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Weekend box office report: 17-19 January 2020

1. 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: £18,439,267.00
Weekend gross: £6,190,049.00
Number of cinemas: 714
Site average: £8,670.00
Country of origin: UK/USA
Distributor: eOne Films
Change from last week: -16
Weeks on release: 2

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 8.2/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 89%

Metacritic: 78/100

2. 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: £3,781,233.00
Weekend gross: £3,781,233.00
Number of cinemas: 535
Site average: £7,068.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: Sony Pictures
Change from last week: -
Weeks on release: 1

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 6.5/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 76%

Metacritic: 59/100

3. 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: £16,355,697.00
Weekend gross: £1,480,139.00
Number of cinemas: 673
Site average: £2,199.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: Sony Pictures
Change from last week: -26
Weeks on release: 4

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 7.8/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 95%

Metacritic: 91/100

4. 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: £7,895,247.00
Weekend gross: £1,092,084.00
Number of cinemas: 511
Site average: £2,137.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: Entertainment
Change from last week: -36
Weeks on release: 3

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 7.8/10

Metacritic: 51/100

5. 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: £32,471,541.00
Weekend gross: £1,064,594.00
Number of cinemas: 569
Site average: £1,871.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: Sony Pictures
Change from last week: -37
Weeks on release: 6

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 6.7/10

Metacritic: 58/100

6. Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker

N/A

Genre: N/A
Director(s): Steve Meyer
Writer(s): N/A
Actors(s): J.J. Abrams, John Boyega, Madlyn Burkert
Runtime: 126 min
Total gross to date: £56,482,187.00
Weekend gross: £901,078.00
Number of cinemas: 565
Site average: £1,595.00
Country of origin: UK/USA
Distributor: Disney
Change from last week: -50
Weeks on release: 5

Ratings:

7. Bombshell

When Gretchen Carlson slaps Fox News founder Roger Ailes with a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment, not a soul could predict what would happen next. Her decision leads to Fox News correspondent Megyn Kelly coming forward with her own story, as well as multiple other women, inciting a movement that reverberates around the world.

Genre: Biography, Drama
Director(s): Jay Roach
Writer(s): Charles Randolph
Actors(s): Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie
Runtime: 109 min
Total gross to date: £742,085.00
Weekend gross: £742,085.00
Number of cinemas: 484
Site average: £1,533.00
Country of origin: USA/Can
Distributor: Lionsgate
Change from last week: -
Weeks on release: 1

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 6.8/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 68%

Metacritic: 64/100

8. 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: £5,482,043.00
Weekend gross: £656,736.00
Number of cinemas: 499
Site average: £1,316.00
Country of origin: Nzl/USA/Cze
Distributor: Disney
Change from last week: -36
Weeks on release: 3

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 7.9/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 80%

Metacritic: 58/100

9. Just Mercy

A powerful and thought-provoking true-story, "Just Mercy" follows young lawyer Bryan Stevenson (Jordan) and his history-making battle for justice. After graduating from Harvard, Bryan might have had his pick of lucrative jobs. Instead, he heads to Alabama to defend those wrongly condemned, with the support of local advocate Eva Ansley (Larson.) One of his first, and most incendiary, cases is that of Walter McMillian (Foxx,) who, in 1987, was sentenced to die for the notorious murder of an 18-year-old girl, despite a preponderance of evidence proving his innocence and the fact that the only testimony against him came from a criminal with a motive to lie. In the years that follow, Bryan becomes embroiled in a labyrinth of legal and political maneuverings and overt and unabashed racism as he fights for Walter, and others like him, with the odds-and the system-stacked against them.

Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Destin Daniel Cretton
Writer(s): Destin Daniel Cretton, Andrew Lanham, Bryan Stevenson
Actors(s): Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx, Brie Larson
Runtime: 137 min
Total gross to date: £529,435.00
Weekend gross: £529,435.00
Number of cinemas: 376
Site average: £1,408.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: Warner Bros
Change from last week: -
Weeks on release: 1

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 7.6/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 85%

Metacritic: 68/100

10. Frozen 2

N/A

Genre: Short
Director(s): Neha Lohia
Writer(s): N/A
Actors(s): Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Parineeti Chopra
Runtime: N/A
Total gross to date: £51,908,104.00
Weekend gross: £514,468.00
Number of cinemas: 552
Site average: £932.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: Disney
Change from last week: -34
Weeks on release: 9

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 3.9/10

11. Spies In Disguise

Super spy Lance Sterling and scientist Walter Beckett are almost exact opposites. Lance is smooth, suave and debonair. Walter is not. But what Walter lacks in social skills he makes up for in smarts and invention, creating the awesome gadgets Lance uses on his epic missions. But when events take an unexpected turn, Walter and Lance suddenly have to rely on each other in a whole new way. And if this odd couple can't learn to work as a team, the whole world is in peril.

Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure
Director(s): Nick Bruno, Troy Quane
Writer(s): Lucas Martell, Cindy Davis, Brad Copeland
Actors(s): Rachel Brosnahan, Jarrett Bruno, Claire Crosby
Runtime: 102 min
Total gross to date: £5,792,914.00
Weekend gross: £508,680.00
Number of cinemas: 539
Site average: £944.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: Disney
Change from last week: -25
Weeks on release: 4

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 6.8/10

Metacritic: 54/100

12. Weathering With You

A high-school boy who has run away to Tokyo befriends a girl who appears to be able to manipulate the weather.

Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Director(s): Makoto Shinkai
Writer(s): Makoto Shinkai
Actors(s): Kotaro Daigo, Nana Mori, Tsubasa Honda
Runtime: 112 min
Total gross to date: £221,789.00
Weekend gross: £221,789.00
Number of cinemas: 57
Site average: £3,891.00
Country of origin: Jpn
Distributor: National Amusements UK
Change from last week: -
Weeks on release: 1

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 7.5/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 92%

Metacritic: 72/100

13. Cats

A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Director(s): Tom Hooper
Writer(s): Lee Hall, Tom Hooper, Andrew Lloyd Webber
Actors(s): James Corden, Judi Dench, Jason Derulo
Runtime: 110 min
Total gross to date: £11,628,119.00
Weekend gross: £148,771.00
Number of cinemas: 316
Site average: £471.00
Country of origin: UK/USA
Distributor: Universal
Change from last week: -66
Weeks on release: 5

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 2.8/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 19%

Metacritic: 32/100

14. Playing With Fire

A crew of rugged firefighters meet their match when attempting to rescue three rambunctious kids.

Genre: Comedy, Family
Director(s): Andy Fickman
Writer(s): Dan Ewen, Matt Lieberman
Actors(s): John Cena, Keegan-Michael Key, John Leguizamo
Runtime: 96 min
Total gross to date: £2,597,261.00
Weekend gross: £144,661.00
Number of cinemas: 354
Site average: £409.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: Paramount
Change from last week: -40
Weeks on release: 4

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 5.1/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 24%

Metacritic: 24/100

15. Knives Out

When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey (Christopher Plummer) is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's disfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death.

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Rian Johnson
Writer(s): Rian Johnson
Actors(s): Daniel Craig, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas
Runtime: 130 min
Total gross to date: £12,617,184.00
Weekend gross: £142,527.00
Number of cinemas: 193
Site average: £738.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: Lionsgate
Change from last week: -59
Weeks on release: 8

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 7.9/10

Metacritic: 82/100

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