Round two of the battle between Sex And The City and Indiana Jones saw a victory for the females. The fashion-obsessed quartet scored £3.09 million from 469 cinemas, as against £2.67 million from 535 for The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull.
But Indiana Jones has been released six days longer, and its 18-day total stands at an impressive £32.70 million, as against Sex And The City’s 12-day tally of £16.06 million. Carrie Bradshaw and friends still have a long way to go to catch Indie.
With such monster hits already in the market, no new blockbusters opened at the weekend. But three moderate-size new releases landed at numbers 3 to 5 on the chart. Top dog was comedy spoof Superhero Movie, which shrugged off critical brickbats to bank £851,000 from 396 screens. Behind it was teen horror remake Prom Night, with £508,000 from 285. And then there was Gone Baby Gone, directed by Ben Affleck. The gritty crime picture garnered excellent reviews, but didn’t quite catch fire with audiences, who were clearly in the mood for escapist fare, not a story about a child kidnapping. The Miramax film disappointed with £351,000 from 259 cinemas.
Two other new releases landed in the Top 10. Indian film Sarkar Raj, sequel to The Godfather-like Sarkar, took £188,000 from 49 screens, for a healthy average of £3,831. Historical actioner Mongol was one place behind it, with £185,000 from 76 sites. The Genghis Khan epic, which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Picture at the Oscars®, was praised by the UK critics.
The other specialist releases were all commercially modest affairs. Let’s Get Lost, the re-released Bruce Weber documentary about jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, took £15,500 from ten theatres. Brit indie romcom The Waiting Room, starring Ralf Little and Anne-Marie Duff, grossed £6,300, also from ten locations. David Lean’s re-released The Passionate Friends managed a healthy £3,600 from its single screen.
A full 35 places below The Passionate Friends, at number 69, is Japanese oddity Kamikaze Girls, with just £742 from its one cinema. But that’s a triumph compared with LA dark comedy In Memory Of My Father, starring Jeremy Sisto and Judy Greer, which took a reported £79 from its sole location. Grosses for Italian thriller Nightbus and Tamil movie Dasavathram did not appear on our report.
With mostly warm weather across the UK, and no major summer blockbusters released, overall the top 15 films were an unsurprising 47% down on the previous weekend. But more encouragingly, the market was a healthy 24% up on the same weekend from 2007, when Ocean’s Thirteen opened at the top with over £3 million. Cinemas will be hoping that this Friday’s release of both The Incredible Hulk and M Night Shyamalan’s The Happening will provide further commercial buoyancy.
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