Opening on Monday 21st to get a head-start at the UK box office, family comedy Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel jumps straight in at number one to lead the final chart of 2009 with £5,347,191. In second place, James Cameron's sci-fi epic Avatar collects another £3.8m to push its total UK gross close to £18.5m in just two weeks (with cumulative world-wide receipts of $640m+ in that same timeframe), while Guy Ritchie's action-adventure take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic sleuth Sherlock Holmes manages to bank £3m to place third despite only opening on Boxing Day (Saturday). Highly-rated Bollywood comedy drama 3 Idiots manages an impressive fourth-placed opening with £437,544 from just 53 screens, while Brit comedy sequel St. Trinians 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold slips three places to finish fifth in its second week of release. Rob Marshall-directed musical Nine, which is highly tipped for awards success, enters the top ten at the second time of asking after a limited release last week ahead of newly-released John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy in seventh.
Plumetting five spots from last week, A Christmas Carol looks to have about run its course after a strong eight weeks that has seen the motion-capture animation bank almost £20m, making it far and away the most successful of Robert Zemeckis' recent CGI offerings. Also hanging on for dear life are The Twilight Saga: New Moon (with £26m+ from five weeks) and Law Abiding Citizen (£5.7m from six weeks), while Nativity!, Planet 51, Where The Wild Things Are, Paranormal Activity and 2012 are less fortunate and all slip from the top ten.
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel | £5,347,191 | 1 | £5,347,191 |
| 2 | Avatar | £3,828,123 | 2 | £18,404,659 |
| 3 | Sherlock Holmes | £3,081,072 | 1 | £3,081,072 |
| 4 | 3 Idiots | £437,554 | 1 | £437,554 |
| 5 | St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold | £436,296 | 2 | £3,385,830 |
| 6 | Nine | £269,447 | 2 | £338,095 |
| 7 | Nowhere Boy | £148,157 | 1 | £148,157 |
| 8 | A Christmas Carol | £131,033 | 8 | £19,595,369 |
| 9 | The Twilight Saga: New Moon | £129,777 | 5 | £26,272,710 |
| 10 | Law Abiding Citizen | £98,898 | 6 | £5,736,117 |
Incoming...
There's little to write home about in the way of new releases for the first weekend of 2010, with Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker leading the way with romantic-comedy drama Did You Hear About the Morgans?, along with Brit drama Toby's Odyssey and comedy Post Grad, all of which open on New Year's Day.
U.K. Box Office Archive
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