Landing both the biggest ever September opening and the biggest ever opening for a British 18-rated film, Tom Hardy’s Kray Twins drama LEGEND has risen and took the box office number one spot by storm over the weekend, with an impressive £5,189,074 in-comings.
Based on these statistics this is the highest earning opening weekend for a film with Tom Hardy in the lead role, narrowly beating MAD MAX: FURY ROAD earlier this year; in supporting roles, the film is dwarfed by opening takes for INCEPTION and THE DARK KNIGHT RISES.
Other new entries this week filled the top positions, with the likes of MAZE RUNNER the sequel, “The Scorch Trials” which had a reasonably impressive second place opening with £2,799,428, whilst director M. Night Shymalan‘s thriller THE VISIT opened in third place with £1,031,292.
However, outside of the new releases, no other movie crossed the £1 million mark this weekend – but the success of both LEGEND and THE SCORCH TRIALS looks set to carry on to next week, when the big new release is EVEREST, which will be hitting our screens on Friday.
Take a look at the trailer for LEGEND below.
