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Deadpool has become the biggest R-rated opening ever at the US box office with an enormous $135m.

Ryan Reynold’s Marvel blockbuster is also the largest four-day President’s Day weekend debut for a movie ever after surpassing Fox’s estimation of $60-$65 million.

Meanwhile, Kung Fu Panda 3 is down to two with £19.6m and Rebel Wilson’s comedy How to be Single is new at three with $18.7m.

The Revenant is at five with $6.9m, the Coen brothers’ Hail, Caesar! is at six with $6.9m and Star Wars: The Force Awakens takes its total earnings to $914m with a $6m weekend.

Elsewhere, The Choice is at eight with $5.2m and Ride Along 2 is at nine with $4m.

Finally, The Boy rounds out the top ten with $2.9m.​

The top ten in full is as follows:

1. (-) Deadpool – $135,050,000

2. (1) Kung Fu Panda 3  – $19,650,000

3. (-) How to be Single – $18,750,000

4. (-) Zoolander 2 – $15,650,000

5. (4) The Revenant – $6,900,000

6. (2) Hail, Caesar – $6,590,000

7. (3) Star Wars: The Force Awakens – $6,194,000

8. (5) The Choice – $5,250,000

9. (8) Ride Along 2 – $4,130,000

10. (9) The Boy – $2,913,000

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Kung Fu Panda 3 has retained the top spot in this week’s US box office chart.

The comedy sequel took $21m in its second week to see off competition from the Coen brothers’ Hail, Ceasar!, which arrives at number two with £11.4m.

Elsewhere, The Revenant is at three with £7.1m and Star Wars: The Force Awakens is at 4 with £6.9m.

The Choice is new at 5 with $6m, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies lands at 6 with $5.2m and The Finest Hours is at 7 with $4.7m.

Ride Along 2 is at 8 with $4.5m and The Boy is at 9 with $4.09m.

Finally, Robert De Niro’s Dirty Grandpa rounds out the top ten with $4.05m.

The top ten in full is as follows:

1. (1) Kung Fu Panda 3 – $21,000,000

2. (-) Hail, Caesar!  – $11,440,000

3. (2) The Revenant – $7,100,000

4. (3) Star Wars: The Force Awakens – $6,085,000

5. (-) The Choice – $6,085,000

6. (-) Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – $5,200,000

7. (4) The Finest Hours – $4,715,000

8. (5) Ride Along 2 – $4,520,000

9. (7) The Boy – $4,098,000

10. (6) Dirty Grandpa – $4,050,000

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Kung Fu Panda 3 has won the top spot in this week’s US box office chart.

The ​third instalment in the comedy franchise, which stars Jack Black as high-kicking panda Po, came in as a new entry and went straight to the top, taking $41,000,000​.

The animation knocked last week’s chart-topper, The Revenant, into second place, as it earned $12,400,000​.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens slipped one place into number three after taking ​$10,782,000​, while disaster film The Finest Hours was a new entry at number four with earnings of ​$10,327,000​.

Ride Along 2 rounds out the top five, with ​$8,345,520​, and The Boy falls one spot into number six, with earnings of ​$7,894,000​.

Dirty Grandpa is at number seven with ​$7,575,000​ while The 5th Wave is down to number eight after taking ​$7,000,000​.

There’s another new entry at number nine, with parody movie Fifty Shades of Black entering the charts with ​$6,186,648​.

The top ten is completed by 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, which earned ​$6,000,000​ this week.

The top ten in full is as follows:

1. (-) Kung Fu Panda 3 – $41,000,000

2. (1) The Revenant ​– $12,400,000

3. (2) Star Wars: The Force Awakens​ – $10,782,000

4. (-)  The Finest Hours – $10,327,000

5. (3) Ride Along 2​ – $8,345,520

6. (5) The Boy ​– $7,894,000

7. (4) Dirty Grandpa​– $7,575,000

8. (6) The 5th Wave​– $7,000,000

9. (-) Fifty Shades of Black – $6,186,648

10. (7) 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi​– $6,000,000

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The Revenant has claimed the US box office following a quiet second week.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s drama knocked Ride Along 2​ off the top spot with $16m.

Elsewhere, Star Wars: The Force Awakens is at two with $14m, having earned a total of $879m in the US.

Last week’s number one Ride Along 2 is down to three with $12.9m, and Robert De Niro’s Dirty Grandpa is new at four with $11.5.

The Boy and The 5th Wave are also new at 5 and 6, earning $11m and $10m respectively.

Meanwhile, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi is at 7 with $9.7m and Daddy’s Home is at 8 with $5.7m.

Finally, Norm of the North is at 9 with $4m and The Big Short rounds out the top 10 with $3.5m.​

1. (2) The Revenant – $34,040,000

2. (3) Star Wars: The Force Awakens– $29,500,000

3. (1) Ride Along 2- $25,120,000

4. (-) Dirty Grandpa  – $16,000,000

5. (-) The Boy – $9,300,000

6. (-) The 5th Wave – $6,675,000

7. (4) 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi – $5,792,000

8. (5) Daddy’s Home – $5,200,000

9. (6) Norm of the North – $4,420,000

10. (8) The Big Short – $3,447,000

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The US finally has a new number one film, after Ride Along 2 took $34m to knock Star Wars: The Force Awakens off the top spot after five weeks.

The comedy sequel is new at one, while Leonardo DiCaprio’s The Revenant stays at two and The Force Awakens is at three with $25m.

Meanwhile, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi​ is new at four with $16m, while Daddy’s Home is at five with $9.3m.

Norm of the North is at six with $6.6m and The Forest is at seven with $5.7m.

The Big Short is at eight with $5.2m and Sisters is at nine with $4.4m.

Finally, Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight is at ten with $3.4m.

1. (-) Ride Along 2 – $34,040,000

2. (2) The Revenant – $29,500,000

3. (1) Star Wars: The Force Awakens – $25,120,000

4. (-) 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi​ – $16,000,000

5. (3) Daddy’s Home – $9,300,000

6. (-) Norm of the North – $6,675,000

7. (4) The Forest – $5,792,000

8. (7) The Big Short – $5,200,000

9. (5) Sisters – $4,420,000

10. (6) The Hateful Eight – $3,447,000

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