Robert De Niro film Dirty Grandpa tops box office as Star Wars clears $90m takings hurdle
Dirty Grandpa was the big hit of the weekend knocking The Revenant off its perch and Star Wars: The Force Awakens into third place, as the end of school holidays saw a slowdown at cinemas.
The new release, which stars Zac Efron as an uptight man who drives his grandpa – played by Robert De Niro – to Florida the week before his wedding and ends up getting caught up in Spring Break, made $2.39m on 226 screens.
Another new entry was hard-hitting film Spotlight, about an investigative reporting unit of a newspaper striving to get to the bottom of a massive child abuse cover up by the Catholic Church, managed fifth spot, with $895,991 on 105 screens.
Leonardo Di Caprio flick The Revenant was second on the list taking $1.568m across 304 screens, with total takings of $15.915m so far, and Star Wars in third with $1.29m with takings now in excess of $90m.
Last week’s number one, Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, took $1.267m on 298 screens.
| Title (Distributor) | Weekend B/O | Screens | Total B/O |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dirty Grandpa (Eone) | $2,379,170 | 226 | $2,460,393 |
| The Revenant (Fox) | $1,568,446 | 304 | $15,915,946 |
| Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Disney) | $1,290,271 | 221 | $90,638,978 |
| The Hateful Eight (Roadshow) | $1,267,202 | 298 | $5,746,188 |
| Spotlight (Eone) | $895,991 | 105 | $984,512 |
| Goosebumps (Roadshow) | $872,582 | 284 | $8,786,358 |
| The 5th Wave (Sony) | $830,874 | 206 | $6,334,812 |
| The Big Short (Paramount) | $822,505 | 192 | $5,236,767 |
| Sisters (Universal) | $723,784 | 240 | $10,736,900 |
| Daddy's Home (Paramount) | $513,271 | 206 | $21,054,953 |
| The Danish Girl (Universal) | $420,777 | 124 | $1,650,892 |
| Alvin And The Chipmunks: Road Chip (Fox) | $386,659 | 202 | $13,543,698 |
| The Good Dinosaur (Disney) | $319,512 | 157 | $14,527,228 |
| Carol (Transmission) | $262,998 | 100 | $2,124,822 |
| Snoopy And Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie (Fox) | $257,601 | 190 | $7,854,828 |
| Room (Roadshow) | $246,922 | 63 | $485,986 |
| Ip Man 3 (Magnum) | $239,857 | 19 | $991,648 |
| Suffragette (Transmission) | $133,345 | 86 | $4,107,198 |
| Looking For Grace (Palace) | $99,618 | 26 | $207,665 |
| Youth (Studiocanal) | $94,862 | 39 | $1,220,222 |
“Robert De Niro film Dirty Grandpa tops box office”
Edifying stuff …
Recommend this before going anywhere near this De Niro mangnum opus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05GwDHYXlmI
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