Having had the highest opening weekend of the year to date last weekend, Iron Man (Paramount) has continued to attract an audience, remaining at the top of the chart for a second week with £10.2m to date (including previews). Opening in 2nd place however is the rom-com What Happens In Vegas (20th Century Fox) which sees Joy (Cameron Diaz) and Jack (Ashton Kutcher) getting up to all sorts in sin city. Wanting to forget their worries, Joy and Jack go to Vegas, when after a drunken night , they wake up to discover they got married. But when Jack wins $3m on a fruit machine, with Joy's quarter, they find that they need to stick together to keep the money, however they discover they may have hit the jackpot in more ways than one!!
Racing into the 4th spot this weekend is the multi-coloured, all-action, high octane Speed Racer (Warner Bros.), bo! ught to us by the makers of The Matrix Trilogy. Opening with £362k, Speed Racer stars Emile Hirsch as the aforementioned Speed Racer - an aspiring young race driver who thinks of nothing but racing cars, especially after his older brother Rex is killed in a car crash. With the help of his Mom (Susan Sarandon) and Pop (John Goodman), as well as his girlfriend Trixie (Christina Ricci), Speed realises his dream by racing in The Crucible race against his long-time rival Racer-X (Matthew Fox). Vroom vroom!
Director Neil Marshall made his return this weekend with Doomsday (Universal), taking £312k and opening in 6th place. Set in a futuristic United Kingdom, a lethal plague has swept Scotland and with its inhabitants presumed dead, it has been quarantined off to prevent the disease spreading further. When the disease starts to emerge in England however, a team led by Eden (Rhona Mitra) is sent to see! k out Dr Kane (Malcolm MacDowell) who may have a cure. What Eden and her team encounter however are violent, cannibalistic inhabitants and their plan for a cure has to take some unexpected turns along the way.
Opening just outside the top 10 in 11th place, with £65k, is the Bollywood film Bhoothnath (Eros), which is a story about a mischievous seven year old boy and his deceased, yet stubborn and hot tempered grandfather.
The last new entry is Morgan 'Let's see how many Big Mac's I can eat before I am seriously ill' Spurlock's Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden? (Optimum), which opened in 14th place with £27k and is a documentary which sees Spurlock travelling around the Middle East, in search of the world's most wanted man. I personally saw him in Tesco the other day!
Official Box Office Figures 9th-11th May 2008
UK TOP 10 Box Office (9th-11th May 08)
Iron Man £1,976,721
What Happens In Vegas £1,263,093
Forgetting Sarah Marshall £524,326
Speed Racer £362,102
Nim's Island £317,505
Doomsday £311,383
Made of Honour £278,661
In Bruges £103,252
21 £89,656
The Eye £88,979
Source: Nielsen EDI US TOP 10 Box Office (9th-11th May 08)
Iron Man $51,190,629
What Happens In Vegas $20,172,474
Speed Racer $18,561,337
Made of Honour $8,116,323
Baby Mama $6,225,790
Forgetting Sarah Marshall $3,837,240
Harold & Kumar: Escape From .... $3,106,424
Forbidden Kingdom $2,169,323
Nim's Island $1,463,622
Prom Night $1,012,986
Source: Nielsen EDI
Interesting Film Fact of the week:
For the scene in What Happens In Vegas where Joy and Jack are drunk whilst they get married, the actors were actually drunk for the shooting of it. The things some people have to do for their jobs!
Exciting film news of the week:
Johnny Depp is one of the biggest Hollywood stars around but how many people can remember his early days as Officer Tom Hanson Jr. in 21 Jump Street? Well, rumours are surfacing that Superbad's Jonah Hill (the larger one) is in talks to develop a movie adaptation of the old TV show, although it remains unknown as to whether he will star in it or not.
Source: http://www.carltonscreen.co.uk/
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Racing into the 4th spot this weekend is the multi-coloured, all-action, high octane Speed Racer (Warner Bros.), bo! ught to us by the makers of The Matrix Trilogy. Opening with £362k, Speed Racer stars Emile Hirsch as the aforementioned Speed Racer - an aspiring young race driver who thinks of nothing but racing cars, especially after his older brother Rex is killed in a car crash. With the help of his Mom (Susan Sarandon) and Pop (John Goodman), as well as his girlfriend Trixie (Christina Ricci), Speed realises his dream by racing in The Crucible race against his long-time rival Racer-X (Matthew Fox). Vroom vroom!
Director Neil Marshall made his return this weekend with Doomsday (Universal), taking £312k and opening in 6th place. Set in a futuristic United Kingdom, a lethal plague has swept Scotland and with its inhabitants presumed dead, it has been quarantined off to prevent the disease spreading further. When the disease starts to emerge in England however, a team led by Eden (Rhona Mitra) is sent to see! k out Dr Kane (Malcolm MacDowell) who may have a cure. What Eden and her team encounter however are violent, cannibalistic inhabitants and their plan for a cure has to take some unexpected turns along the way.
Opening just outside the top 10 in 11th place, with £65k, is the Bollywood film Bhoothnath (Eros), which is a story about a mischievous seven year old boy and his deceased, yet stubborn and hot tempered grandfather.
The last new entry is Morgan 'Let's see how many Big Mac's I can eat before I am seriously ill' Spurlock's Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden? (Optimum), which opened in 14th place with £27k and is a documentary which sees Spurlock travelling around the Middle East, in search of the world's most wanted man. I personally saw him in Tesco the other day!
Official Box Office Figures 9th-11th May 2008
UK TOP 10 Box Office (9th-11th May 08)
Iron Man £1,976,721
What Happens In Vegas £1,263,093
Forgetting Sarah Marshall £524,326
Speed Racer £362,102
Nim's Island £317,505
Doomsday £311,383
Made of Honour £278,661
In Bruges £103,252
21 £89,656
The Eye £88,979
Source: Nielsen EDI US TOP 10 Box Office (9th-11th May 08)
Iron Man $51,190,629
What Happens In Vegas $20,172,474
Speed Racer $18,561,337
Made of Honour $8,116,323
Baby Mama $6,225,790
Forgetting Sarah Marshall $3,837,240
Harold & Kumar: Escape From .... $3,106,424
Forbidden Kingdom $2,169,323
Nim's Island $1,463,622
Prom Night $1,012,986
Source: Nielsen EDI
Interesting Film Fact of the week:
For the scene in What Happens In Vegas where Joy and Jack are drunk whilst they get married, the actors were actually drunk for the shooting of it. The things some people have to do for their jobs!
Exciting film news of the week:
Johnny Depp is one of the biggest Hollywood stars around but how many people can remember his early days as Officer Tom Hanson Jr. in 21 Jump Street? Well, rumours are surfacing that Superbad's Jonah Hill (the larger one) is in talks to develop a movie adaptation of the old TV show, although it remains unknown as to whether he will star in it or not.
Source: http://www.carltonscreen.co.uk/
Back to Main Page
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