Six weeks into release Robert Zemeckis’ animated take on the Charles Dickens’ literary classic A Christmas Carol returns to the peak of the UK box-office chart, going from flop (sorta) to top with over £16m in total receipts since first hitting our screens. Disney must be very pleased with the legs shown by their festive entry, which has already beaten out the total run of motion-capture predecessors Polar Express (£12m) and Beowulf (£7.4m), although the film is bound to lose the majority of 3D screens when Avatar is released this week. Settling for second place is new release Where the Wild Things Are from director Spike Jonze, which opens with a rather disappointing £883,990 despite showing on the most screens of any film in the chart, while another family flick makes the top three with animation Planet 51 climbing from fourth last week. Less fortunate is last week’s number one movie Paranormal Activity, dropping three to place fourth ahead of The Twilight Saga: New Moon, which passes the £25m mark overall with a weekend take of £750k and rounds out the top five.
In the bottom half of the chart yuletide comedy Nativity! continues to enjoy solid takings and climbs one spot to sixth while Law Abiding Citizen and 2012 both fall two to finish seventh and eighth respectively. Also suffering a descent (but not as steep as The Descent: Part 2, which vacates the top ten) is Richard Kelly’s third feature The Box in ninth, while Coen brothers comedy A Serious Man retains its position at the foot of the chart for the third week in a row.
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Christmas Carol | £1,544,226 | 6 | £16,030,083 |
| 2 | Where the Wild Things Are | £883,990 | 1 | £883,990 |
| 3 | Planet 51 | £764,742 | 2 | £2,537,718 |
| 4 | Paranormal Activity | £758,704 | 3 | £8,703,396 |
| 5 | The Twilight Saga: New Moon | £750,227 | 3 | £25,004,680 |
| 6 | Nativity! | £667,663 | 3 | £2,676,614 |
| 7 | Law Abiding Citizen | £604,873 | 4 | £4,731,175 |
| 8 | 2012 | £471,856 | 3 | £18,674,864 |
| 9 | The Box | £249,707 | 2 | £1,011,735 |
| 10 | A Serious Man | £139,778 | 4 | £1,335,999 |
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Thursday sees the long-awaited arrival of James Cameron’s 3D epic Avatar, while daring to stand against this behemoth is St Trinian’s 2: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold. Hard to predict the winner there, then.
U.K. Box Office Archive
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