For the first time since October 2008 there wasn't a single film in the UK box office chart to surpass the £1m mark, with the Will Ferrell / Mark Wahlberg buddy-cop comedy The Other Guys holding on to top spot for the third consecutive week with just £976k. Ben Affleck's highly-rated second directorial effort The Town climbs one place to take second in its second weekend, while Ryan Reynolds thriller Buried is the highest new entry of the week in third with £820k. Julia Roberts drama Eat Pray Love slips two places to fourth with supernatural thriller The Hole (in 3D!) rounding out the top five after falling one position from last weekend.
Despite positive reviews Brit flick Made in Dagenham opened to less-than-expected numbers and has to settle for sixth place with £674k, while the 25th anniversary re-release of Robert Zemeckis' time-travelling classic Back to the Future pulled in a decent £461k to take seventh. Pixar's Toy Story 3 continues to creep towards the foot of the chart after twelve long weeks in UK cinemas and falls to eighth this week, ahead of Devil and Grown Ups in ninth and tenth respectively.
Number one this time last year: Fame
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Other Guys | £976,459 | 3 | £6,030,653 |
| 2 | The Town | £890,309 | 2 | £2,611,742 |
| 3 | Buried | £820,631 | 1 | £820,631 |
| 4 | Eat Pray Love | £800,533 | 2 | £2,865,695 |
| 5 | The Hole | £700,763 | 2 | £1,881,312 |
| 6 | Made in Dagenham | £674,059 | 1 | £674,059 |
| 7 | Back to the Future | £461,194 | 1 | £461,194 |
| 8 | Toy Story 3 | £413,759 | 11 | £72,944,299 |
| 9 | Devil | £332,949 | 3 | £2,488,305 |
| 10 | Grown Ups | £302,196 | 6 | £7,372,455 |
Incoming...
Michael Douglas returns to his iconic role as ruthless businessman Gordon Gecko in Oliver Stone's long-awaited sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (cert. 12A), which is the big release this coming Friday. Also hitting screens is Howard Marks biopic Mr. Nice (cert. 18) starring Rhys Ifans as the former drug-smuggling kingpin, along with Zac Efron drama Charlie St. Cloud (cert. 12A), Josh Duhamel / Kathrine Heigl rom-com Life As We Know It (cert. 12A), and Euro-animation A Town Called Panic (cert. PG).
U.K. Box Office Archive
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