£605.9 Thousand
$36.3 Million
$38.6 MillionBritish feel good comedy drama The Phantom Of The Open is given a 12A age rating by the BBFC.
The British love a true life underdog movie, like 2015's Eddie the Eagle, and here they go again with a golfing movie about an amateur player who got into the open!.
The movie stars Mark Rylance as Maurice Flitcroft, the amateur golfer who was accepted into the open, and Sally Hawkins as his wife, it also stars Rhys Ifans.
The movie is directed by Craig Roberts who brought us Eternal Beauty in 2019 but is better know as one of the stars of Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans.
Movie Synopsis
Amateur golfer Maurice Flitcroft achieves his late-in-life goal of participating in the British Open Golf Championship, much to the ire of the staid golfing community.
BBFC certificate breakdown.
This week there wasn't too much of a surprise to see The Amazing Spider-Man 2 enter the box office at the very top after a much hyped and anticipated release.
A sequel to the 2012 re-boot franchise, a new generation of people have now accepted this take on the webbed hero in contrast to Sam Raimi and Toby Maguire's 2002 - 2007 series of films.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 enteres the box office with a weekend gross of £9 million, not quite enough to put it among the greats.
With only enough room for one superhero last weeks top film, Captain America: The Winter Soldier falls to four this week.
Other new films - The Love Punch - Locke - 2 States
This time last year Olympus Has Fallen took over from Tom Cruise in Oblivion to become the top film on it's debut.
Five years ago Monsters Vs. Aliens was still holding the top spot with the highest new film coming from I Love You Man at four.
Ten years ago it was still Scooby Doo 2 Monsters Unleashed at the top with the highest new film The Butterfly Effect coming in at five.
Fifteen years ago saw The Faculty climb to the top knocking The Rugrats Movie down to two while the highest new film was An Ideal Husband at three.
This week The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey nudges it's way past the $1 Billion world box office taking mark making it 15th film that has made it past the milestone.
This is an interesting group of films but the group is becoming less and less elite as time goes on, like the magic $100 million mark of time past.
The first film to manage the feat was Titanic back in 1998, and it held the record as the only film to have done it until 2003 when The Return of the King managed it. Since then, and with the introduction of 3D where you are charged more for your ticket, we have had 13 other films make the grade.
Of the 15, 8 had a 3D releases as well as a 2D release, 4 were released in 2012, 2 have made over $2 Billion, 1 made it over the billion mark after it's 3D re-release last year, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, and 1 was released in about 6 different formats.
The $1 Billion club is bound to grow and grow so chart watchers are now looking for the next flurry of films to make over $2 Billion, a hard task of which only 1 film has truly made it without a re-release, but that had a 3D tax, Avatar.
These figures are not adjusted for inflation in ticket prices, this is a hotly debated subject, but it is generally accepted that the highest grossing film of all time if ticket sales had always been at today's prices would be Gone With the Wind, whic would today gross $3.2 Billion at the box office, in fact the top 15 would look something more like this