No surprises at the top of the UK box office this weekend as Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince cast a spell over cinemagoers and destroyed the competition with an astronomical opening just shy of £20m (£11.93m Fri-Sun, with an extra £7.85m from Wednesday and Thursday screenings). Potter’s debut haul is more than double that of the previous biggest opener of 2009, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and the boy wizard is already just £5m away from becoming the highest grossing movie of the year in the U.K. after less than one week on release.
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs stands firm in second place, having crossed the £20m mark after three weeks, while last week’s number one movie Bruno drops two places to third with overall receipts of £10m. Todd Phillips’ comedy The Hangover continues to demonstrate staying power and is yet to fall below fourth place after six weeks in cinemas. Meanwhile, Michael Bay’s much criticised Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen drops two spots to fifth, while gangster epic Public Enemies and emotional drama My Sister’s Keeper each slip one place apiece from last week.
Neatly coinciding with the fortieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landings, director Duncan Jones’ (a.k.a Zowie Bowie) debut feature Moon opens in eighth position despite a limited release on only 57 screens - less than a third of nearest rival Year One, which sits one place below in ninth – while Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian falls to tenth after nine long weeks in the chart.
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | £19,784,924 | 1 | £19,784,924 |
| 2 | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | £2,849,981 | 3 | £20,283,183 |
| 3 | Bruno | £2,301,432 | 2 | £10,357,495 |
| 4 | The Hangover | £881,514 | 6 | £18,142,083 |
| 5 | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | £678,743 | 5 | £24,919,977 |
| 6 | Public Enemies | £470,651 | 3 | £5,728,410 |
| 7 | My Sister's Keeper | £378,680 | 4 | £4,955,541 |
| 8 | Moon | £157,867 | 1 | £157,867 |
| 9 | Year One | £53,033 | 4 | £2,776,236 |
| 10 | Night at the Museum 2 | £49,570 | 9 | £19,560,553 |
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With the blockbuster season almost at a close Disney will be hoping (rather optimistically) that the Sandra Bullock – Ryan Reynolds rom-com The Proposal can offer an alternative to Harry Potter when it opens on Wednesday. Meanwhile Lars von Trier’s controversial horror Antichrist hits screens on Friday, along with limited re-releases for classics Once Upon a Time in the West and The Blues Brothers.
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