Debuting with £910,000 from just 138 cinemas, or £995,000 including previews, The Death of Stalin is the star performer of the UK weekend box office.
In April 2009, Iannucci’s In the Loop also opened robustly, with £469,000 from 104 cinemas, including modest previews of £9,000.
The Death of Stalin has essentially doubled that result, although it opened a bit wider, and benefits from eight years of ticket price inflation.
However, audiences did indeed materialise for Geostorm, and a UK opening of £1.63m could have been a lot worse.
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