The latest adaptation from US author Stephenie Meyer's bestselling vampire romance series, The Twight Saga: New Moon jumps straight to the top of the UK box office with a blockbuster haul of £11,683,158. Banking more than four times the debut weekend of last year's Twilight (and already beating out its entire box office run), New Moon's opening is second only to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince this year. Despite the heavy opening for New Moon, two other films also enjoyed healthy weekends; in second place Roland Emmerich disaster-overload 2012 scoops another £3.5m to push its two-week gross close to £13m, while Disney's A Christmas Carol tops its debut weekend for the second week running and looks set to dig in for the festive season. Michael Caine vigilante effort Harry Brown and Pixar's smash-hit Up round out the top five, although both earned considerably less than the films above them.
Joel and Ethan Coen's latest dark comedy A Serious Man received only a limited release but managed to beat out Steven Soderbergh's The Informant! by two places to open in seventh, despite playing on half the screens and without a star name such as Matt Damon to headline. Elsewhere in the chart Wes Anderson's version of the Roald Dahl classic Fantastic Mr. Fox holds onto sixth spot for the third consecutive week, with comedy The Men Who Stare at Goats slipping two places to seventh and alien abduction thriller The Fourth Kind remaining stationary in ninth.
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Twilight Saga: New Moon | £11,683,158 | 1 | £11,683,158 |
| 2 | 2012 | £3,496,202 | 2 | £12,923,681 |
| 3 | A Christmas Carol | £2,224,044 | 3 | £8,553,363 |
| 4 | Harry Brown | £724,627 | 2 | £2,704,205 |
| 5 | Up | £642,134 | 7 | £33,561,384 |
| 6 | Fantastic Mr Fox | £454,088 | 5 | £8,289,695 |
| 7 | The Men Who Stare at Goats | £430,319 | 3 | £3,613,831 |
| 8 | A Serious Man | £321,114 | 1 | £321,114 |
| 9 | The Fourth Kind | £181,105 | 3 | £2,251,107 |
| 10 | The Informant! | £179,612 | 1 | £179,612 |
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Oren Peli's low-budget US smash hit Paranormal Activity finally makes its way to UK screens this Wednesday and will look to capitalise on its hype to stand as the main challenger to New Moon's dominance at the top of the box office. Meanwhile on Friday, director F. Gary Gray releases his latest crime thriller Law Abiding Citizen starring Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx, along with family comedy Nativity, featuring a host of British talent including Martin Freeeman, Ashley Jensen, Pam Ferris, Ricky Tomlinson and Alan Carr.
U.K. Box Office Archive
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