Weekend box-office – 23rd of May to 5th of June 2015 – will Tomorrowland enhance the future?

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We’ve have two weeks of box-office to cover.

Firstly, in the biggest movie showdown since Interstellar and Big Hero 6 went head to head last November, post-apocalypric action reboot Mad Max: Fury Road – starring Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises) and Charlize Theron (Prometheus) – rivals musical comedy sequel Pitch Perfect 2 – starring Anna Kendrick (Into the Woods) and Rebel Wilson (Night at the Museum 3). This two horse race culminates in a major week for the box-office and last week we predicted a pitch perfect opening for the Barden Bellas.

Week 1:

US:

  1. Pitch Perfect 2 – Director: Elizabeth Banks – $69.2 million
  2. Mad Max: Fury Road – George Miller – $45.4 million
  3. The Avengers: Age of Ultron – Joss Whedon – $38.9 million
  4. Hot Pursuit – Anne Fletcher – $5.7 million
  5. Fast & Furious 7 – James Wan – $3.6 million

UK:

  1. Pitch Perfect 2 – Elizabeth Banks – £5 million
  2. Mad Max: Fury Road – George Miller – £4.5 million
  3. The Avengers: Age of Ultron – Joss Whedon – £1.7 million
  4. Spooks: The Greater Good – Bharat Nalluri – £0.5 million
  5. Far From the Madding Crowd – Thomas Vinterberg – £0,4 million

Week 2:

In the next week, Brad Bird (the mind behind the hits The Iron Giant, The Incredible and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol) is launching his sci-fi spectacle Tomorrowland. At $190 million in costs, it might turn out to be another of Disney’s high budget/high profile live action disappointments John Carter and The Lone Ranger, despite the fact that talented directors Andrew Stanton (WALL-E) and Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean) were at the helm.

US:

  1. Tomorrowland: A World Beyond – Brad Bird – $33 million
  2. Pitch Perfect 2 – Elizabeth Banks – $30.8 million
  3. Mad Max: Fury Road – George Miller – $24.6 million
  4. Poltergeist – Gil Kenan – $22.6 million
  5. The Avengers: Age of Ultron – Joss Whedon – $21. 7 million

UK:

  1. Pitch Perfect 2 – Elizabeth Banks – £2.7 million
  2. Mad Max: Fury Road – George Miller – £2.6 million
  3. Tomorrowland: A World Beyond – Brad Bird – £1.5 million
  4. Poltergeist – Gil Kenan – £1.5 million
  5. The Avengers: Age of Ultron – Joss Whedon – £1.1 million

Anna Kendrick in Pitch Perfect 2, last week’s US and UK number one and this week’s UK number one.

Britt Robertson in Tomorrowland, this week’s US number one.

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