Film / Box Office
Box Office Chart: January 19-21 2018
1. Coco £5,209,214 (new release)
2. Darkest Hour £3,295,717 (£10,155,287, 2 weeks)
3. The Post £2,152,977 (new release)
4. The Greatest Showman £2,103,605 (£16,865,309, 4 weeks)
5. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle £1,840,248 (£32,478,009, 5 weeks)
6. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri £1,621,878 (£5,232,135, 2 weeks)
7. The Commuter £1,602,740 (new release)
8. Insidious: The Last Key £1,025,740 (£3,663,623, 2 weeks)
9. Star Wars: The Last Jedi £861,320 (£81,447,605, 6 weeks)
10. Pitch Perfect 3 £374,386 (£14,883,218, 5 weeks)
Chart copyright comScore
Coco‘s £5.2m opening weekend is a pretty middling result by Pixar standards, which is perhaps appropriate given that it’s a fairly middling Pixar animation. Next week, of course, it goes head-to-head with Nick Park’s Early Man. Joe Wright’s Darkest Hour slipped to second place, but succeeded in holding off the high-powered challenge from Spielberg’s The Post. The Churchill drama also sailed past the £10m mark, putting it on twice the earnings of awards season rival Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. After six weeks on release, Star Wars: The Last Jedi has finally usurped Titanic to muscle in to the UK all-time box office top five (behind Avatar, Spectre, Skyfall and Star Wars: The Force Awakens, since you ask). Despite all the awards season hype, it’s notable that two of the biggest earners in the chart have been hanging around since Christmas in defiance of decidedly mixed reviews: The Greatest Showman and Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (which just passed £30m). Interesting too that this year’s Liam Neeson action movie The Commuter‘s opening weekend was much the same as the opening weekend of most previous Liam Neeson action movies. D’ya reckon exactly the same people trot out to watch our Liam looking grim and determined and hitting people each time he puts out a film?
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