Debuting straight in at the top of the chart is A Christmas Carol from director Robert Zemeckis, with the 3D motion-capture tale banking just under £2m and failing to reach the heights of Zemeckis' previous motion-capture efforts, The Polar Express and Beowulf. Despite this rather unimpressive opening, the film should continue to attract an audience in the run up to Christmas (or at least until Avatar dominates 3D screens on December 18th). Falling to second after dropping half its audience from last week is music documentary Michael Jackson's This Is It, while Pixar's Up also suffered as a result of losing a chunk of 3D screens to A Christmas Carol and falls one place to finish third on its fifth week of release. Up has now crossed the £30m mark and still has a chance to overtake Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs in the battle for the UK's highest grossing animated movie of the year (and second-highest grossing movie overall).
Heading up the three new releases in this week's chart is comedy The Men Who Stare at Goats (in fourth with £1.2m), while alien abduction flick The Fourth Kind props up the top half of the chart in fifth position. Less fortunate are Megan Fox's latest Jennifer's Body, which banks a meagre £736k over the Wednesday-Sunday period to finish one spot behind Fantastic Mr Fox in seventh place. Meanwhile, Saw VI continues its decline as it falls four places to finish eighth, with coming-of-age drama An Education and comedy Couples Retreat rounding out the chart in ninth and tenth respectively.
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Christmas Carol | £1,917,539 | 1 | £1,917,539 |
| 2 | Michael Jackson's This Is It | £1,355,855 | 2 | £8,114,380 |
| 3 | Up | £1,293,662 | 5 | £31,403,801 |
| 4 | The Men Who Stare at Goats | £1,211,791 | 1 | £1,211,791 |
| 5 | The Fourth Kind | £851,476 | 1 | £851,476 |
| 6 | Fantastic Mr Fox | £784,233 | 3 | £6,831,974 |
| 7 | Jennifer's Body | £736,535 | 1 | £736,535 |
| 8 | Saw VI | £345,570 | 3 | £4,684,976 |
| 9 | An Education | £283,080 | 2 | £960,875 |
| 10 | Couples Retreat | £213,883 | 4 | £5,418,638 |
Incoming...
British thriller Harry Brown opens this Wednesday and stars Michael Caine as an ex-serviceman looking to avenge his best friend's murder, while on Friday Roland Emmerich will once again destroy the world with the director's latest disaster movie 2012.
Friday also sees the release of biopic Amelia, featuring Hilary Swank as famous pilot Amelia Earhart alongside Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor and Christopher Eccleston, in addition to comedy drama Cold Souls and Ang Lee music comedy Taking Woodstock.
U.K. Box Office Archive
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