In an unchanged top three the UK box office is once again dominated by Avatar, with the James Cameron film adding another £5m+ to its gross and shattering the record for sixth weekend performance previously held by Titanic with £3.3m. Perhaps a tad more memorable is the fact that today he's also broken his own record at the global box office, although the film will have to wait a little longer before it tops the domestic record books in both the US (Titanic) and UK (Mamma Mia). Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes has enjoyed a strong run since opening on Boxing Day and passes the £20m mark, while fellow holiday release Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel remains hot on its heels in third place. Meanwhile Jason Reitman comedy Up in the Air and rom-com It's Complicated (which or the time being stands as the biggest UK release of 2010) swap places but both hit seven figures, with no new releases managing to break into the top five.
Opening for a special two-week limited 3D run (the timing of which one has to question), the Pixar classic Toy Story 2 managed to pull in £900k despite fierce competition from Avatar for screens, placing sixth to lead the new releases and pushing The Book of Eli and Daybreakers down one position apiece.
Finally at the foot of the chart, war drama Brothers opens in ninth to disappointing numbers (although not as disappointing as Ninja Assassin, which continues the Wachowski brothers' dysmal run of form), while highly-rated French gangster flick A Prophet banks just £50k less from almost a third of the screens.
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Avatar | £5,155,844 | 6 | £57,441,123 |
| 2 | Sherlock Holmes | £1,632,172 | 5 | £21,372,499 |
| 3 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel | £1,454,278 | 5 | £18,563,223 |
| 4 | Up in the Air | £1,205,881 | 2 | £3,282,512 |
| 5 | It's Complicated | £1,140,684 | 3 | £5,397,653 |
| 6 | Toy Story 2 | £909,093 | 1 | £909,093 |
| 7 | The Book of Eli | £825,508 | 2 | £2,636,078 |
| 8 | Daybreakers | £420,199 | 3 | £3,521,958 |
| 9 | Brothers | £366,290 | 1 | £366,290 |
| 10 | A Prophet | £312,237 | 1 | £312,237 |
Incoming...
Avatar will surely retain the top spot next weekend with little in the way of competition; Friday sees the release of director Lee Daniels' award winning drama Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, along with Mel Gibson thriller Edge of Darkness and a limited release for the South Korean crime drama Ddongpari (a.k.a Breathless).
U.K. Box Office Archive
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