Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: February 22-24, 2019
1. The Lego Movie 2 £2,410,824 (£14,014,439, 3 weeks)
2. Instant Family £1,672,863 (£6,393,826, 2 weeks)
3. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World £1,665,724 (£15,877,875, 4 weeks)
4. Alita: Battle Angel £870,704 (£7,721,031, 3 weeks)
5. The Kid Who Would Be King £651,610 (2,595,481, 2 weeks)
6. Cold Pursuit £631,467 (new release)
7. Green Book £473,562 (£6,178,872, 4 weeks)
8. On the Basis of Sex £458,914 (new release)
9. Total Dhamaal £250,601 (new release)
10. Bohemian Rhapsody £209,037 (£53,745,135, 18 weeks)
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Very little change at the top this week, with half term family flicks dominating and The Lego Movie 2 notching up its third week at the top. Even The Kid Who Would Be King, which underperformed during its opening weekend, managed to hold steady and actually climb a couple of places. The highest new entry was this week’s Liam Neeson vengeance thriller, Cold Pursuit, which couldn’t crack the top five. So has this one been adversely affected by that racism row? Well, the previous Liam Neeson action thriller, The Commuter, took nearly three times as much (£1.6m) over its opening weekend in January 2018. Before that, Run All Night opened on £800,000 in March 2015, while Taken 3 enjoyed a whopping £6.7m opening in January of that year – though this was part of a huge money-spinning franchise. So maybe there’s something in the suggestion that Neeson’s bizarre admission has damaged his career. Or maybe his fans don’t care to see him in a snow plow. Elsewhere, it’s too early for the Oscar ceremony to yield box office dividends, though Bohemian Rhapsody did sneak back into the chart during its 18th week on release.
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