Justin Bieber may be a worldwide pop phenomenon but he was no match for the comic pairing of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost at the UK box office as Superbad director Gregg Mottola's sci-fi comedy Paul opened at the top of the chart with £5.5m, giving it the largest UK opening so far this year (although that figure was boosted by four days of preview screenings, which accounts for £2.3m of the 'weekend' haul). Meanwhile Bieber documentary Never Say Never amassed just £820k to settle for a rather disappointing ninth place, with fellow newcomer Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son fairing a little better in fifth with £1.4m.
As a result of Paul's first-placed debut, last week's top two films - animation Gnomeo and Juliet and Oscar hopeful The King's Speech - both fall one place apiece, with The King's Speech still yet to slip below the top three as it pushes its cumulative gross to £37.1m in its seventh weekend. The Coen brothers' Western remake True Grit holds firm in fourth, while live-action / CG-hybrid Yogi Bear drops one place to sixth. Also on the decline are Just Go With It (down two to eighth) and Black Swan (down three to tenth), but the steepest slide is reserved for Disney animation Tangled, which plunges four places to seventh but manages to push its total gross beyond the £15m mark.
Number one this time last year: Avatar
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paul | £5,517,121 | 1 | £5,517,121 |
| 2 | Gnomeo and Juliet | £2,223,978 | 2 | £6,373,301 |
| 3 | The King's Speech | £1,685,180 | 7 | £37,127,599 |
| 4 | True Grit | £1,466,979 | 2 | £4,558,297 |
| 5 | Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son | £1,433,778 | 1 | £1,433,778 |
| 6 | Yogi Bear | £1,370,585 | 2 | £3,862,364 |
| 7 | Tangled | £1,295,709 | 4 | £15,347,419 |
| 8 | Just Go With It | £984,355 | 2 | £3,766,707 |
| 9 | Justin Bieber: Never Say Never | £820,592 | 1 | £820,592 |
| 10 | Black Swan | £693,332 | 5 | £14,277,599 |
Incoming...
Competition for the top spot could be fierce this weekend as the latest sci-fi actioner from Disturbia and Eagle Eye director D.J. Caruso, I Am Number Four (cert. 12A) arrives on Wednesday, giving it two days of previews to help mount a challenge to Paul. Also looking to get in on the act is over-the-top Nicolas Cage actioner Drive Angry 3D (cert. 18), Austrialian crime drama Animal Kingdom (cert. 15) and supernatural thriller The Rite (cert. 15), along with East is East sequel West is West (cert. 15).
U.K. Box Office Archive
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