Weekend box-office – 25th of April to 1st of May 2015 – will Furious 7 win its third lap?

The star studded action sequel Furious 7 has broken the record for the quickest film to surpass the billion dollar mark and is now entering its third weekend box office. The competition this week includes comedy sequel Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 and horror flick Unfriended. Last week, we predicted that Furious 7 would win but let’s find out what’ll really go down.

US:

1. Fast & Furious 7 – Director: James Wan – $29.2 million
2. Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 – Andy Fickman – $23.8 million
3. Unfriended – Levan Gabriadze – $15.8 million
4. Home – Tim Johnson – $10.6 million
5. The Longest Ride – George Tillman Jr – $7 million

UK:

1. Fast & Furious 7 – James Wan – £3 million
2. Cinderella – Kenneth Branagh – £1.1 million
3. Home – Tim Johnson – £0.9 million
4. Child 44 – Daniel Espinosa – £0.5 million
5. Woman in Gold – Simon Curtis – £0.4 million

Fast & Furious’ reign continues while the week’s biggest loser is Child 44, a Soviet-set thriller starring Tom Hardy and Gary Oldman. It was one of the year’s most anticipated and yet it’s already been deemed a commercial and critical bomb. This week we’ve scored 4/10. Here’s next week’s predictions as what may be the year’s biggest financial hits

US:

1. The Age of Adaline – Lee Toland Krieger
2. Fast & Furious 7 – James Wan
3. The Water Diviner – Russell Crowe
4. Paul Blart: Mall Cop – Andy Fickman
5. Unfriended – Levan Gabriadze

UK:

1. The Avengers: Age of Ultron – Joss Whedon
2. Fast & Furious 7 – James Wan
3. Cinderella – Kenneth Branagh
4. Home – Tim Johnson
5. Child 44 – Daniel Espinosa

Ludacris, Paul Walker, Tyrese Gibson and Vin Diesel in Fast & Furious 7, this week’s US and UK number one.

Weekend box-office – 4th to 10th of April 2015 – will Dreamworks Get Hard or go Home?

Dreamworks Animation have had numerous smash hit franchises such as Shrek/Puss in Boots ($3.6 billion in five films), Madagascar ($1.8 billion in three films), Kung Fu Panda ($1.3 billion in two films) and How to Train Your Dragon ($1.1 billion in two films). Their recent efforts have varied in success with smash hit The Croods and the lagging behind likes of Turbo and Peabody and Sherman. Their newest effort, Home, is releasing this week but it is challenging the tough opposition of crime comedy Get Hard, starring bankable actors Will Ferrell (The Other Guys, Anchorman) and Kevin Hart (Rise Along, The Wedding Ringer). Last week we predicted that Dreamworks would take the title.

US:

1. Home – Tim Johnson – $52.1 million
2. Get Hard – Etan Cohen – $33.8 million
3. Insurgent – Robert Schwentke – $21.5 million
4. Cinderella – Kenneth Branagh – $17 million
5. It Follows – David Robert Mitchell – $3.8 million

UK:

1. Cinderella – Kenneth Branagh – £3.8 million
2. Home – Tim Johnson – £2.6 million
3. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water – Paul Tibbitt – £2.3 million
4. Get Hard – Etan Cohen – £1.4 million
5. Insurgent – Robert Schwnetke – £1.3 million

It’s been a week dominated by four big hits, topped by home, with the indie horror hit It Follows creeping up into fifth place. The UK has crowned Cinderella as its victor for the second week running. While Insurgent, American Sniper and Fifty Shades of Grey have all been greatly successful next week’s Fast and Furious 7 ought to be the first film to breach the $100 million mark in its opening weekend this year. This week I’ve scored 7/10.

US:

1. Fast & Furious 7 – James Wan
2. Home – Tim Johnson
3. Get Hard – Etan Cohen
4. Insurgent – Robert Schwentke
5. Cinderella – Kenneth Branagh

UK:

1. Fast & Furious 7 – James Wan
2. Cinderella – Kenneth Branagh
3. The Water Diviner – Russell Crowe
4. Home – Tim Johnson
5. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water – Paul Tibbitt

The characters of Jim Parsons and Rihanna in Home, this week’s US number one.

Lily James in Cinderella, this week’s UK number one.