Leading an unchanged top two, James Cameron's Avatar holds firm in first place and adds another £4.77m to push its total UK gross beyond the £40m mark after four weekends on our screens. The 3D sci-fi epic currently stands as the second biggest UK release of 2009 behind Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (on £49m), while it's worldwide gross of $1.34 billion is second only to Cameron's own Titanic ($1.8 billion). Can the motion capture blockbuster continue to push towards the coveted top spot? Having added $300m in the past week, Avatar is beginning to close the gap and could yet mount a serious challenge... Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes continues to impress in second place, while the highest new release of the week - vampire thriller Daybreakers - opens in third with £1.34m. Family comedy Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel slips one spot to fourth and passes the £15m mark (along with Sherlock Holmes), with Meryl Streep rom-com It's Complicated debuting in fifth position ahead of post-apocalyptic thriller The Road, based upon Cormac McCarthy's novel and starring Viggo Mortensen.
Heading towards the bottom comedy Did You Hear About the Morgans, musical Nine and schoolgirl sequel St. Trinians 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold all slip three places from last week, with newly released Ian Dury biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll propping up the chart in tenth place.
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Avatar | £4,770,980 | 4 | £40,991,797 |
| 2 | Sherlock Holmes | £2,026,732 | 3 | £15,676,565 |
| 3 | Daybreakers | £1,344,588 | 1 | £1,344,588 |
| 4 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel | £1,220,271 | 3 | £15,006,626 |
| 5 | It's Complicated | £1,098,659 | 1 | £1,098,659 |
| 6 | The Road | £627,147 | 1 | £627,147 |
| 7 | Did You Hear About The Morgans? | £558,415 | 2 | £2,247,350 |
| 8 | Nine | £338,454 | 4 | £2,401,982 |
| 9 | St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold | £293,904 | 4 | £6,182,131 |
| 10 | Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll | £173,831 | 1 | £173,831 |
Incoming...
Highly praised comedy drama Up in the Air opens this Friday [be sure to read Trevor Hogg's profile on director Jason Reitman], along with post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller The Book of Eli (starring Denzel Washington, Mila Kunis and Gary Oldman) and Sandra Bullock comedy All About Steve. Also hitting a limited number of screens is documentary Crude, which deals with the contamination of the Ecaudorean Amazon by energy giant Chevron.
U.K. Box Office Archive
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