Peter Rabbit 2, Nomadland top U.K. box office charts
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26 May 2021, 04:27 GMT+10
Washington [US], May 25 (ANI): Peter Rabbit 2 from Sony family and Disney s Oscar champion Nomadland topped the charts as the UK enjoyed its first full week of the box office in months.
According to Variety, the vast majority of cinemas in the UK are now open. Some 80 per cent of movie theatres across England, Scotland and Wales opened doors on May 17, with Northern Ireland due to reopen this week. However, cinemas in the Scottish city of Glasgow remain closed, as do all cinemas in the Republic of Ireland, a territory traditionally counted alongside the U.K. for box office collections.
I spent a good part of the last year at home pining for the big screen and coming up with dream double bills. The Ipswich Film Theatre has been kind enough to program some of them.”
In addition to Edgar Wright’s dream double-bills the Ipswich Film Theatre will be offering audiences a chance to catch up with some Oscar-winning movies on the big screen.
Dan said: “We’ve packed our reopening programme with BAFTA and Oscar winners like Sound Of Metal, Minari, and The Father. We’re also taking to the road with six films exploring the evolving American Dream: Frances McDormand stars in Chloé Zhao’s BAFTA and Oscar-winning Nomadland, Kelly Reichardt explores the birth of American capitalism in First Cow, Paul Newman demands to live free in Cool Hand Luke and we have the BFI reissue of Robert Altman’s Nashville in 4K.
Washington [US], May 25 (ANI): 'Peter Rabbit 2' from Sony family and Disney's Oscar champion 'Nomadland' topped the charts as the UK enjoyed its first full week of the box office in months.
Far from a flop: Peter Rabbit 2 grossed £3.81 million on opening weekend
Credit: Sony Pictures
Animal adventure hops to chart victory
UK cinema operators have cause to be both mightily relieved as well as cautiously optimistic after audiences returned at the weekend in significant numbers – led by the charge of Peter Rabbit 2. The family film sequel grossed £3.81 million from 496 cinemas for the weekend period, and £4.61m including takings from Monday-to-Thursday last week.
Cinemas were permitted to reopen in England, Scotland and Wales last Monday (May 17), and by the weekend 598 had chosen to do so.
The reopening programme stands in marked contrast to the spiral of pessimism that challenged the cinema sector after the first lockdown lifted last July – when a dire lack of new film releases resulted in a tentative reopening programme, which in turn confirmed distributors’ disinclination to release strong titles. Until Tenet landed on August Bank Holiday weekend, cinema