Continuing the streak of new releases debuting at the top of the UK box office, Night at the Museum 2 opened in first place with a healthy gross of £4.1m in receipts. The Ben Stiller comedy sequel also repeated this success across the pond, beating out Terminator: Salvation to top spot in the North American charts. Meanwhile Star Trek slipped down into third place behind Angels & Demons, but has now overtaken the total gross of X-Men Origins: Wolverine despite the mutant superhero film having a week head start in cinemas. Star Trek now becomes the highest grossing movie in the top ten with Monsters vs Aliens slipping out of the chart after seven weeks on release.
Despite takings continuing to plunge Wolverine managed to hold on to the same position as last week, with the animated adaptation of British author Neil Gaiman's Coraline dropping two places from third to fifth. Hannah Montana: The Movie and Fighting each fell one spot into sixth and seventh respectively, while the newly released Brit horror-comedy Tormented pulled in £284,757, making it the eighth most popular film of the weekend.
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past and State of Play remain in the top ten (with the Russell Crowe / Ben Affleck political thriller now stretching to seven weeks in the chart) but there was no room for Zac Efron comedy 17 Again, which disappeared without a trace.
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Night at the Museum 2 | £4,160,496 | 1 | £4,160,496 |
| 2 | Angels & Demons | £2,453,169 | 2 | £11,020,395 |
| 3 | Star Trek | £1,645,238 | 3 | £15,396,776 |
| 4 | X-Men Origins: Wolverine | £459,405 | 4 | £15,188,597 |
| 5 | Coraline | £458,178 | 3 | £4,971,782 |
| 6 | Hannah Montana: The Movie | £413,218 | 4 | £6,604,938 |
| 7 | Fighting | £299,196 | 2 | £1,680,366 |
| 8 | Tormented | £284,757 | 1 | £284,757 |
| 9 | Ghosts of Girlfriends Past | £162,926 | 4 | £3,911,374 |
| 10 | State of Play | £88,895 | 5 | £5,405,100 |
It seems like Wednesday is the new Friday in UK cinemas with two new releases hitting screens May 27th. Sam Raimi returns to the genre where he made his name with horror flick Drag Me to Hell (view the trailer here), and WWE star John Cena hopes to put the ghost of The Marine to rest with his latest actioner 12 Rounds, directed by Renny Harlin. Also released is the Fatal Attraction-type thriller Obsessed, starring Idris Elba, Beyonce Knowles and Ali Larter, along with Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience.
Drag Me to Hell should do good business but don't expect the other new releases to cause too many ripples in the box office chart once the dust settles this upcoming weekend.
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