later, and then slipping back a notch in its third week of play. Declines in box office are a relatively modest 36% and 26%. As for About Time, that's just ahead of the cumulative total of Curtis's previous feature, The Boat That Rocked, and with a bit more life in it still.

The local hit

Arriving in the rest of the UK this Friday, Filth has already landed in Scottish cinemas, where the weekend saw the Irvine Welsh adaptation achieve a nifty £248,000 from 38 cinemas, delivering a strong site average of £6,523. That's a massive improvement on the result of the last film adapted from a book by the Scottish author: Irvine Welsh's Ecstasy debuted in April 2012, with £26,500 from 56 venues. Distributor Lionsgate will be hoping forfurther cheer south of the border this weekend, but in Scotland it faces a particular challenge from Proclaimers musical Sunshine on Leith, albeit significantly different in audience profile and appeal.

The foreign-language hit

Despite never having cracked the box-office top 10 – or in fact the top 15 – on any weekend, Paolo Sorrentino's The Great Beauty has quietly been mopping up the arthouse audience, providing one of 2013's rare foreign-language hits. The latest frame, the film's fourth, has delivered another £50,000, taking the cumulative total to £610,000. This is already more than five times the film's opening weekend gross (£117,000), and is also the third best non-Bollywood foreign-language result of the year so far, behind Pedro Almodóvar's I'm So Excited (£848,000) and François Ozon's In the House (£827,000). Other