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Filmmaker Kym Staton believed in Julian Assange’s story and what’s more, he believed it deserved to be told on the big screen. Few others did. “Every distributor I spoke to said, ‘It’s not worth doing theatrical. It won’t work. Cinemas don’t want it – you’re not going to make anything. It’ll take three to six months even for them to book it in. None of this was the case at all.” The Trust Fall: Julian Assange was a passion-driven project...

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Rank Film (distributor) Three-day gross (May 3-5) Total gross to date Week 1. Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes (Disney) £3.2m £3.8m 1 2. The Fall Guy (Universal) £948,970 £6.7m 2 3. Challengers (Warner Bros) £333,125 £4.7m 3 4. Back To Black (Studiocanal) £211,104 £11.3m 5 5. Tarot (Sony) £140,983 £923,013 2

Gbp to Usd conversion rate: 1.25

Disney’s Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes topped the UK and Ireland box office with £3.2m, with warm weather possibly deterring cinemagoers.

The fourth instalment in the Planet Of The Apes reboot series, and the first of a planned trilogy, swung into 650 cinemas for a £4,923 location average and made £3.8m overall including previews.

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Universal’s “The Fall Guy” debuted atop the U.K. and Ireland box office with £3.5 million ($4.5 million), according to numbers from Comscore.

But the force was strong with Disney’s 25th anniversary rerelease of “Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace,” as it debuted in second place with £1.1 million. This, when added to the £56.4 million grossed when it originally released in 1999, makes the film neck-and-neck with “Joker” at No. 30 on the all-time box office chart for the territory.

In its second weekend, Warner Bros.’ “Challengers,” headlined by Zendaya, moved down to third place with £986,885 for a total of £3.6 million. In fourth position, in its fourth weekend, Studiocanal’s “Back to Black” added £770,973 for a total of £10.5 million.

Rounding off the top five was Univeral’s “Kung Fu Panda 4,” which earned £562,704 in its sixth weekend for a total of £20.4 million.

There were two more debuts in the Top 10. Sony...