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UK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Bridget Jones’, ‘Captain America’ face off for Valentine’s Day

UK-Ireland box office preview: ‘Bridget Jones’, ‘Captain America’ face off for Valentine’s Day

Common’s Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy leads new releases in UK and Eire cinemas this weekend after grossing simply shy of £2.1m in previews on Thursday (February 13).

Making the most of Valentine’s Day, the fourth instalment within the British romantic comedy franchise screens in 733 venues from right now. The £2.1m Thursday complete is on par with 2008’s Intercourse And The Metropolis because the highest-grossing single-day preview for a romantic comedy within the territory.

Renee Zellweger returns to screens because the titular Bridget Jones, now a fifty-something widow who decides to go again to work and start courting once more. Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson are additionally among the many returning forged whereas new faces embody 2023 Display Star Of Tomorrow Leo Woodall and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Michael Morris directs with a screenplay from Dan Mazer, Abi Morgan and Helen Fielding who additionally wrote the novel on which the movie is predicated. 

Display earlier reported that Mad About The Boy was having fun with greater advance gross sales than that of fellow female-skewering juggernaut Barbie which opened on £18.4m again in 2023.

The fourth outing of Bridget Jones comes 9 years after Bridget Jones Child which debuted with £8.1m for a £48.1m cume. Bridget Jones’s Diary grossed £42.1m at UK and Eire cinemas in 2001 whereas its sequel Bridget Jones: The Edge Of Purpose dipped with £36.0m in 2004.

Going into battle with Bridget Jones is one other fourth instalment in a franchise – Captain America: Courageous New World  – which Disney is launching into 616 areas.

Anthony Mackie takes the reins from Chris Evans who performed the titular superhero within the earlier three entries. The final version got here in 2016 when Captain America: Civil Conflict bowed with £14.4m, a formidable soar from the 2013 sequel The Winter Soldier (£6m opening) and 2011’s The First Avenger (£3m).

Disney’s final Marvel outing Deadpool & Wolverine bucked the pattern of superhero fatigue with an enormous £12.6m debut final yr, however different current comedian ebook titles haven’t fared so nicely, comparable to Sony’s Kraven The Hunter which opened to simply £686,806 late final yr.

Julius Onah directs Courageous New World which sees the brand new Captain America caught in the course of a world incident. Harrison Ford, Danny Ramirez, Livy Tyler and Giancarlo Esposito are among the many supporting forged.

Valentine’s-themed releases

Additionally opening this weekend is the romance horror Coronary heart Eyes in 401 cinemas through Paramount. Set on Valentine’s Day, the slasher follows a masked killer intent on murdering romantic {couples}. Josh Ruben directs with a forged together with Olivia Holt and Mason Gooding.

Vertigo Releasing has youngsters’s animation The Sloth Lane is out in 318 websites. The Australian function premiered at Annecy and centres on a household of sloths attempting to adapt to life within the massive metropolis.

Memoir Of A Snail

Fellow Australian animation, and Oscar nominee, Memoir Of A Snail glides into 66 websites for Fashionable Movies. Winner of finest function at Annecy, Adam Elliott’s function, loosely primarily based on his life, stars the voice of Sarah Snook as a melancholic hoarder.

Conic Movie has crime thriller To A Land Unknown in 30 venues. Mahdi Fleifel’s Cannes title follows a Palestinian refugee who seeks revenge on the streets of Athens.

In re-releases, Park Circus is screening the 1945 basic Temporary Encounter in 31 cinemas whereas AA Movies has the 1994 Indian musical Hum Aapke Hain Koun! In 15 websites. 

Additional releases embody Indian actions Chhaava and Laila through Yash Raj Movies and Dreamz Leisure, respectively, in addition to Japanese drama Cottontail through Day For Night time.

Key holdover titles embody Disney’s A Full Unknown  and Common’s Canine Man.

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