Peter Rabbit thumps Pacific Rim: Uprising
Screenshot from Peter Rabbit. (Photo: Sony Pictures) ENGLAND - Easily resisting between those two figures the challenge of mega-budget by the end of its run. With sequel Pacific Rim: Uprising, sequels, distributors hope to Peter Rabbit was a convincing grow the theatrical box office, winner at the box office appealing to audiences who in its second week. Takings caught up with the original fell by a reasonable 37% from film on home-entertainment a stellar opening, with £4.6m platforms. That happened over the weekend period and with Marvel franchises such £13.6m after 10 days. The as Iron Man, Thor, Captain good news for distributor America and Guardians of Sony is that the Easter school the Galaxy. But sometimes holiday is still to come. the outcome is different. In For comparison, Paddington 2003, for example, total UK 2 stood at £16.9m after two box office for Lara Croft weekends of play, while Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Pixar’s Coco had reached Life (£5.30m) was less than £8.17m. Totals so far for those half the lifetime number for two films are £42.6m and the original Lara Croft: Tomb £18.1m respectively. Peter Raider (£12.8m) two years Rabbit should earn something earlier. In July 2013, Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim debuted with £2.19m in the UK on its way to a total of £8.39m. Based on those numbers, audiences weren’t crying out for a sequel, but the film was huge in other markets. Now Pacific Rim: Uprising arrives, with del Toro moving into the producer’s chair to make way for new director Steven S DeKnight’s UK debut is an unexciting £1.66m, which is 25% down on the Pacific Rim opening number.
In the US, Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time, adapted from Madeleine L’Engle’s beloved children’s book, debuted with $33m, and after three weekends has reached a decent $74m. An equivalent opening number in the UK market would be £3.3m.
Such an outcome was never realistically on the cards. L’Engle’s book isn’t so well known in the UK, and cast names including Oprah Winfrey are not quite as meaningful as they are in the US. Still, Disney gave it a good try, bringing Winfrey to Britain, alongside fellow cast members Reese Witherspoon and Mindy Kaling and director Ava DuVernay.
(The Guardian)