Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Fast & Furious 5: Rio Heist revs up the UK box office

UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 22nd to Sunday 24th April 2011...

Fast & Furious 5 Rio HeistDirector Justin Lin and stars Vin Diesel and Paul Walker prove that there's plenty of life left in The Fast and The Furious franchise as the fifth installment, Fast & Furious 5: Rio Heist (or Fast Five to those outside the UK), jumps straight in at the top of the box office with an impressive £5.3m including one day of preview screenings. Meanwhile, could it be that British audiences are finally tiring of Russell Brand? His new movie, the comedy remake Arthur, opens in with a less-than-stellar £764k and has to settle for third place behind the CGI adventure Rio, while Easter adventure Hop falls out of the top half of the chart and finishes in sixth with £466k.

Elsewhere and after a decent opening pushed it to first place last weekend, Wes Craven's slasher sequel Scream 4 begins to slide down the chart and takes fourth while new release Beastly rounds out the top five with a debut haul of £553k. Also on the decline are Red Riding Hood and Limitless, both falling three to sixth and tenth respectively, with Duncan Jones' Source Code slipping two spots to eighth. Finally documentary TT3D: Closer to the Edge opens in ninth place, pulling in £312k to give it the second-highest screen average of the weekend behind Fast & Furious.

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Pos.FilmWeekend GrossWeekTotal UK Gross
1Fast & Furious 5: Rio Heist

£5,332,0961£5,332,096
2Rio
£886,6693

£8,017,662
3Arthur
£764,4681 £764,468
4Scream 4£730,9632 £4,046,069
5Beastly£553,0691£553,069
6Hop£466,6764 £5,940,142
7Red Riding Hood£345,4212 £1,901,603
8Source Code£331,9884 £5,276,549
9TT3D: Closer to the Edge
£312,9981 £312,998
10Limitless
£282,8795 £7,685,395

Incoming...

Marvel Studios release the first superhero film of 2011 this coming Friday as Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman and Anthony Hopkins star in Thor (cert. 12A), which will surely take the box office crown against comedy Cedar Rapids (cert. 15), supernatural chiller Insidious (cert. 15) and Korean thriller I Saw The Devil (cert. 18).

U.K. Box Office Archive

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