James Cameron's Golden Globe winner Avatar continues to dominate the UK chart with a whopping £5.5m (up £750k from last week) to hold on to top spot on its fifth weekend. The sci-fi epic currently stands at 15 in the all-time UK box office (headed by Mamma Mia! on £69m), but with global takings of $1.62 billion it now looks like a good bet to smash Titanic's long-standing record of $1.8b as the biggest earner of all time. While not quite reaching the heights of Avatar, both Sherlock Holmes and Alvin and the Chipmunks continue to enjoy success with a small jump in takings helping them to ensure an unchanged top three for the second week running. Not to be outdone, Meryl Streep rom-com It's Complicated also exceeds its opening weekend and jumps one place to fourth, although Daybreakers and The Road were less fortunate and drop to seventh and eighth respectively.
The week's two major releases - post-apocalyptic Denzel thriller The Book of Eli and George Clooney comedy Up in the Air - both suffered from the stiff competition and were left to settle with mid-table finishes of fifth and sixth, with Sandra Bullock comedy All About Steve and Brit thriller 44 Inch Chest failing to crack the top ten. Instead, audiences opted for comedies Did You Hear About the Morgans? and St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold, while musical Nine and biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll both slip out of contention.
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Avatar | £5,527,039 | 5 | £49,374,516 |
| 2 | Sherlock Holmes | £2,028,282 | 4 | £18,829,133 |
| 3 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel | £1,542,970 | 4 | £16,862,702 |
| 4 | It's Complicated | £1,300,580 | 2 | £3,291,257 |
| 5 | Up in the Air | £1,298,023 | 1 | £1,298,023 |
| 6 | The Book of Eli | £1,232,001 | 1 | £1,232,001 |
| 7 | Daybreakers | £804,762 | 2 | £2,737,375 |
| 8 | The Road | £470,652 | 2 | £1,509,975 |
| 9 | Did You Hear About The Morgans? | £396,106 | 3 | £3,296,621 |
| 10 | St Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold | £282,047 | 5 | £6,545,874 |
Incoming...
A few new releases will be hoping to make their mark this coming Friday including war drama Brothers (starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman and ex-Spider-Man Tobey Maguire), along with martial-arts actioner Ninja Assassin, crime thriller Armored and Clive Owen drama The Boys Are Back.
Meanwhile Pixar classic Toy Story 2 gets a special limited 3D re-release, although it's likely to struggle for screens against the might of Avatar and may prove difficult to catch.
U.K. Box Office Archive
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