In a very healthy weekend for UK cinemas last week's number one picture The Twilight Saga: New Moon experienced a drop of 63% but still pulls in an impressive £4.3m to retain its crown at the top of the chart. The vampire romance has crossed the £20m mark in just 10 days, forcing low-budget frightener Paranormal Activity to make do with a second-place debut after finally hitting British screens and banking £3.5m. In all, five films managed to break seven figures with Robert Zemeckis' 3D motion-capture adaptation of Dickens' A Christmas Carol defying the odds once again by topping its opening haul three weeks in a row to retain third place. Roland Emmerich's 2012 added another £1.8m but falls two places to fourth ahead of newly released thriller Law Abiding Citizen, with the Gerard Butler actioner banking a decent £1.4m to eclipse his other recent effort, Gamer.
Elsewhere, family comedy Nativity! heads the bottom half of the chart in its first week ahead of fellow British effort Harry Brown, which falls three places to finish seventh. Also dropping three is Pixar smash-hit Up, which finally looks to be slipping out of contention in the top ten after a strong run that should see it top £35m. Indian comedy De Dana Dhan opens in ninth with £308,209 (excellent numbers for a Bollywood film given its 165-minute running time), while the Coen brothers' A Serious Man props up the chart in tenth after falling from eighth last week.
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Twilight Saga: New Moon | £4,303,257 | 2 | £20,320,686 |
| 2 | Paranormal Activity | £3,593,762 | 1 | £3,593,762 |
| 3 | A Christmas Carol | £1,935,283 | 4 | £11,333,978 |
| 4 | 2012 | £1,834,817 | 3 | £16,217,379 |
| 5 | Law Abiding Citizen | £1,488,143 | 1 | £1,488,143 |
| 6 | Nativity! | £794,314 | 1 | £794,314 |
| 7 | Harry Brown | £333,459 | 3 | £3,519,275 |
| 8 | Up | £327,174 | 8 | £33,963,586 |
| 9 | De Dana Dhan | £308,029 | 1 | £308,029 |
| 10 | A Serious Man | £243,964 | 2 | £744,239 |
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Paranormal Activity should face some stiff genre competition this coming week with The Descent: Part 2 (which sees Jon Harris take over directing duties from Neil Marshall) released this Wednesday and Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly's latest The Box (starring Cameron Diaz and James Marsden) hitting our screens on Friday.
Also released is alien animation Planet 51 (with a voice cast including Dwayne Johnson, Jessica Biel and Gary Oldman) and Mercury Theatre biopic Me and Orson Welles (headed up by tween heart-throb Zac Efron). Finally, Steven Soderbergh will be hoping The Girlfriend Experience fares better than last week's The Informant!, but will porn star Sasha Grey have more pull than A-lister Matt Damon?
U.K. Box Office Archive
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