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Weekend box office report: 28 February - 1 March 2020

1. The Invisible Man

The film follows Cecilia, who receives the news of her abusive ex-boyfriend's suicide. She begins to re-build her life for the better. However, her sense of reality is put into question when she begins to suspect her deceased lover is not actually dead.
  • Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
  • Director(s): Leigh Whannell
  • Writer(s): Leigh Whannell, H.G. Wells
  • Actors(s): Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Harriet Dyer
  • Runtime: 124 min
  • Total gross to date: £2,163,798.00
  • Weekend gross: £2,163,798.00
  • Number of cinemas: 580
  • Site average: £3,731.00
  • Country of origin: USA/Aus
  • Distributor: Universal
  • Change from last week: -
  • Weeks on release: 1
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.1/10
  • Metacritic: 72/100
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2. 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: £17,215,552.00
  • Weekend gross: £1,937,939.00
  • Number of cinemas: 637
  • Site average: £3,042.00
  • Country of origin: USA/Jpn/Kor
  • Distributor: Paramount
  • Change from last week: -53
  • Weeks on release: 3
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.5/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 64%
  • Metacritic: 47/100
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3. 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: £10,361,508.00
  • Weekend gross: £1,047,024.00
  • Number of cinemas: 579
  • Site average: £1,808.00
  • Country of origin: Kor
  • Distributor: StudioCanal
  • Change from last week: -39
  • Weeks on release: 4
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 8.5/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 99%
  • Metacritic: 96/100
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4. Dark Waters

A corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company that exposes a lengthy history of pollution.
  • Genre: Biography, Drama, History
  • Director(s): Todd Haynes
  • Writer(s): Nathaniel Rich, Mario Correa, Matthew Michael Carnahan
  • Actors(s): Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins
  • Runtime: 126 min
  • Total gross to date: £860,942.00
  • Weekend gross: £860,942.00
  • Number of cinemas: 425
  • Site average: £2,026.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: eOne Films
  • Change from last week: -
  • Weeks on release: 1
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 7.6/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 89%
  • Metacritic: 73/100
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5. 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: £15,187,431.00
  • Weekend gross: £837,444.00
  • Number of cinemas: 616
  • Site average: £1,359.00
  • Country of origin: UK/USA
  • Distributor: Universal
  • Change from last week: -58
  • Weeks on release: 4
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 5.6/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 15%
  • Metacritic: 26/100
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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: £6,203,027.00
  • Weekend gross: £678,531.00
  • Number of cinemas: 634
  • Site average: £1,070.00
  • Country of origin: UK
  • Distributor: Universal
  • Change from last week: -41
  • Weeks on release: 3
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.6/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 89%
  • Metacritic: 66/100
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7. 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: £42,847,234.00
  • Weekend gross: £608,202.00
  • Number of cinemas: 529
  • Site average: £1,150.00
  • Country of origin: UK/USA
  • Distributor: eOne Films
  • Change from last week: -44
  • Weeks on release: 8
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 8.2/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 89%
  • Metacritic: 78/100
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8. The Call Of The Wild

The Call of the Wild is a vibrant story of Buck, a big and kindhearted dog, a crossbreed between a St. Bernard and a Scotch Collie, whose carefree life of leisure was suddenly upset when he was stolen from his home in Santa Clara County, California and deported up north, to be sold in Skagway, Alaska, and taken further north, to Dawson City, Yukon, during the late 1890s Klondike Gold Rush, when strong sled dogs were in high demand. As a newcomer to the dog team delivery service - and not before long their front-runner - Buck, a dog like no other, who had been spoiled, and who had suffered, but he could not be broken, is having the time of his life. Forced to fight to survive, eventually taken by his last owner, John Thornton, to proximity of the Arctic Circle, somewhere between Yukon and Alaska, he progressively depends on his primal instincts, sheds the comforts of civilization and responds to "the call of the wild", as master of his own.
  • Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
  • Director(s): Chris Sanders
  • Writer(s): Michael Green, Jack London, Egerton Ryerson Young
  • Actors(s): Harrison Ford, Omar Sy, Cara Gee
  • Runtime: 100 min
  • Total gross to date: £2,315,914.00
  • Weekend gross: £507,281.00
  • Number of cinemas: 500
  • Site average: £1,015.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Disney
  • Change from last week: -65
  • Weeks on release: 2
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.7/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 63%
  • Metacritic: 48/100
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9. Birds Of Prey: And The Fantabulous Emancipation Of One Harley Quinn

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  • Total gross to date: £8,386,648.00
  • Weekend gross: £358,436.00
  • Number of cinemas: 392
  • Site average: £914.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Warner Bros
  • Change from last week: -53
  • Weeks on release: 4
    Ratings:
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10. 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: £15,703,614.00
  • Weekend gross: £249,692.00
  • Number of cinemas: 273
  • Site average: £915.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Sony Pictures
  • Change from last week: -42
  • Weeks on release: 7
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 6.5/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 76%
  • Metacritic: 59/100
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11. Portrait Of A Lady On Fire

In 18th-century France young painter Marianne, is commissioned to do the wedding portrait of Héloïse without her knowing. Therefore, Marianne must observe her model by day to paint her portrait at night. Day by day, the two women become closer as they share Héloïse's last moments of freedom before the impending wedding.
  • Genre: Drama, Romance
  • Director(s): Céline Sciamma
  • Writer(s): Céline Sciamma
  • Actors(s): Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami
  • Runtime: 122 min
  • Total gross to date: £229,678.00
  • Weekend gross: £229,678.00
  • Number of cinemas: 51
  • Site average: £4,503.00
  • Country of origin: Fra
  • Distributor: Curzon
  • Change from last week: -
  • Weeks on release: 1
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 8.1/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 97%
  • Metacritic: 95/100
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12. Agrippina - Met Opera 2020 (Opera)

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  • Total gross to date: £216,109.00
  • Weekend gross: £216,109.00
  • Number of cinemas: 192
  • Site average: £1,126.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Trafalgar
  • Change from last week: -
  • Weeks on release: 1
    Ratings:
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13. Downhill

Barely escaping an avalanche during a family ski vacation in the Alps, a married couple is thrown into disarray as they are forced to reevaluate their lives and how they feel about each other. Inspired by the motion picture FORCE MAJEURE by Ruben Östlund.
  • Genre: Comedy, Drama
  • Director(s): Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
  • Writer(s): Jesse Armstrong, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
  • Actors(s): Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Will Ferrell, Zach Woods
  • Runtime: 86 min
  • Total gross to date: £188,720.00
  • Weekend gross: £188,720.00
  • Number of cinemas: 387
  • Site average: £488.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Disney
  • Change from last week: -
  • Weeks on release: 1
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 4.9/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 36%
  • Metacritic: 49/100
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14. Brahms: The Boy II

The story is about a family moves to a house in a countryside after a son (Jude) and mother (Liza) both traumatised from an unexpected burglary. Jude finds a dirty, dusty porcelain doll and calls it Brahms. Everything then change in a sinister way because of the doll.
  • Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
  • Director(s): William Brent Bell
  • Writer(s): Stacey Menear
  • Actors(s): Katie Holmes, Christopher Convery, Owain Yeoman
  • Runtime: 86 min
  • Total gross to date: £907,357.00
  • Weekend gross: £167,609.00
  • Number of cinemas: 304
  • Site average: £551.00
  • Country of origin: USA/Hkg
  • Distributor: Entertainment
  • Change from last week: -66
  • Weeks on release: 2
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 4.7/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes: 11%
  • Metacritic: 29/100
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15. Like A Boss

Two friends with very different ideals start a beauty company together. One is more practical while the other wants to earn her fortune and live a lavish lifestyle.
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Director(s): Miguel Arteta
  • Writer(s): Sam Pitman, Adam Cole-Kelly, Danielle Sanchez-Witzel
  • Actors(s): Tiffany Haddish, Rose Byrne, Salma Hayek
  • Runtime: 83 min
  • Total gross to date: £868,254.00
  • Weekend gross: £125,541.00
  • Number of cinemas: 337
  • Site average: £373.00
  • Country of origin: USA
  • Distributor: Paramount
  • Change from last week: -75
  • Weeks on release: 2
    Ratings:
  • Internet Movie Database: 4.7/10
  • Metacritic: 33/100
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