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Home defeats The Divergent Series: Insurgent at the UK box office

March 25, 2015 by Gary Collinson

UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 20th March to Sunday 22nd March 2015…

DreamWorks Animation’s Home fended off competition from YA sequel The Divergent Series: Insurgent to take top spot at the UK box office this past weekend with a hefty £6,025,917 opening, although that did include £3.4 million of previews from the previous Saturday and Sunday.

Despite failing to secure top spot, Insurgent was up 44% on the opening haul of its predecessor, earning £2,938,860 (which included £385,000 of previews) for a comfortable second place. Meanwhile the Sean Penn actioner The Gunman debuted in fifth with £405,934, while Jason Statham’s latest Wild Card just managed to sneak into the top ten with £152,034.

Number one this time last year: The Grand Budapest Hotel

1. Home, £6,025,917 weekend (New)
2. The Divergent Series: Insurgent, £2,938,860 weekend (New)
3. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, £671,088 weekend; £13,413,705 total (4 weeks)
4. Focus, £490,317 weekend; £6,527,072 total (4 weeks)
5. The Gunman, £405,934 weekend (New)
6. Run All Night, £348,638 weekend; £1,680,666 total (2 weeks)
7. Suite Francaise, £268,607 weekend; £1,293,408 total (2 weeks)
8. Still Alice, £257,016 weekend; £1,698,527 total (3 weeks)
9. Fifty Shades of Grey, £235,681 weekend; £34,395,106 total (6 weeks)
10. Wild Card, £152,034 weekend (New)

Incoming…

Friday brings us several new releases, including Disney’s live-action Cinderella (cert. TBC) [read our review here], along with The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (cert. U), fantasy Seventh Son (cert. 12A) [read our review here], comedy Get Hard (cert. TBC), black comedy Wild Tales (cert. 15), British sci-fi Robot Overlords (cert. TBC), sci-fi thriller The Signal (cert. 15) [read our review here] and psychological thriller The Face of An Angel (cert. 15).

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, Movies, News, UK Box Office Tagged With: Fifty Shades of Grey, Focus, Home, run all night, Still Alice, suite francaise, The Divergent Series: Insurgent, The Gunman, The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, Wild Card

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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