The UK box office chart enjoyed a healthy shake-up this past weekend with half of the top ten occupied by new faces. Top of the pile is supernatural sequel Paranormal Activity 2, which bags top spot with £3.7m, just a shade higher than the original Paranormal Activity pulled in when it opened in second place back in November 2009. Bruce Willis action-ensemble Red banks £1.6m to take third ahead of last week's number one Despicable Me, which has amassed a decent £7.5m after just two weekends on release. Also on the decline is David Fincher's The Social Network (slipping two spots to fourth), while new Superman director Zack Snyder enjoys a fifth-placed opening for his animated fantasy Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole.
The bottom half of the chart plays host to remaining newcomers Alpha and Omega (the CG animated family adventure taking sixth despite awful reviews) and high school rom-com Easy A, with Vampires Suck sandwiched between them in seventh, down four places from last weekend. Life As We Know It goes one better and falls five to ninth, while the steepest drop is reserved for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, which crashes sixth places to prop the up the chart in tenth.
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| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paranormal Activity 2 | £3,764,722 | 1 | £3,764,722 |
| 2 | Despicable Me | £2,589,170 | 2 | £7,585,348 |
| 3 | Red | £1,662,472 | 1 | £1,662,472 |
| 4 | The Social Network | £1,538,571 | 2 | £5,359,109 |
| 5 | Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole | £737,444 | 1 | £737,444 |
| 6 | Alpha and Omega | £643,425 | 1 | £643,425 |
| 7 | Vampires Suck | £530,136 | 2 | £2,024,809 |
| 8 | Easy A | £277,975 | 1 | £277,975 |
| 9 | Life As We Know It | £263,134 | 3 | £2,919,246 |
| 10 | Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps | £258,968 | 3 | £3,698,077 |
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The Saw franchise makes its annual appearance just in time for Halloween with Saw 3D (cert. 18), which hits screens this coming Friday and promises to be the final installment in the series (please!). However, if you're absolutely sick to the back teeth of the franchise then alternatives include a pair of comedy dramas - The Kids Are All Right (cert. TBC) and Donkeys (cert. 15) - along with John Landis' new comedy Burke and Hare (cert. 15), featuring Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Isla Fisher, Tim Curry and Christopher Lee.
U.K. Box Office Archive
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