Warner Bros.’ “Dune: Part II” continued its reign in the UK. and the Irish box office for the second weekend in a row with £5.9 million ($7.5 million), according to figures released by Comscore.
Denis Villeneuve’s highly anticipated sequel has an all-star cast including Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Zendaya, Charlotte Rampling and Javier Bardem reprising their roles from the first film, with Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Christopher Walken and Léa Seydoux becoming members of them. After two weekends, the film’s total stands at £19.4m in the territory.
In second place, Studiocanal’s “Depraved Little Letters” grossed £898,390 in its third weekend, taking its total to £6 million. In its fourth weekend, Paramount’s “Bob Marley: One Love” grossed £830,382 in third place for a total of £15.1 million. In fourth place, Common’s “Migration” grossed £671,666 in its sixth weekend for a total of £18.3 million.
Lionsgate’s “Imaginary” debuted in fifth place with £652,808. There was yet another debut in the top 10 – Bakrania Media’s Bollywood film “Shaitaan”, starring Ajay Devgn, R. Madhavan and Jyotika, which grossed £114,929 in sixth place.
In development this weekend is a trio of titles celebrated at Cannes. Signature Leisure is presenting Warwick Thornton’s “The New Boy,” starring Cate Blanchett, Aswan Reid, Deborah Mailman and Wayne Blair. The film chronicles the events that unfold after a nine-year-old orphaned Aboriginal Australian boy arrives at night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun. Picturehouse Entertainment is releasing Japanese auteur Kore-eda Hirokazu’s Cannes winner “Monster,” where a mother asks her son’s teacher for answers when her son starts showing up in surprising ways. And We Are Parable is opening “Banel & Adama,” where a young couple from Senegal must deal with the disapproval of their distant village.
Universal is opening Ethan Coen’s “Drive-Away Dolls,” starring Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Beanie Feldstein, Colman Domingo, where in search of a new beginning, two women embark on an impromptu road trip to Tallahassee, Florida. However, things quickly go wrong when they cross paths with a group of inept criminals.
Brass Mill Media is releasing the CPH DOX documentary “Phantom Parrot,” where the revelation of a top-secret British surveillance program topples the dominoes in a film about technology, rights and structural racism, and a man with the courage to speak out.
This weekend’s Bollywood release is Moviegoers Entertainment’s “Yodha,” headlined by Sidharth Malhotra, where terrorists hijack a passenger plane and an off-duty soldier on board devises a way to defeat them and ensure the passengers’ survival when the engine fails.
Park Circus is reissuing David Fincher’s seminal “Combat Membership,” starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton and Helena Bonham Carter.
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