The UK box office is once again dominated by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as it easily retains its grip of the chart in first place with £8.3m. Having banked in excess of £33m in just over a week, The Deathly Hallows has overtaken Shrek Forever After to become the fourth highest grossing film of 2010 and could put up a strong challenge against Toy Story 3 for top spot by the time it finishes its run. Unlike Harry Potter, the rest of the films in the top ten weren't so safe with five new releases debuting in the chart this week. Pick of the bunch is the Tony Scott / Denzel Washington action thriller Unstoppable, which leads the way in second place with £1.7m, while crime drama London Boulevard pulls in just a fraction of that figure but its £577k return is enough claim third. Elsewhere George Clooney thriller The American takes fifth position, with The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest and Machete landing in seventh and tenth respectively.
Turning to the familiar faces, road movie comedy Due Date falls two places to fourth and CG-animated comedy Despicable Me finally drops out of the top three in its seventh weekend, slipping three spots to sixth. Also down three is Jackass 3D in eighth, while sci-fi thriller Skyline suffers the steepest decline as it plunges five places to ninth.
Number one this time last year: The Twilight Saga: New Moon
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | £8,344,776 | 2 | £33,257,880 |
| 2 | Unstoppable | £1,714,871 | 1 | £1,714,871 |
| 3 | London Boulevard | £577,224 | 1 | £577,224 |
| 4 | Due Date | £560,179 | 4 | £9,208,287 |
| 5 | The American | £411,707 | 1 | £411,707 |
| 6 | Despicable Me | £241,944 | 7 | £19,394,633 |
| 7 | The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest | £219,259 | 1 | £219,259 |
| 8 | Jackass 3D | £119,369 | 4 | £5,437,656 |
| 9 | Skyline | £92,931 | 3 | £2,645,267 |
| 10 | Machete | £90,423 | 1 | £90,423 |
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With Harry Potter settling for a 2D release and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader yet to hit screens for another week, DreamWorks will look to capture some of the lucrative 3D market this coming weekend with animated superhero comedy Megamind (cert. PG), which hits screens on Friday.
Also released are a duo of British efforts: comedy The Be All and End All (cert. 15) [review] and alien invasion road movie Monsters (cert. 12A) [review], along with the Finnish fantasy Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (cert. 15) and horseracing drama Secretariat (cert. U).
U.K. Box Office Archive
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