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Relevant comparisons are hard to identify, but the last film largely resting on Hardy's shoulders was 2011's Warrior, which kicked off with £808,000 from 383 screens, including £186,000 in previews. Including Easter Monday, Locke is up to £316,000. Distributor Lionsgate will be happy that its gross held steady across the weekend (Fri-Sat-Sun: £80,000, £82,000, £81,000), while the market overall dipped (Fri-Sat-Sun: £4.8m, £4.3m, £4.0m). A debut of £251,000 and a decent screen average of £2,128 resulted. Nurtured at a more selective 118 cinemas, Locke relied almost entirely on the star power of Tom Hardy, the only actor who appears on the screen. The European romantic caper rung up an OK £613,000 from UK cinemas, although with an aggressive rollout on 371 screens, the number translates to a lacklustre site average of £1,653. The Love Punch certainly offered an alternative to the teen characters foregrounded in the Marvel actioner, via lead actors aged 55 (Emma Thompson) and 60 (Pierce Brosnan). Several titles were positioned as counter-programming to Amazing Spidey, with mixed results. The original Rio film stood at £8.02m after three weeks of play, compared with £9.79m for Rio 2 currently, a disparity that should give distributor Fox encouragement. School holidays and animation make happy bedfellows for UK cinemas. Weekend takings only contributed £1.13m of that total, meaning that the film performed particularly impressively on weekdays last week, in the run-up to Good Friday. Moving up a place to second position, Rio 2 declined a relatively slim 27% from the previous weekend, and has added a nifty £3.03m over the past seven days. But its gross of £16.75m so far is well ahead of the £9.48m achieved here by the first Captain America. On the other hand, most kids are now back at school, which will limit the film midweek to primarily adult audiences.Īmong existing films in the market, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 had the strongest impact on Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which falls a hefty 53% from the previous weekend. With significantly less blockbuster competition in the offing, Sony will be hoping that Amazing Spider-Man 2 will show sturdier legs, pushing up towards £30m. The first Amazing Spider-Man rapidly faced stiff competition from the likes of The Dark Knight Rises, and ended up with £26m here. That six-day figure is very similar to the sequel's tally over the same period, also including Easter Monday. However, distributor Sony reports these as £1.72m, taking Spidey's total to £10.73m for the six days.īack in July 2012, the first Amazing Spider-Man film opened with £11.09m, including three days' worth of previews, totalling £4.36m. The official weekend box-office chart does not include takings for Easter Monday. Strip out the previews, and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 comes in at £6.13m, which compares with Lego's £5.9m over the Friday-to-Sunday period. Including previews from Wednesday and Thursday last week, the superhero sequel has earned five-day takings of £9.01m, which is ahead of The Lego Movie's previews-inclusive opening tally of £8.05m. Whichever way you look at it, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has just posted the biggest opening of 2014.