Pixar's latest animated blockbuster Up continues to excel at the UK box office, retaining its number one position with a lofty haul of £5,162,325 to push its total gross towards £14m in just two short weeks. With the school holidays fast approaching the 3D movie should continue its impressive form, however it will have to overcome Roald Dahl adaptation Fantastic Mr. Fox, along with competition from Saw VI for 3D screens. If it can maintain the momentum then Up could end up the second highest grossing film of the year behind Harry Potter.Four new releases appear in the chart this week, with Vince Vaughn's new comedy Couples Retreat the pick of the bunch in second with £1.8m. Banking just half of that to place third was Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, featuring the late Heath Ledger in his final screen performance, while Australian horror Triangle and Bollywood action film Blue (India's most expensive film at $21m) could only manage seventh and tenth respectively.
Elsewhere in the chart Ricky Gervais comedy The Invention of Lying falls to fourth in its third week and horror comedy Zombieland drops three places to round out the top five. Dance remake Fame and Rob Zombie remake-sequel Halloween II both slip two spots from last week to sixth and eighth, while Jennifer Aniston's Love Happens takes the most damage as it plummets from fifth to ninth.
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Up | £5,162,325 | 2 | £13,917,468 |
| 2 | Couples Retreat | £1,825,142 | 1 | £1,825,142 |
| 3 | The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus | £905,786 | 1 | £905,786 |
| 4 | The Invention of Lying | £589,914 | 3 | £4,847,173 |
| 5 | Zombieland | £576,932 | 2 | £2,340,592 |
| 6 | Fame | £455,699 | 4 | £7,876,009 |
| 7 | Triangle | £260,626 | 1 | £260,626 |
| 8 | Halloween II | £237,429 | 2 | £1,067,107 |
| 9 | Love Happens | £217,696 | 2 | £1,124,159 |
| 10 | Blue | £215,962 | 1 | £215,962 |
Incoming...
Looking to challenge Pixar's Up is the stop-motion animation Fantastic Mr. Fox (based on Roald Dahl's classic children's book), which sees a release this coming Friday. Also hitting screens is young adult book adaptation Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, Bollywood adventure Aladin, and Entourage star Jeremy Piven's new comedy The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard.
U.K. Box Office Archive
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