Disney's long awaited sci-fi sequel Tron: Legacy opens in first place at the UK box office going into Christmas but the bad weather helps to deliver the third-lowest weekend of the past year. The big-budget 3D adventure banks just £1.97m to take the crown and knock last week's champion, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader down into second place. Tron: Legacy may not have shattered records but it did do a lot better than its three fellow newcomers; Christina Aguilera's debut Burlesque banks £425k in sixth (perhaps that awful X-Factor appearance wasn't such a good idea after all), with CG animated adventure Animals United pulling in £307k in seventh and Fred: The Movie following in eighth with just £257k.
Elsewhere Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 pushes its total gross to £44.4m, but with weekend takings slipping to six figures it looks likely that Pixar's Toy Story 3 will take the crown for the highest grossing film of 2010. Also on the slide are The Tourist and Megamind, both falling one apiece to fourth and fifth, while Unstoppable and Due Date tumble four places to ninth and tenth respectively.
Number one this time last year: Avatar
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tron: Legacy | £1,970,692 | 1 | £1,970,692 |
| 2 | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | £1,231,568 | 2 | £4,780,624 |
| 3 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | £875,898 | 5 | £44,443,734 |
| 4 | The Tourist | £721,397 | 2 | £2,917,913 |
| 5 | Megamind | £574,205 | 3 | £5,550,002 |
| 6 | Burlesque | £425,931 | 1 | £425,931 |
| 7 | Animals United | £307,409 | 1 | £307,409 |
| 8 | Fred: The Movie | £257,133 | 1 | £257,133 |
| 9 | Unstoppable | £158,869 | 4 | £4,406,402 |
| 10 | Due Date | £75,953 | 7 | £10,516,871 |
Incoming...
The Christmas holidays may seem like a good time for new releases but will that be the case when most of the UK is buried under snow? We shall soon see as a number of films brave the cold in their quest to cash in over the holiday season...
Wednesday sees the release of comedy Meet the Parents: Little Fockers (cert. 12A) followed by family adventure Arthur and His Greatest Adventures (cert. TBC) on Christmas Eve. Meanwhile Boxing Day welcomes Peter Weir's latest epic The Way Back (cert. 12A), Hideo Nakata's Brit thriller Chatroom (cert. 15) and the Jack Black 3D adventure Gulliver's Travels (cert. PG), with romantic comedy Love and Other Drugs (cert. 15) following on the 29th.
U.K. Box Office Archive
No comments:
Post a Comment