Sausage Party, Seth Rogen’s animation about horny, hard-talking supermarket products who discover the truth about their fate beyond the store, has topped the UK box office on its first week of release.
It took £2.7m, enough to move former No 1 Finding Dory into third place, which has now taken £38.9m in the UK, and is the second biggest release of the year (behind Disney’s The Jungle Book).
Noel Clarke’s Brotherhood was another new opener to perform strongly, taking nearly £2m, with an especially impressive site average of £4,579. Meanwhile Café Society took £491,000 from 186 sites on its first week of release, making it Woody Allen’s fourth-best UK opening, while Mia Hansen-Løve’s Things to Come, starring Isabelle Huppert, also marked her career best, with £50,363.
The BFG rose 6% on its seventh week, taking its current total to £28.7m, while films enjoying only minimal falloff in attendance included Mila Kunis comedy Bad Moms, which fell only 5% week-on-week and Nine Lives, starring Kevin Spacey as a man trapped in a cat, which dropped 8% in its third week.
But there was less luck for Suicide Squad, which fell 40% (though it has already racked up a healthy £32.5m) and David Brent: Life on the Road, which dropped 60% for a £3.4m running total.
