Romance was certainly in the air this past weekend as ensemble piece Valentine's Day finally put an end to Avatar's grip on the top of the UK box office. Naturally this success was boosted by an increase in takings on Sunday, with the rom-com banking £3.7m over the three days to push James Cameron's sci-fi epic down to second place in its ninth week of release. Valentine's Day is one of five new releases to have made its mark on the chart this weekend with Universal monster remake The Wolfman the best of the rest in third with £2.36m. Chris Columbus' latest fantasy adventure Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief just falls short of The Princess and the Frog's second-weekend haul to place fifth, with all of the top five banking over £1.5m. Indian romance My Name is Khan enjoys the biggest ever UK opening for a Bollywood release with £936,454 to nab sixth, while Colin Firth drama A Single Man debuts in eighth.
Elsewhere in the bottom half, the only films to survive from last weekend are Clint Eastwood's Invictus (down three places to seventh), Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (down one to ninth) and Astro Boy, which plummets seven places to prop up the chart in tenth.
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Valentine's Day | £3,732,393 | 1 | £3,732,393 |
| 2 | Avatar | £3,316,855 | 9 | £77,072,663 |
| 3 | The Wolfman | £2,367,849 | 1 | £2,367,849 |
| 4 | The Princess and the Frog | £1,504,908 | 2 | £4,197,395 |
| 5 | Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief | £1,502,663 | 1 | £1,502,663 |
| 6 | My Name is Khan | £936,454 | 1 | £936,454 |
| 7 | Invictus | £778,146 | 2 | £2,462,568 |
| 8 | A Single Man | £502,009 | 1 | £502,009 |
| 9 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel | £424,622 | 8 | £21,337,049 |
| 10 | Astro Boy | £422,382 | 2 | £1,625,987 |
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With only a handful of new films opening this coming weekend, the big hitter is Peter Jackson's The Lovely Bones (cert. 12A), adapted from Alice Sebold bestselling novel and starring Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg and Saoirse Ronan. Meanwhile, Friday also sees the release of fantasy actioner Solomon Kane (cert. 15) and Tolstoy biopic The Last Station (cert. 15).
U.K. Box Office Archive
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