Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: August 13-15 2021
1. Free Guy £2,477,891 (new release)
2. The Paw Patrol Movie £2,410,496 (new release)
3. The Suicide Squad £1,067,025 (£10,821,372, 3 weeks)
4. Jungle Cruise £847,031 (£8,476,137, 3 weeks)
5. Space Jam: A New Legacy £506,179 (£10,124,128, 5 weeks)
6. The Croods 2: A New Age £421,529 (£7,026,625, 5 weeks)
7. Don’t Breathe 2 £349,702 (new release)
8. The Courier £339,020 (new release)
9. Spirit Untamed £240,152 (£2,233,356, 3 weeks)
10. Black Widow £226,482 (£18,160,777, 6 weeks)
Chart copyright Comscore
Disney’s Free Guy topped the chart with a strong opening weekend, but The Paw Patrol Movie is snapping at Ryan Reynolds’ heels. The pre-schooler animation very nearly pulled off an upset by opening in first place. This despite a damning review in The Guardian, which accused the pups of “dismaying gender politics” and promulgating “authoritarian neoliberal propaganda in the guise of an upbeat cartoon about puppies.” Mind you, this was clearly a tongue-in-cheek attempt to bait splenetic anti-wokesters. Or at least one sincerely hopes that’s what it was.
Further down the chart, The Suicide Squad and Space Jam: A New Legacy have both passed the £10m mark in three and five weeks respectively. Indeed, half of this week’s top ten are family flicks, four of them animations. The remaining adult-oriented new releases The Courier and horror sequel Don’t Breathe 2 struggled to find an audience. Outside the top ten, Peter Rabbit 2 continues to crawl towards £20m and remains the most successful post-lockdown release.
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