The calm before the impending summer storm provides a miserable weekend for the UK box office with only newly released Date Night managing to break seven figures. The Steve Carell - Tina Fey rom-com takes the top spot with £1.2m, which is the lowest haul for a debuting number one film in the last twelve months. Second and third remain unchanged with 3D efforts Clash of the Titans and How To Train Your Dragon continuing to perform well after battling each other for screens these past four weeks. Meanwhile last week's champion Dear John shows less staying power with a drop of almost 60% pushing the romantic drama down to fourth in its second week and knocking Matthew Vaughn's Kick-Ass into fifth, with the superhero comedy crossing £10m in after four weeks on screens.
In the bottom half of the chart political thriller The Ghost holds firm in sixth ahead of the debuting It's A Wonderful Afterlife, the new comedy from Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha. The film manages a seventh placed opening to match last weekend's fellow Brit comedy Cemetery Junction, although the latter managed to bank over £200k more before disappearing from the top ten at the second attempt.
Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang and Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland remain static in eighth and ninth to continue their strong returns for another week, while Demi Moore must be having nosebleeds with a tenth-placed opening for new drama The Joneses giving the actress a rare appearance in the chart.
Number one this time last year: State of Play
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Date Night | £1,272,405 | 1 | £1,272,405 |
| 2 | Clash of the Titans | £985,344 | 4 | £18,070,779 |
| 3 | How To Train Your Dragon | £821,638 | 4 | £14,256,991 |
| 4 | Dear John | £812,287 | 2 | £3,576,643 |
| 5 | Kick-Ass | £635,270 | 4 | £10,241,210 |
| 6 | The Ghost | £631,032 | 2 | £2,047,538 |
| 7 | It's A Wonderful Afterlife | £464,468 | 1 | £464,468 |
| 8 | Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang | £397,371 | 5 | £15,169,311 |
| 9 | Alice in Wonderland | £278,855 | 8 | £41,915,826 |
| 10 | The Joneses | £247,178 | 1 | £247,178 |
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The big release this week comes in the shape of superhero sequel Iron Man II (cert. 12A), which sees director Jon Favreau reteam with Robert Downey Jr. to do battle with Ivan Vanko (Mickey Rourke), a.k.a. Whiplash. The original was one of the biggest hits of 2008 and there will be high hopes for the sequel, which should obliterate the competition this coming weekend to take top spot.
Also opening on Friday is the action-adventure Valhalla Rising (cert. 15), war biopic John Rabe (cert. 15), Miley Cyrus abomination The Last Song (cert. PG) and Brit drama A Boy Called Dad (cert. 15).
U.K. Box Office Archive
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