


This film needed to be in indie cinemas to connect with its likeliest audience, but those venues had other choices, and Sony instead released it overwhelmingly in multiplexes, grossing £19,300 from 103 venues.Ībsolutely Fabulous: the Movie: Edina and Patsy in big screen debut Guardianīookers are hoping that Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie will deliver a boost.

But that result is positively joyful when compared with The Meddler, starring Susan Sarandon and Rose Byrne. It begins with £57,000 from 107 cinemas, yielding a weak £531 average. Elvis & Nixon starring Michael Shannon and Kevin Spacey recounts an intriguing celebrity meeting, but it was always hard to imagine audiences flocking, especially outside the US. Several new releases offered alternatives to the big two blockbusters, and all under performed to varying degrees. If previews are included, that’s the ninth biggest debut of the year so far, behind Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (£14.62m), Captain America: Civil War (£14.47m), Deadpool (£13.73m), The Jungle Book (£9.90m), The Secret Life of Pets (£9.58m), X-Men: Apocalypse (£7.35m), Zootropolis (£5.31m) and The Revenant (£5.24m). Its UK opening of £5.07m included previews of £944,000. Belated sequel Independence Day: Resurgence arrives in a different landscape in which there has been no shortage of action blockbusters propelled by high concepts and spectacular visual effects.
