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Welcome to the Punch

Welcome to the Punch
2013
 99 minutes (1 hrs 39 mins)

Production Country

United Kingdom • United States

Director and Cast Quickview

Directed by

Eran Creevy

Starring

James McAvoy · Mark Strong · Andrea Riseborough · Johnny Harris · Daniel Mays · David Morrissey

Full cast & crew

Release dates

US release date US release: 27th March 2013
United Kingdom release date United Kingdom release: 15th March 2013
Ireland release date Ireland release: 15th March 2013

Box Office Quickview

UK box office

  • Debut box office: 15th Mar '13
  • Debut position: 3
  • Highest position: 3
  • Debut gross: £460.3 Thousand
  • Total chart weeks: 9

US box office

  • Box Office debut: 29th Mar '13
  • Debut position: 95
  • Highest position: 95
  • Debut gross: $2.7 Thousand
  • Total chart weeks: 2

Chart position history

UK box office

15 Mar, 2013
3
22 Mar, 2013
8

US box office

Global box office

Certificates

US
R

VM12

15A

16

MA15+

15

Total grosses

UK total gross
United Kingdom Flag  £1.1 Million
US total gross
United States Flag  $6.8 Thousand
Global total gross
Global Flag  $0

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News from around the web
Welcome to the Punch – review  The Guardian Thu, 14th March 2013

Welcome To The Punch Review  empireonline.com Fri, 27th January 2012

Smooth Operators Slink Into the Desolate Night (Published 2013)  The New York Times Tue, 26th March 2013

Welcome To The Punch  Screen Daily Mon, 25th February 2013

Movie Reviews: Welcome To The Punch, The Spirit of '45, Side By Side  Business Live Thu, 30th May 2013

Film Review: ‘Welcome to the Punch’  Variety Fri, 15th March 2013

All change again this week as the Aaron Paul racing film Need for Speed takes over at the top of the UK box office.

An adaptation of a popular video game, Need for Speed enters the chart at the top with a £2 million Friday - Sunday gross.

In an unusual move the Wes Anderson directed The Grand Budapest Hotel moves up one place to 2 this week taking £1.3 million over the weekend.

Last weeks top film, 300 Rise of an Empire, falls to three this week.

This weeks new films: -

  • Need For Speed
  • Under the Skin
  • Werther Met Opera 2014
This time last year Oz The Great and Powerful stayed at the top of the box office while the highest new film was Welcome to the Punch.

Five years ago Wilson and Aniston starred in Marley and Me and was the highest new film entering at the top of the box office knocking Watchmen into second place.

Ten years ago Julia Roberts starred in Mona Lisa Smile entering the box office at the top knocking Along Came Polly right down to third place.

Fifteen years ago Robin Williams was starring in Patch Adams which took the top spot knocking A Bugs Life down to two.

Sam Raimi's Oz prequel is still at the top of the UK box office with Steven Soderbergh's Side Effects holding firm in the runner up spot.

Oz The Great and Powerful is proving to be a huge hit for Disney at it hold the UK box office top spot for a second weekend on the trot. A weekend gross of £2.6 million has meant that after 10 days the film has taken £7.6 million in total.

Side Effects holds it's own at 2 leaving the highest new film, Welcome to the Punch, to land at 3. With only £460,250 for the weekend it's a weak opening for the highest new film. Doing even worse is the new Jim Carey film The Incredible Burt Wonderstone which land at with only just over £300,000.

This time last year The Devil Inside was the debut film at the top with just why of £2 million. John Carter was the film knocked from the top spot after bad reviews and a single week.

Five years ago Roland Emmerich's 10,000 BC was the top film with just shot of £2 million on it's opening weekend. Vantage Point was the film it knocked off after only a week.

Ten years ago Maid in Manhattan was still the top film, a weekend of £1.2 million took it's total gross to £4.6 million. Highest new film was The Life of David Gale which landed at 2 with £725,000.

Fifteen years ago it was still Titanic at the top, enough said, highest new film was As Good As It Gets at 3 with just why of a million pound.

A lot of new releases this week starring the likes of Jim Carrey, Elijah Wood, Zac Efron, James McAvoy and then there's The Last Exorcism sequel. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone is a wacky comedy also starring Steve Carell alongside Jim Carrey about 2 superstar magicians who are being out performed by street magicians so they go for sabotage of their act.

Maniac is a serial killer story about a Mannequin shop owner who develops a dangerous obsession with an artist.

The Paperboy has a seller cast of Zac Efron, Matthew McConaughey, Nicole Kidman and John Cusack, the story follows a reporter who returns to Florida to investigate a case which involves a prisoner on death row.

Welcome to the punch is a criminal cat and mouse story about an ex-con who returns to London for family reasons and is then pursued by an old foe looking to finally get revenge.

The Last Exorcism Part 2 is is a sequel film about an Exorcism, clearly the last one wasn't the last one!