Weekend box-office – 14th to 20th of January 2015 – will Jupiter ascend to greatness?

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Two of this week’s major releases are ones that suffered horrific delays. Off the financial disappointment of Cloud Atlas, The Matrix’s team the Wachowskis had planned the sci-fi action Jupiter Ascending (starring Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum) for July 2014 but fantasy adventure Seventh Son was originally set for February 2013, a full two years ago. Their efforts to get into American screens may be undone by animation The SpongeBob Movie. Last week, we predicted Jupiter would win but let’s see what goes down.

US:

  1. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water – Director: Paul Tibbitt – $55.4 million
  2. American Sniper – Clint Eastwood – $23.3 million
  3. Jupiter Ascending – The Wachowskis – $18.4 million
  4. Seventh Son – Sergei Bodrov – $7.2 million
  5. Project Almanac – Dean Israelite – $5.2 million

UK:

  1. Big Hero 6 – Don Hall, Chris Williams – £2.5 million
  2. Kingsman: The Secret Service – Matthew Vaughn – £2.2 million
  3. Shaun the Sheep Movie – Mark Burton, Richard Starzak – £2.1 million
  4. Jupiter Ascending – The Wachowskis – £1.3 million
  5. American Sniper – Clint Eastwood – £1 million

SpongeBob (which features Antonio Banderas as a pirate) has experienced a fairly high profile entry while we can best describe Jupiter Ascending’s debut as mediocre at its best. Still, it’s above to complete flop of Seventh Son. In the UK, it faired no better as Disney animation Big Hero 6 held off spy thriller Kingsman: The Secret Service for a second week. This week we’ve scored 1\10.

US:

  1. Fifty Shades of Grey – Sam Taylor Johnson
  2. Kingsman: The Secret Service – Matthew Vaughn
  3. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge out of Water – Paul TibbittK
  4. American Sniper – Clint Eastwood
  5. Jupiter Ascending – The Wachowskis

UK:

  1. Fifty Shades of Grey – Sam Taylor Johnson
  2. Big Hero 6 – Don Hall, Chris Williams
  3. Kingsman: The Secret Service – Matthew Vaughn
  4. Shaun the Sheep Movie – Mark Burton, Richard Starzak
  5. Jupiter Ascending – The Wachowskis

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge out of Water, this week’s US number one.

Ryan Potter and Scott Adsit in Big Hero 6, this week’s UK number one.

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