Despite stiff competition from DreamWorks Animation’s latest 3D CG comedy Megamind, box office bohemoth Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 holds on to top spot for the third consecutive weekend here in the UK. Deathly Hallows adds another £3.7m to push its total to £39.1m (a series high over seventeen days), leaving Megamind to settle for second with a £2.8m opening including £900k of previews. Tony Scott’s latest actioner Unstoppable falls one place to third, with Todd Phillips’ road-movie comedy Due Date holding onto fourth and creeping ever closer to the £10m mark in its fifth weekend. Meanwhile Gareth Edwards' low budget sci-fi romance Monsters enjoys a decent fifth-placed debut, pulling in £348k from just 164 screens.
George Clooney thriller The American leads the bottom half of the chart as it drops one place from last time out, while Colin Farrell / Keira Knightley crime flick London Boulevard plunges four spots to seventh. Both Despicable Me and The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest fall two places apiece to eighth and ninth, with new release The Warrior’s Way propping up the top ten with an opening of £105k.
Number one this time last year: Paranormal Activity
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | £3,739,781 | 3 | £39,145,114 |
| 2 | Megamind | £2,827,502 | 1 | £2,827,502 |
| 3 | Unstoppable | £859,205 | 2 | £3,146,343 |
| 4 | Due Date | £391,284 | 5 | £9,859,973 |
| 5 | Monsters | £348,577 | 1 | £348,577 |
| 6 | The American | £286,072 | 2 | £921,526 |
| 7 | London Boulevard | £254,134 | 2 | £1,060,505 |
| 8 | Despicable Me | £136,358 | 8 | £19,447,589 |
| 9 | The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest | £113,958 | 2 | £438,761 |
| 10 | The Warrior's Way | £105,389 | 1 | £105,389 |
Incoming...
The big release this coming Thursday is The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (cert. PG), which will be hoping to lure some of Harry Potter's audience away with the added attraction of 3D. It's been a while since the last family friendly live-action 3D release (or at least it seems that way, what with 2010 being the year of 3D cash-ins) and Dawn Treader could put up a strong challenge for top spot.
Also opening this coming Friday is the Johnny Depp / Angelina Jolie romantic thriller The Tourist (cert. TBC), along with Sofia Coppola's Somewhere (cert. 15) and Bollywood crime comedy No Problem (cert. TBC).
U.K. Box Office Archive
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