Spotlight doubles takings after Best Picture Oscar as Lady in the Van opens strongly

Spotlight, the winner of the Best Picture gong at last Monday’s Oscars saw its box office takings double on the previous weekend, while British film The Lady in the Van enjoyed a strong opening weekend.

The new release, based on a biographical play by Alan Bennett about an eccentric woman who lived in a van on his driveway for 15 years, took $2.077m on its opening weekend on 266 screens.

It still could not touch Marvel Comics’ Deadpool, which took $2.5m on 407 screens to stay at the top of the box office – with takings now topping $37m.

Oscar winner Spotlight, a hard-hitting film about a team of journalists investigating widespread child abuse in the Catholic Church, took $454,815 over the weekend on 176 screens – up from $233,963 on 159 screens the previous weekend.

Rebel Wilson’s How to Be Single slipped to third place with $1.317m on 265 screens, with a total take of $8.098m, while Coen Brothers’ film Hail, Caesar! slipped to $675,091 on 248 screens on its second week.

Another new release, Triple 9, about a group of criminals planning their biggest heist, took $454,001 on 145 screens.

Alex Hayes

Alex Hayes worked for Mumbrella from 2013 to 2017 in roles including editor and head of Mumbrella Bespoke. He has been a journalist for more than a decade working on newspapers and websites in the UK and Australia, specialising in the media and marketing sector since 2012.

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