Weekend box office report: 30 October-1 November 2020

1. Two By Two: Overboard!

Noah's ark drifts on the open seas, with best friends Finny and Leah on board. But, after weeks with no land in sight, food stocks are running low. The fragile peace between carnivores and herbivores could break any second. After a series of unfortunate events, the kids find themselves inadvertently washed overboard - along with the last of the food supplies. Leah and fellow castaway, their new friend Jelly, are marooned on a remote island. While Finny wakes in a strange colony filled with oddly familiar creatures living in harmony - under the threat of a menacing volcano. In a race against time, tide and terrifying tremors, Finny must rescue his friends, reunite with his family and save a whole colony from total destruction.

Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy
Director(s): Toby Genkel, Sean McCormack
Writer(s): Richie Conroy, Mark Hodkinson
Actors(s): Max Carolan, Ava Connolly, Dermot Magennis
Runtime: 85 min
Total gross to date: £955,370.00
Weekend gross: £190,761.00
Number of cinemas: 332
Site average: £575.00
Country of origin: Ire/Ger/Lux
Distributor: eOne Films
Change from last week: -42
Weeks on release: 2

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 5.8/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 20%

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2. Hocus Pocus (Re: 2020)

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Total gross to date: £446,287.00
Weekend gross: £186,063.00
Number of cinemas: 288
Site average: £646.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: Park Circus
Change from last week: 247
Weeks on release: 4

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3. Honest Thief

They call him the In-and-Out-Bandit because meticulous thief Tom Carter (Liam Neeson) has stolen $9 million from small-town banks while managing to keep his identity a secret. But after he falls in love with the bubbly Annie (Kate Walsh), Tom decides to make a fresh start by coming clean about his criminal past, only to be double-crossed by two ruthless FBI agents.

Genre: Action, Thriller
Director(s): Mark Williams
Writer(s): Steve Allrich, Mark Williams
Actors(s): Liam Neeson, Kate Walsh, Jai Courtney
Runtime: 99 min
Total gross to date: £573,598.00
Weekend gross: £152,555.00
Number of cinemas: 296
Site average: £515.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: Signature Entertainment
Change from last week: -40
Weeks on release: 2

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 6.0/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 40%

Metacritic: 46/100

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4. The Secret Garden

Living in India, Mary Lennox (Kate Maberly), a young, privileged girl, is left orphaned when her parents are killed in an earthquake. She is sent back to England where she goes to live on her Uncle Lord Archibald Craven's (John Lynch's) estate. It is a fairly isolated existence and she has to find things to keep herself occupied. She finds sickly young Colin Craven (Heydon Prowse), and a secret garden.

Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Director(s): Agnieszka Holland
Writer(s): Frances Hodgson Burnett, Caroline Thompson
Actors(s): Kate Maberly, Maggie Smith, Heydon Prowse
Runtime: 101 min
Total gross to date: £615,981.00
Weekend gross: £142,101.00
Number of cinemas: 180
Site average: £789.00
Country of origin: UK/Fra
Distributor: Sky Cinema
Change from last week: -8
Weeks on release: 2

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 7.3/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 88%

Metacritic: 74/100

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5. Blumhouse’s The Craft: Legacy

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Total gross to date: £119,680.00
Weekend gross: £119,680.00
Number of cinemas: 295
Site average: £406.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: Sony Pictures
Change from last week: -
Weeks on release: 1

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6. 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: £17,361,041.00
Weekend gross: £98,794.00
Number of cinemas: 242
Site average: £408.00
Country of origin: UK/USA
Distributor: Warner Bros
Change from last week: -26
Weeks on release: 10

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 7.3/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 69%

Metacritic: 69/100

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7. Cats & Dogs: Paws Unite!

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Total gross to date: £1,360,312.00
Weekend gross: £86,600.00
Number of cinemas: 288
Site average: £301.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: Warner Bros
Change from last week: -5
Weeks on release: 5

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8. Halloween (Re: 2020)

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Total gross to date: £71,264.00
Weekend gross: £71,264.00
Number of cinemas: 283
Site average: £252.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: Spotlight Entertainment/Cinelife
Change from last week: -
Weeks on release: 1

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9. 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: £806,822.00
Weekend gross: £61,408.00
Number of cinemas: 265
Site average: £232.00
Country of origin: UK
Distributor: StudioCanal
Change from last week: -17
Weeks on release: 4

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 6.7/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 92%

Metacritic: 83/100

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10. Pixie

To avenge her mother's death, Pixie masterminds a heist but must flee across Ireland from gangsters, take on the patriarchy, and choose her own destiny.

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Director(s): Barnaby Thompson
Writer(s): Preston Thompson
Actors(s): Olivia Cooke, Fra Fee, Rory Fleck Byrne
Runtime: 93 min
Total gross to date: £286,912.00
Weekend gross: £60,049.00
Number of cinemas: 305
Site average: £197.00
Country of origin: UK
Distributor: Paramount
Change from last week: -48
Weeks on release: 2

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 5.9/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 76%

Metacritic: 45/100

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11. Shirley

As renowned for her morose nature as she is for her horror fiction, writer Shirley Jackson (Elizabeth Moss) is crafting yet another masterpiece when the arrival of newlyweds Fred and Rose disrupt her creative process and marriage to literary critic - and philandering professor - Stanley Hyman (Michael Stuhlbarg). As Stanley spars to maintain academic dominance over his would-be protégé Fred, Rose attempts to dampen her own ambitions and adjust to married life while living under the roof of their fiery intellectual hosts with quicksilver loyalties and myriad neuroses. When the motives of Shirley's literary muse prove elusive, Rose's curiosity and trusting nature make her tender prey for a brilliant author whose only allegiance is to her work.

Genre: Biography, Drama, Horror
Director(s): Josephine Decker
Writer(s): Sarah Gubbins, Susan Scarf Merrell
Actors(s): Elisabeth Moss, Odessa Young, Michael Stuhlbarg
Runtime: 107 min
Total gross to date: £48,770.00
Weekend gross: £48,770.00
Number of cinemas: 50
Site average: £975.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: Curzon
Change from last week: -
Weeks on release: 1

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 6.1/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 87%

Metacritic: 76/100

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12. Uncle Vanya (Theatre)

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Total gross to date: £128,114.00
Weekend gross: £45,826.00
Number of cinemas: 187
Site average: £245.00
Country of origin: UK
Distributor: More2Screen
Change from last week: -
Weeks on release: 2

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13. The Nightmare Before Christmas (Re: 2016)

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Total gross to date: £294,022.00
Weekend gross: £43,172.00
Number of cinemas: 124
Site average: £348.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: Park Circus
Change from last week: -
Weeks on release: 205

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14. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Re: 2011)

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Total gross to date: £529,244.00
Weekend gross: £39,979.00
Number of cinemas: 122
Site average: £328.00
Country of origin: UK/USA
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Change from last week: 1015
Weeks on release: 471

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15. 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: £3,967,629.00
Weekend gross: £36,727.00
Number of cinemas: 170
Site average: £216.00
Country of origin: USA
Distributor: Shear Entertainment
Change from last week: -11
Weeks on release: 9

Ratings:

Internet Movie Database: 5.0/10

Rotten Tomatoes: 13%

Metacritic: 14/100

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