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By Ben Dalton 2019-09-16T12:27:00+01:00

Today’s GBP to USD conversion rate: 1.24

UK period drama Downton Abbey opened with £5.1m for a strong start at top spot. The film played in 730 locations, averaging £7,087 – comfortably the highest of the weekend. 

It is writer Julian Fellowes’ biggest UK opening by some distance, and should soon catch his highest total gross of £12.3m for 2002’s Gosford Park.

Fast & Furious: Hobbs & Shaw has passed the £20m mark, adding £191,884 at the weekend for £20.1m after seven weekends.

Good Boys put on £73,813 for £3.1m after five; while a pair of Universal titles are reaching the end of their runs – The Secret Life Of Pets 2 with £19,437 and £19.5m total, and Yesterday, with £11,669 and £13.7m.

It: Chapter Two dropped a substantial 54% on its second weekend, taking £3.2m for second place. It has £13.6m to date.

This is down in all regards on 2017’s It, which took £6.1m (a 39% drop) on its second weekend for £21.2m.

The Informer added £12,000 for £693,000 after three weekends.

STX scored its best-ever three-day opening in the UK with a £1.35m start for Hustlers.

Lorene Scafaria’s crime comedy starring Jennifer Lopez played in 477 sites for an excellent £2,827 location average. This result follows a strong start in North America, where it started with $33.2m (£26.7m) for second place in the US chart too.

Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood added £547,000 on its fifth weekend, a 50% fall, for £19.8m total. It is now the seventh highest-grossing 18-rated film of all time in the UK, with the chance of hitting as high as second (2017’s Fifty Shades Darker with £22.7m) depending on the length of its tail.

The Angry Birds Movie 2 added £100,000 for £5m to date and will finish short of the 2016 first film’s £10.7m.

Spider-Man: Far From Home put on £69,000 for £37.1m, and is now the UK’s sixth highest-grossing title of 2019, just behind Aladdin.

The Lion King held a top-five spot for the ninth consecutive week, falling 37% with £440,000 and £73.8m to date.

Toy Story 4 added £270,000 for £64.9m, while Aladdin increased £48,000 for £37m.

Angel Has Fallen fell 45% with £381,030. It has £6.7m after four weeks, taking it past the £6.2m of 2013’s Olympus Has Fallen, but too far behind the £11m of 2016’s London Has Fallen.

Dora And The Lost City Of Gold dropped 30% for £276,000 and £5.1m after five weekends. Crawl is nearing the end of its run, with £17,000 taking it to £1.4m.

Pedro Almodóvar’s Cannes 2019 entry Pain And Glory added £61,965 on its fourth weekend for £1.3m total, a strong result for a film not in the English language.

Bollywood drama Chhichhore added £38,511 for £191,648 after two weekends.

Mrs Lowry And Son added £42,644 on its third session and has £840,939 so far.

Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans topped up £40,843 and has £2.8m after eight weekends.

Polish drama Polityka added £39,545 for a total gross to date of £588,429.

Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark went up £36,601 and has £2.2m, while Gurinder Chadha’s Blinded By The Light added £18,755 for £3m.

The Souvenir added £34,904 on its third weekend – a 64% drop – for £386,873. It is now Joanna Hogg’s highest-grossing title in the UK, passing the £306,656 of 2010’s Archipelago.

Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts’ Syrian war documentary For Sama, which debuted at SXSW before playing in the Cannes official selection this year, started with £23,727 from just 27 screens.

This is a strong result for a limited release; its £1,031 average made it one of only two titles outside the top five to break a £1,000 location average. With previews, the film has £39,002.

A re-release of John Schlesinger’s 1969 Oscar-winner Midnight Cowboy starring Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman brought in £9,048 from four sites.

Mark Jenkin’s Berlin 2019 title Bait added £26,760 from 28 sites for £215,014 to date.

French synth drama The Shock Of The Future opened to £1,976 from 10 screens.

Sky said it is the first time a major UK broadcaster has comissioned a project of this scale from a person with Down Syndrome.

Festival favourites ‘Fire Of Love’, ‘Hit The Road’ also out.

Kamil Krawczycki’s debut feature world premiered this week at New Horizons International Film Festival.

Upcoming Apple docuseries to feature pioneers Gloria Steinem, Megan Thee Stallion, Jane Goodall, Amy Schumer.

Festival to close with Pjer Zalica’s ‘May Labor Day’.

Smith has opened up about the incident in an emotional video posted on YouTube

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