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Fantastic Four tops the UK box office chart

August 11, 2015 by Gary Collinson

UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 7th August to Sunday 9th August 2015…

It may have failed to dethrone Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation in the States, but 20th Century Fox’s Fantastic Four has had a modicum of good new here in the UK, with the reboot shaking off bad reviews to claim top spot with an opening weekend of £2,686,176.

Despite taking first place, the film failed to match its predecessors, with 2005’s Fantastic Four opening with £3.5 million, and 2007’s Fantastic 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer debuting to £4.1 million.

In addition to Fantastic Four, Joel Edgerton’s directorial debut The Gift also cracked the top ten, opening in fifth place with £584,552, while documentary Amy reentered the chart in its sixth week on its way to becoming the highest-grossing British documentary of all time.

Number one this time last year: The Inbetweeners 2

1. Fantastic Four – £2,686,176 weekend (New)
2. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation – £2,408,562 weekend (2 weeks)
3. Inside Out – £1,957,627 weekend (3 weeks)
4. Southpaw – £793,255 weekend (3 weeks)
5. The Gift – £584,552 weekend (New)
6. Ant-Man – £565,319 weekend (4 weeks)
7. Minions – £516,174 weekend (7 weeks)
8. Secret Cinema presents Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back – £261,750 weekend (10 weeks)
9. Jurassic World – £178,441 weekend (9 weeks)
10. Amy – £85,725 weekend (6 weeks)

Incoming…

Opening on Wednesday is the Adam Sandler sci-fi comedy Pixels [read our review here], while Friday’s newcomers include Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck [read our review here], Guy Ritchie’s spy caper The Man from U.N.C.L.E. starring Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer, Terry Jones’ Absolutely Anything, and documentary Precinct Seven Five (cert. 15).

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News, UK Box Office Tagged With: Amy, Ant-Man, fantastic four, Inside Out, Jurassic World, Minions, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, Southpaw, Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, the gift

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is a film, TV and digital content producer and writer, who is the founder of the pop culture website Flickering Myth and producer of the gothic horror feature film 'The Baby in the Basket' and the upcoming suspense thriller 'Death Among the Pines'.

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