Mrs. Brown’s Boys D'Movie D’feats Hollywood Heavyweights

It’s official: ‘Mrs. Brown’s Boys’ is now more popular than Tom Cruise with UK cinemagoers.

‘Mrs. Brown’s Boys D’Movie’ - a spin-off for Brendan O’Carroll’s BBC sitcom - is number one in the UK box office chart for the second week in a row, earning £2.1 million last weekend.

That takes its box office tally to a whopping £9.2 million, making the UK’s fifteenth most successful movie this year so far. We expect it to go higher next week.

What’s amazing is that ‘D’Movie’ has already overtaken some much hyped – and much more expensive – Hollywood heavyweights.

For example, it’s out-performed ‘The Fault In Our Stars’, an adaptation of the hit young adult novel starring actress-of-the-moment Shailene Woodley that’s been a social media phenomenon this year.

It’s also defeated another Woodley young adult vehicle ‘Divergent’ - touted as the new ‘Hunger Games’ by the industry press.

Even more surprisingly, ‘Mrs. Brown’s Boys’ has blown Tom Cruise’s latest sci-fi epic ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ out of the water – making almost two million more in Britain.

Other huge Hollywood productions slain by O’Carroll in the UK include the big budget Muppets sequel ‘Muppets Most Wanted’, ‘300: Rise of An Empire’ and the ‘Robocop’ reboot.

These films have made more overseas, whereas ‘Mrs. Brown’ appeals just to a UK and Irish audience, but it’s still a phenomenal achievement for the British comedy.

‘D’Movie’ cost just £3.6 million to make, compared to ‘Edge of Tomorrow’, which had a £100 million-plus production budget. When advertising and print costs are taken into account, ‘Mrs. Brown’ might well end up more profitable than the Tom Cruise film.

The box office triumph shows once again that O’Carroll is immune to bad reviews. The film wasn’t even screened to critics, and when reviews did emerge they were naturally negative.

O’Carroll told us in an interview last week, “The press are becoming less and less relevant. They really are. And I think they know it themselves.”

“[Mrs Brown’s Boys] has 2.5 million followers [on Twitter and Facebook]. If we put on the internet that we’re starting a new tour, it’s going to sell out. You don’t need to virtually advertise it now.”

The film has followed in the footsteps of two other British comedies in recent years that made successful cinema debuts. Least year Alan Partridge spin-off ‘Alpha Papa’ made £5 million in cinemas – and much more on DVD.

That was dwarfed though by ‘The Inbetweeners Movie’, which earned more than £50 million at the box office - a sequel is following later this year.

Naturally, a follow-up to ‘Mrs. Brown’s Boys D’Movie’ is also already in development.

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The Top 20 Highest Grossing Movies At The UK Box Office In 2014 (so far)

1. The Lego Movie - £32 million
2. X-Men: Days of Future Past - £26 million
3. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - £23 million
4. The Wolf of Wall Street - £21 million
5. 12 Years a Slave - £19 million
6. Captain America: The Winter Soldier - £18 million
7. Maleficent - £17 million
8. Godzilla - £16 million
9. 22 Jump Street - £16 million
10. Neighbours - £15 million
11. Rio 2 - £14 million
12. Mr. Peabody & Sherman - £12 million
13. The Grand Budapest Hotel - £10 million
14. Noah - £10 million
15. Mrs. Brown’s Boys D’Movie - £9 million
16. Non-Stop - £9 million
17. The Other Woman - £8 million
18. The Fault in our Stars - £8 million
19. Robocop - £7 million
20. 300: Rise of An Empire - £7 million