Hot weather, World Cup football and a lack of major new releases combined to strike a hefty blow to the UK box office this past weekend. Only one film managed to break seven figures with Sex and the City 2 taking top spot for the third week in a row and pushing its total gross towards £17.5m (still some £9m shy of the 2008 original), while romantic drama Letters to Juliet was the biggest new opener in second place with just £793k. 'Brit-hit' StreetDance 3D (which crosses the £10m mark in its fourth weekend) and Disney's underperforming big-budget video game adaptation Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time both slip one place apiece to third and fourth, with the top five rounded out by director Antoine Fuqua's latest crime thriller Brooklyn's Finest.
In the bottom half of the chart comedy remake Death at a Funeral and rom-com She's Out of My League are down two spots each from their positions last week (occupying fifth and ninth respectively), while family adventure Tooth Fairy leapfrogs Ridley Scott epic Robin Hood to take seventh. With Iron Man 2 slipping out of contention, Robin Hood has now spent the most weeks in the top ten but tumbles three places to eighth, a feat matched by Brit thriller 4.3.2.1 in tenth.
Number one this time last year: The Hangover
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sex and the City 2 | £1,489,833 | 3 | £17,418,854 |
| 2 | Letters to Juliet | £793,425 | 1 | £793,425 |
| 3 | StreetDance 3D | £715,317 | 4 | £10,227,673 |
| 4 | Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time | £507,855 | 4 | £7,373,367 |
| 5 | Brooklyn's Finest | £468,279 | 1 | £468,279 |
| 6 | Death at a Funeral | £414,711 | 2 | £1,562,459 |
| 7 | Tooth Fairy | £367,396 | 3 | £3,053,104 |
| 8 | Robin Hood | £362,397 | 5 | £14,397,521 |
| 9 | She's Out of My League | £175,920 | 2 | £893,336 |
| 10 | 4.3.2.1 | £132,048 | 2 | £799,634 |
Incoming...
This may have been the worst weekend in over a year but it could face competition for that dubious honour in the not too distant future...
The big midweek release this week is the Aston Kutcher / Katherine Heigl action rom-com Killers (cert. 12A), which has adopted the "unusual marketing ploy" of relying on social networking sites for promotion rather than preview screenings for critics (director Robert Luketic describes the move as "an experiment we decided to do", rather than just coming out and saying it's wank).
If that's not enough, another two action comedies arrive on Friday - MacGruber (cert. 15), based on the Saturday Night Live sketch character portrayed by Will Forte, and Brit effort Wild Target (cert. 12A) featuring Bill Nighy, Emily Blunt and Rupert Grint.
If you fancy something a bit different, well you're just out of luck for this week I'm afraid.
U.K. Box Office Archive
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