye, he begins to envision himself in that house, and thus the Kims as a collective start a plan for all the Kims, like Ki-jung using assumed names, to replace existing servants in the Parks' employ in orchestrating reasons for them to be fired. The most difficult to get rid of may be Moon-gwang, the Parks' housekeeper who literally came with the house - she Namgoong's housekeeper when he lived there - and thus knows all the little nooks and crannies of it better than the Parks themselves. The question then becomes how far the Kims can take this scam in their quest to become their version of the Parks.
  • Genre: Drama, Thriller
  • Director(s): Bong Joon Ho
  • Writer(s): Bong Joon Ho, Han Jin-won
  • Actors(s): Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong
  • Runtime: 132 min
  • Total gross to date: £5,092,732.00
  • Weekend gross: £2,523,518.00
  • Number of cinemas: 428
  • Site average: £5,896.00
  • Country of origin: Kor
  • Distributor: StudioCanal
  • Change from last week: 80
  • Weeks on release: 2
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 8.5/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 99%
  • Metacritic: 96/100
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3. Dolittle

After his wife's death, Dr. John Dolittle (Robert Downey, Jr.) decided to hide from the world with his beloved animals. But he has to take a journey to a mysterious island to find a healing tree, which is the only medicine that can help the dying Queen Victoria (Jessie Buckley) in Buckingham Palace.
  • Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
  • Director(s): Stephen Gaghan
  • Writer(s): Stephen Gaghan, Dan Gregor, Doug Mand
  • Actors(s): Robert Downey Jr., Antonio Banderas, Michael Sheen
  • Runtime: 101 min
  • Total gross to date: £8,197,463.00
  • Weekend gross: £2,135,951.00
  • Number of cinemas: 678
  • Site average: £3,150.00
  • Country of origin: UK/USA
  • Distributor: Universal
  • Change from last week: -58
  • Weeks on release: 2
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 5.6/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 15%
  • Metacritic: 26/100
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4. 1917

April 1917, the Western Front. Two British soldiers are sent to deliver an urgent message to an isolated regiment. If the message is not received in time the regiment will walk into a trap and be massacred. To get to the regiment they will need to cross through enemy territory. Time is of the essence and the journey will be fraught with danger.
  • Genre: Action, Drama, War
  • Director(s): Sam Mendes
  • Writer(s): Sam Mendes, Krysty Wilson-Cairns
  • Actors(s): Dean-Charles Chapman, George MacKay, Daniel Mays
  • Runtime: 119 min
  • Total gross to date: £39,229,416.00
  • Weekend gross: £1,950,909.00
  • Number of cinemas: 635
  • Site average: £3,072.00
  • Country of origin: UK/USA
  • Distributor: eOne Films
  • Change from last week: -14
  • Weeks on release: 6
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 8.2/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 89%
  • Metacritic: 78/100
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5. Birds Of Prey: And The Fantabulous Emancipation Of One Harley Quinn

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  • Total gross to date: £5,820,839.00
  • Weekend gross: £1,773,024.00
  • Number of cinemas: 621
  • Site average: £2,855.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Warner Bros
  • Change from last week: -35
  • Weeks on release: 2
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6. Emma

Emma Woodhouse is a congenial young lady who delights in meddling in other people's affairs. She is perpetually trying to unite men and women who are utterly wrong for each other. Despite her interest in romance, Emma is clueless about her own feelings, and her relationship with gentle Mr. Knightly.
  • Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
  • Director(s): Douglas McGrath
  • Writer(s): Jane Austen, Douglas McGrath
  • Actors(s): Gwyneth Paltrow, James Cosmo, Greta Scacchi
  • Runtime: 120 min
  • Total gross to date: £1,635,797.00
  • Weekend gross: £1,635,797.00
  • Number of cinemas: 611
  • Site average: £2,677.00
  • Country of origin: UK
  • Distributor: Universal
  • Change from last week: -
  • Weeks on release: 1
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.6/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 89%
  • Metacritic: 66/100
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7. Bad Boys For Life

Marcus and Mike have to confront new issues (career changes and midlife crises), as they join the newly created elite team AMMO of the Miami police department to take down the ruthless Armando Armas, the vicious leader of a Miami drug cartel.
  • Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
  • Director(s): Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah
  • Writer(s): Peter Craig, Joe Carnahan, Chris Bremner
  • Actors(s): Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens
  • Runtime: 124 min
  • Total gross to date: £14,371,453.00
  • Weekend gross: £842,039.00
  • Number of cinemas: 438
  • Site average: £1,922.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Sony Pictures
  • Change from last week: -15
  • Weeks on release: 5
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.5/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 76%
  • Metacritic: 59/100
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8. 365 Dni

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  • Total gross to date: £378,790.00
  • Weekend gross: £378,790.00
  • Number of cinemas: 262
  • Site average: £1,446.00
  • Country of origin: Pol
  • Distributor: Phoenix
  • Change from last week: -
  • Weeks on release: 1
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9. Jumanji: The Next Level

The gang is back but the game has changed. As they return to Jumanji to rescue one of their own, they discover that nothing is as they expect. The players will have to brave parts unknown and unexplored, from the arid deserts to the snowy mountains, in order to escape the world's most dangerous game.
  • Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
  • Director(s): Jake Kasdan
  • Writer(s): Jake Kasdan, Jeff Pinkner, Scott Rosenberg
  • Actors(s): Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart
  • Runtime: 123 min
  • Total gross to date: £35,236,372.00
  • Weekend gross: £326,564.00
  • Number of cinemas: 414
  • Site average: £789.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Sony Pictures
  • Change from last week: -16
  • Weeks on release: 10
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.7/10
  • Metacritic: 58/100
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10. The Gentlemen

A talented American graduate of Oxford, using his unique skills, and audacity, creates a marijuana empire using the estates of impoverished British aristocrats. However, when he tries to sell his empire to a fellow American billionaire, a chain of events unfolds, involving blackmail, deception, mayhem and murder between street thugs, Russian oligarchs, Triad gangsters and gutter journalists.
  • Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
  • Director(s): Guy Ritchie
  • Writer(s): Guy Ritchie, Ivan Atkinson, Marn Davies
  • Actors(s): Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Michelle Dockery
  • Runtime: 113 min
  • Total gross to date: £11,536,705.00
  • Weekend gross: £238,781.00
  • Number of cinemas: 231
  • Site average: £1,034.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Entertainment
  • Change from last week: -32
  • Weeks on release: 7
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.8/10
  • Metacritic: 51/100
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11. The Personal History Of David Copperfield

A fresh and distinctive take on Charles Dickens' semi-autobiographical masterpiece, The Personal History of David Copperfield, set in the 1840s, chronicles the life of its iconic title character as he navigates a chaotic world to find his elusive place within it. From his unhappy childhood to the discovery of his gift as a storyteller and writer, David's journey is by turns hilarious and tragic, but always full of life, color and humanity.
  • Genre: Comedy, Drama
  • Director(s): Armando Iannucci
  • Writer(s): Armando Iannucci, Simon Blackwell, Charles Dickens
  • Actors(s): Dev Patel, Hugh Laurie, Tilda Swinton
  • Runtime: 119 min
  • Total gross to date: £5,728,246.00
  • Weekend gross: £236,502.00
  • Number of cinemas: 301
  • Site average: £786.00
  • Country of origin: UK/USA
  • Distributor: Lionsgate
  • Change from last week: -55
  • Weeks on release: 4
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.4/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 92%
  • Metacritic: 77/100
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12. Jojo Rabbit

A World War II satire that follows a lonely German boy named Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis) whose world view is turned upside down when he discovers his single mother (Scarlett Johansson) is hiding a young Jewish girl (Thomasin McKenzie) in their attic. Aided only by his idiotic imaginary friend, Adolf Hitler (Taika Waititi), Jojo must confront his blind nationalism.
  • Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
  • Director(s): Taika Waititi
  • Writer(s): Christine Leunens, Taika Waititi
  • Actors(s): Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie, Scarlett Johansson
  • Runtime: 108 min
  • Total gross to date: £7,541,315.00
  • Weekend gross: £155,753.00
  • Number of cinemas: 167
  • Site average: £933.00
  • Country of origin: Nzl/USA/Cze
  • Distributor: Disney
  • Change from last week: -27
  • Weeks on release: 7
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.9/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 80%
  • Metacritic: 58/100
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13. Little Women

In the years after the Civil War, Jo March (Saoirse Ronan) lives in New York City and makes her living as a writer, while her sister Amy March (Florence Pugh) studies painting in Paris. Amy has a chance encounter with Theodore "Laurie" Laurence (Timothée Chalamet), a childhood crush who proposed to Jo, but was ultimately rejected. Their oldest sibling, Meg March (Emma Watson), is married to a schoolteacher, while shy sister Beth (Eliza Scanlen) develops a devastating illness that brings the family back together.
  • Genre: Drama, Romance
  • Director(s): Greta Gerwig
  • Writer(s): Greta Gerwig, Louisa May Alcott
  • Actors(s): Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh
  • Runtime: 135 min
  • Total gross to date: £21,283,939.00
  • Weekend gross: £155,706.00
  • Number of cinemas: 245
  • Site average: £636.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Sony Pictures
  • Change from last week: -49
  • Weeks on release: 8
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.8/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 95%
  • Metacritic: 91/100
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14. Frozen 2

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  • Genre: Short
  • Director(s): Neha Lohia
  • Writer(s): N/A
  • Actors(s): Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Parineeti Chopra
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  • Total gross to date: £53,088,714.00
  • Weekend gross: £148,856.00
  • Number of cinemas: 361
  • Site average: £412.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Disney
  • Change from last week: -29
  • Weeks on release: 13
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 3.9/10
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15. Paw Patrol: Ready, Race, Rescue

The pups have built an awesome race track and are ready to be the pit crew for their race hero. But when the legendary racer is unable to drive, he calls on his biggest fan-pup Marshall to take the wheel and race in his place.
  • Genre: Animation, Family
  • Director(s): Charles E. Bastien, Keith Chapman
  • Writer(s): Steven Sullivan
  • Actors(s): Julius Cho, Anya Cooke, Cal Dodd
  • Runtime: 66 min
  • Total gross to date: £1,377,656.00
  • Weekend gross: £144,262.00
  • Number of cinemas: 438
  • Site average: £329.00
  • Country of origin: Can
  • Distributor: Paramount
  • Change from last week: -34
  • Weeks on release: 4
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 4.6/10
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