‘Paper Towns’ debuts at No.1 at UK box-office

Cara Delevingne has helped power Paper Towns straight to the top of the UK box office.

The John Green adaptation debuts in the top spot with takings of £2.7 million, leaving Pixar’s emotional rollercoaster Inside Out to retain its position at number two with £1.7m.

Meanwhile, new release Sinister 2 debuts at number three this week with takings of £1.2m.

Ed Helms’s comedy reboot Vacation and Jack Whitehall’s Bad Education Movie land at seven and eight respectively with £608,748 and £594,861.

Last week’s number one, Adam Sandler’s gaming comedy Pixels, drops to number six with takings of £820,456.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Paper Towns – £2,072,789
2. (2) Inside Out – £1,379,702
3. (-) Sinister 2 – £1,069,261
4. (3) Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation – £1,042,827
5. (4) Man From U.N.C.L.E. £917,934.
6. (1) Pixels – £820,456
7. (-) Vacation – £608,748
8. (-) Bad Education Movie – £594,861
9. (5) Trainwreck – £492,567
10. (8) Minions – £390,409

Source: Rentrak

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