The U.K. chart enjoyed a healthy shake-up with five new releases debuting in the top ten this past weekend but Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince continues to dominate after three weeks on release. Having banked over £40m so far, the sixth installment in the popular wizarding franchise is the clear front-runner for the highest grossing film of the year and should also crack the all-time U.K. top ten in the next week or two. Two new entries - 3D gerbil action comedy G-Force and crime thriller remake The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 - opened in second and third respectively, pushing last week’s second-placed picture The Proposal down two places to fourth. Also dropping two places to fifth is the animated hit Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, which now stands just short of £30m in receipts after five weeks on U.K. screens but seems to have lost a big chunk of the 3D market to G-Force.
Three other new releases occupy spaces in the bottom half of the chart - Will Ferrell comedy adventure Land of the Lost (in sixth place with £643k, giving Ferrell his lowest opening since 2006’s Stranger Than Fiction), French biopic Coco Before Chanel (in ninth with £423k), and Bollywood release Love Aaj Kal (in tenth, but with the highest screen average of the weekend after collecting £406k from just 52 screens).
Meanwhile, hit comedies Bruno and The Hangover both managed to cling on to spots in the chart despite falling three places apiece, but there was no room for Antichrist, Moon, My Sister’s Keeper, Public Enemies, and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, all of which disappeared as a result of the new releases.
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | £2,917,786 | 3 | £40,537,578 |
| 2 | G-Force | £2,478,524 | 1 | £2,478,524 |
| 3 | The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 | £1,784,719 | 1 | £1,784,719 |
| 4 | The Proposal | £1,489,268 | 2 | £6,886,749 |
| 5 | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | £1,143,211 | 5 | £29,154,739 |
| 6 | Land of the Lost | £642,553 | 1 | £642,553 |
| 7 | Bruno | £612,577 | 4 | £14,729,716 |
| 8 | The Hangover | £517,895 | 8 | £20,603,489 |
| 9 | Coco Before Chanel | £423,268 | 1 | £423,268 |
| 10 | Love Aaj Kal | £405,673 | 1 | £405,673 |
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Paramount and Hasbro release their second live-action big screen adaptation this coming Friday with the Stephen Sommers directed G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. Rather surprisingly the film has generated quite a few positive reviews and will look to challenge Harry Potter for the prestigious top spot in the chart.
Also released is romantic comedy The Ugly Truth, starring Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler, alongside thriller The Orphan and Irish drama W.C.
U.K. Box Office Archive
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