The title race for this year’s comedy smash hit arguably began with The Other Woman a couple of weeks back but the first real contender is this week’s Bad Neighbours, a star studded comedy set to rip into the box office. Additionally, its release is kickstarting the summer movie season. Last week, we predicted it’d leap in ahead of The Amazing Spider-Man 2’s second week of release but let’s see how it got on.
US:
- Bad Neighbours – Director: Nicholas Stoller – $49 million
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – Marc Webb – $35.1 million
- The Other Woman – Nick Cassavetes – $9.6 million
- Heaven is for Real – Randall Wallace – $7.5 million
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier – Anthony and Joe Russo – $5.8 million
UK:
- Bad Neighbours – Nicholas Stoller – £8.4 million
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – Marc Webb – £1.3 million
- The Other Woman – Nick Cassavetes – £0.9 million
- Rio 2 – Carlos Saldanha – £0.6 million
- Pompeii – Paul WS Anderson – £0.5 million
It’s not too surprising to find Bad Neighbours topping both sides of the Atlantic but this is the first time in a while that the UK and US box office top 3 have been identical. Superhero adventure Spider-Man 2 is doing decent numbers but it may not be the ones that Sony hoped for, as it is The Winter Soldier will lead it at the end of the year. Revenge comedy The Other Woman meanwhile is still holding out but its unlikely to be remembered. Despite a critical thrashing, Heaven is for Real is still reeling in the predominantly Christian audience in America while, in the UK, historical epic Pompeii is getting increasingly unlikely to breach the $100 million mark, let alone it’s minimal target of $160 million. This week’s score of 6/10 takes my running total to 135/280.
US:
- Godzilla – Gareth Edwards
- Bad Neighbours – Nicholas Stoller
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – Marc Webb
- Million Dollar Arm – Craig Gillespie
- The Other Woman – Nick Cassavetes
UK:
- Godzilla – Gareth Edwards
- Bad Neighbours – Nicholas Stoller
- The Two Faces of January – Hossein Amini
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – Marc Webb
- The Other Woman – Nick Cassavetes
Zac Efron, Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne in Bad Neighbours, this week’s UK and US box office number one.
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