Michael Jackson's This Is It - the music documentary chronicling the rehearsal stage of the late singer's planned 50-date run at London's O2 - debuts at number one with five-day takings of £4,877,255, while banking in excess of $100m world-wide. Already the UK's second-highest grossing documentary (and biggest concert film), it looks a cert to overtake Michael Moore's Farenheit 9/11 for top spot during its limited run. In second, Pixar's box office smash Up (read our review here) adds another £10m in receipts over the holiday week to storm towards the £30m mark and should challenge Ice Age 3 for second place in the year's top earners. Also benefitting from the school holidays, Roald Dahl adaptation Fantastic Mr. Fox hangs on to third from last weekend (although Halloween did little to save Saw VI slipping two places to finish fourth), while another book-to-screen effort, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, also remains stationary in fifth.
Three new releases appear in the bottom half of the chart this week: animated sci-fi adventure 9 in seventh, Nick Hornby-scripted coming of age drama An Education in eighth, and Brit thriller Dead Man Running (starring Danny Dyer and 50 Cent) in tenth. Filling out the gaps is comedy Couples Retreat (down two places from last weekend to sixth) and Terry Gilliam fantasy The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (down four to tenth).
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Michael Jackson's This Is It | £4,877,255 | 1 | £4,877,255 |
| 2 | Up | £3,443,130 | 4 | £29,156,179 |
| 3 | Fantastic Mr Fox | £1,545,325 | 2 | £5,589,484 |
| 4 | Saw VI | £940,505 | 2 | £3,777,930 |
| 5 | Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant | £544,676 | 2 | £2,304,738 |
| 6 | Couples Retreat | £500,258 | 3 | £4,876,825 |
| 7 | 9 | £468,455 | 1 | £468,455 |
| 8 | An Education | £399,122 | 1 | £399,122 |
| 9 | The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus | £323,294 | 3 | £2,891,670 |
| 10 | Dead Man Running | £198,442 | 1 | £198,442 |
Incoming...
Megan Fox's new film Jennifer's Body opens on Wednesday, while Robert Zemeckis will be hoping Christmas comes early on Friday with the release of his latest motion-capture effort A Christmas Carol, starring Jim Carrey.
Also hitting screens in a busy weekend are British gang drama 1 Day, comedy The Men Who Stare at Goats (featuring George Clooney, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey), alien abduction flick The Fourth Kind, and romantic drama Bright Star.
U.K. Box Office Archive
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