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The record breaker: Bridget Jones’s Baby

 

 

• "On Monday, Bridget Jones’s Baby overtook Bridget Jones’s Diary total of £42m to become the biggest film in the series and the UK’s biggest romcom of all time. Including Monday, Baby has grossed £42.24m, which puts it in sniffing distance of Finding Dory, currently the second biggest grossing film of the year, with £42.25m. (The Jungle Book is the top title, with £46.1m.) Bridget Jones’s Baby is happily coexisting with the female-skewing The Girl on the Train, and does not appear to be facing much competition in the next few weeks."

Spreading the wealth

• "For only the fifth time this year, six titles posted weekend grosses above £1m: The Girl on the Train, Inferno, Storks, Miss Saigon, Bridget Jones’s Baby and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. In fact, with Trolls, it’s seven films grossing £1m-plus. That’s the greatest spread of wealth since the first weekend of January 2015, when eight films managed box office above £1m."

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 I, Daniel Blake: the trailer for Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or-winner

• "The arrival of mid-level movies such as Inferno and Storks saw box office rise 2% on the previous frame, but takings were 16% down on the equivalent session from a year ago, when Hotel Transylvania 2, Suffragette and Pan all landed in cinemas. So ends a four-week run during which weekend box office was consistently up on last year. The exhibition sector now has its hoped pinned on Trolls and Paramount’s Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, starring Tom Cruise. There’s also horror sequel Ouija: Origin of Evil. Targeting less mainstream audiences are I, Daniel Blake and Mira Nair’s inspirational, Africa-set true story, The Queen of Katwe."