Weekend box office report: 16-18 October 2020

1. Tenet

In a twilight world of international espionage, an unnamed CIA operative, known as The Protagonist, is recruited by a mysterious organization called Tenet to participate in a global assignment that unfolds beyond real time. The mission: prevent Andrei Sator, a renegade Russian oligarch with precognition abilities, from starting World War III. The Protagonist will soon master the art of "time inversion" as a way of countering the threat that is to come.

Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director(s): Christopher Nolan
Writer(s): Christopher Nolan
Actors(s): John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki
Runtime: 150 min
Total gross to date: £16,877,908.00
Weekend gross: £187,275.00
Number of cinemas: 320
Site average: £585.00
Country of origin: UK/USA
Distributor: Warner Bros
Change from last week: -36
Weeks on release: 8

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 7.3/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 69%

Metacritic: 69/100

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2. Michael Ball & Alfie Boe - Back Together (Concert)

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Total gross to date: £175,778.00
Weekend gross: £175,778.00
Number of cinemas: 316
Site average: £556.00
Country of origin: UK
Distributor: CinemaLive
Change from last week: -
Weeks on release: 1

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3. Saint Maud

There, but for the grace of God, goes Maud, a reclusive young nurse whose impressionable demeanor causes her to pursue a pious path of Christian devotion after an obscure trauma. Now charged with the hospice care of Amanda, a retired dancer ravaged by cancer, Maud's fervent faith quickly inspires an obsessive conviction that she must save her ward's soul from eternal damnation - whatever the cost. Making her feature-film debut, writer/director Rose Glass cannily lures the audience into this disturbed psyche, steadily setting up her veritable diary of a country nurse for an unnerving and ultimately shocking trajectory. Morfydd Clark (also at the Festival in The Personal History of David Copperfield) portrays the sanctimonious Maud with an intense stoicism that belies a disquieting vulnerability, as Maud desperately vies for absolution and solidarity from her embittered patient (an enthralling Jennifer Ehle, also at the Festival in Beneath the Blue Suburban Skies). Glass tenderly captures this relationship with an empathetic gaze that first assumes an ethereal, dreamlike atmosphere - but it isn't long before Maud's dogmatic candor incites an irreconcilable friction that spirals her mind into a suffocating confluence of creeping doubt and paranoia. As Glass tightens the screws on her misguided martyr, well-placed nods are made to religious horror forerunners like William Friedkin's The Exorcist, further contributing to the film's increasingly dread-filled malaise. And when this insidious fever climatically breaks, the consequences are devastating and terrifying in equal measure.

Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Director(s): Rose Glass
Writer(s): Rose Glass
Actors(s): Morfydd Clark, Caoilfhionn Dunne, Jennifer Ehle
Runtime: 84 min
Total gross to date: £520,311.00
Weekend gross: £132,282.00
Number of cinemas: 355
Site average: £373.00
Country of origin: UK
Distributor: StudioCanal
Change from last week: -49
Weeks on release: 2

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 6.7/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 92%

Metacritic: 83/100

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4. After We Collided

Tessa has everything to lose. Hardin has nothing to lose. - except her. After We Collided - Life will never be the same. After a tumultuous beginning to their relationship, Tessa and Hardin were on the path to making things work. Tessa knew Hardin could be cruel, but when a bombshell revelation is dropped about the origins of their relationship - and Hardin's mysterious past - Tessa is beside herself. Hardin will always be - Hardin. But is he really the deep, thoughtful guy Tessa fell madly in love with despite his angry exterior - or has he been a stranger all along? She wishes she could walk away. It's just not that easy. Hardin knows he made a mistake, possibly the biggest one of his life. He's not going down without a fight. But can he change? Will he change - for love? Yes, yes he will.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): Roger Kumble
Writer(s): Anna Todd, Mario Celaya
Actors(s): Josephine Langford, Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Dylan Sprouse
Runtime: 105 min
Total gross to date: £3,759,883.00
Weekend gross: £107,472.00
Number of cinemas: 271
Site average: £397.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: Shear Entertainment
Change from last week: -44
Weeks on release: 7

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 5.0/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 13%

Metacritic: 14/100

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5. Cats & Dogs: Paws Unite!

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Total gross to date: £870,536.00
Weekend gross: £107,073.00
Number of cinemas: 343
Site average: £312.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: Warner Bros
Change from last week: -42
Weeks on release: 3

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6. On The Rocks

All it took was one long, passionate, late-night kiss on the lips to make novelist and mother-of-two Laura suspicious of her career-driven, high-reaching husband, Dean. Now, as the uncomfortable feelings of doubt and mistrust start creeping up on her, fanned by the horrible idea that the love of her life may be cheating on her, Laura reluctantly enlists the help of the impeccably dressed, semi-retired art dealer, Felix: her suave, mischievous, and effortlessly charming philanderer father. But, even though it is sometimes exhausting, we all want to be loved, and amid a persistent writer's block, Felix's innocent flirts with random women, Martini-fuelled lunches, and high-speed car chases in Manhattan's neon-lit streets, Laura needs to know. Is her life falling apart?

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Sofia Coppola
Writer(s): Sofia Coppola
Actors(s): Bill Murray, Rashida Jones, Marlon Wayans
Runtime: 96 min
Total gross to date: £326,030.00
Weekend gross: £45,446.00
Number of cinemas: 94
Site average: £483.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: A24/Trafalgar
Change from last week: -39
Weeks on release: 3

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 6.4/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 87%

Metacritic: 73/100

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7. Hocus Pocus (Re: 2020)

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Total gross to date: £78,353.00
Weekend gross: £42,135.00
Number of cinemas: 91
Site average: £463.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: Park Circus
Change from last week: 105
Weeks on release: 2

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8. I Am Greta

In August of 2018, Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old student in Sweden starts a school strike for the climate. Her question for adults: if you don't care about her future on earth, why should she care about her future in school? Within months, her strike evolves into a global movement. Greta, a quiet Northern-European girl on the autism spectrum is now a world famous activist. The team behind Greta has been following the young activist from her very first day of school striking.

Genre: Documentary, Biography
Director(s): Nathan Grossman
Writer(s): Hanna Lejonqvist, Per K. Kirkegaard, Olof Berglind
Actors(s): Greta Thunberg, Svante Thunberg, Niclas Svenningsen
Runtime: 97 min
Total gross to date: £29,687.00
Weekend gross: £29,687.00
Number of cinemas: 246
Site average: £121.00
Country of origin: Swe
Distributor: Dogwoof
Change from last week: -
Weeks on release: 1

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 7.5/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 79%

Metacritic: 69/100

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9. Onward

In a suburban fantasy world, two teenage elf brothers, Ian and Barley Lightfoot, go on a journey to discover if there is still a little magic left out there in order to spend one last day with their father, who died when they were too young to remember him. Like any good quest, their journey is filled with magic spells, cryptic maps, impossible obstacles and unimaginable discoveries. When the boys' fearless mom, Laurel, realizes that her sons are missing, she teams up with the legendary winged-lion-scorpion former warrior -- The Manticore -- and heads off to find them. Perilous curses aside, this one magical day could mean more than any of them ever dreamed.

Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Director(s): Dan Scanlon
Writer(s): Dan Scanlon, Keith Bunin, Jason Headley
Actors(s): Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Runtime: 102 min
Total gross to date: £7,552,055.00
Weekend gross: £26,643.00
Number of cinemas: 203
Site average: £131.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: Disney
Change from last week: -43
Weeks on release: 33

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 7.4/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 88%

Metacritic: 61/100

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10. Bill And Ted Face The Music

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Total gross to date: £1,233,154.00
Weekend gross: £26,489.00
Number of cinemas: 203
Site average: £130.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: Warner Bros
Change from last week: -43
Weeks on release: 5

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11. Kajillionaire

A woman's life is turned upside down when her criminal parents invite an outsider to join them on a major heist they're planning.

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Miranda July
Writer(s): Miranda July
Actors(s): Richard Jenkins, Debra Winger, Evan Rachel Wood
Runtime: 104 min
Total gross to date: £98,457.00
Weekend gross: £23,982.00
Number of cinemas: 168
Site average: £143.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: Universal
Change from last week: -45
Weeks on release: 2

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 6.4/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 90%

Metacritic: 78/100

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12. Unhinged

Academy Award winner Russell Crowe stars in Unhinged, a psychological thriller that takes something we've all experienced- road rage - to an unpredictable and terrifying conclusion. Rachel (Caren Pistorius) is running late getting to work when she crosses paths with a stranger (Crowe) at a traffic light. Soon, Rachel finds herself, and everyone she loves, the target of a man who feels invisible and is looking to make one last mark upon the world by teaching her a series of deadly lessons. What follows is a dangerous game of cat and mouse that proves you never know who you're driving next to.

Genre: Action, Thriller
Director(s): Derrick Borte
Writer(s): Carl Ellsworth
Actors(s): Russell Crowe, Caren Pistorius, Gabriel Bateman
Runtime: 90 min
Total gross to date: £1,956,451.00
Weekend gross: £23,823.00
Number of cinemas: 154
Site average: £155.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: Altitude
Change from last week: -23
Weeks on release: 12

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 6.0/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 48%

Metacritic: 40/100

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13. Akira (Re: 2020)

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Total gross to date: £252,124.00
Weekend gross: £23,760.00
Number of cinemas: 135
Site average: £176.00
Country of origin: Jpn
Distributor: National Amusements UK
Change from last week: -88
Weeks on release: 2

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14. The Elfkins

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Genre: Animation, Family
Director(s): Nicholas Acs
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Actors(s): Wendy Crewson
Runtime: 30 min
Total gross to date: £239,787.00
Weekend gross: £20,304.00
Number of cinemas: 240
Site average: £85.00
Country of origin: Ger
Distributor: Signature Entertainment
Change from last week: -61
Weeks on release: 3

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15. 100% Wolf

100% Wolf centers on Freddy Lupin, heir to a proud family line of werewolves. Positive he'll become the most fearsome werewolf ever, Freddy is in for a shock when his first "warfing" goes awry, turning him into a ferocious - poodle.

Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Director(s): Alexs Stadermann
Writer(s): Ranald Allan, David Breen, Fin Edquist
Actors(s): Loren Gray, Adriane Daff, Akmal Saleh
Runtime: 96 min
Total gross to date: £1,418,759.00
Weekend gross: £13,888.00
Number of cinemas: 154
Site average: £90.00
Country of origin: Aus
Distributor: Vertigo
Change from last week: -44
Weeks on release: 12

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 5.6/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 69%

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