With a four-day head-start on the usual Friday-to-Sunday weekend, Pixar's latest masterpiece Toy Story 3 enjoys a record-breaking UK release with an astonishing haul of £21,187,264. Those numbers give the film the biggest ever opening for an animated movie and place it in second in the UK's all-time list behind 2004's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. Naturally this is also the biggest opening of 2010 and sets a huge benchmark that surely only Harry Potter can challenge when part one of The Deathly Hallows is released this November. As a result, Christopher Nolan's mind-bending thriller Inception falls to second but adds another £4.1m for a strong second weekend while vampire romance The Twilight Saga: Eclipse holds onto third and pushes its three-week gross beyond the £25m mark. Less fortunate however is Dreamworks Animation's Shrek Forever After, which falls two places to fourth in the wake of Toy Story 3's dominance of 3D screens but remains the highest grossing film in the chart overall.
Along with Toy Story 3 three other newcomers make their debut this week but none can be said to have set the world alight. Best of the bunch was The Rebound with the Catherine Zeta Jones / Justin Bartha rom-com banking £360k to claim fifth, ahead of Bollywood satire Khatta Meetha (in seventh with £124k) and horror flick Splice, which pulls in just £110k to take ninth.
Elsewhere in the chart Splice star Adrien Brody turns up again in sixth with the sci-fi reboot Predators (falling two places from last week) while Russell Brand comedy Get Him to the Greek drops three spots to eighth after five weeks on screens. Finally at the foot of the chart is French drama Leaving, which hasn't quite left but slips one place although it does enjoy a slight increase in takings from last weekend.
Number one this time last year: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Toy Story 3 | £21,187,264 | 1 | £21,187,264 |
| 2 | Inception | £4,172, 568 | 2 | £14,204,521 |
| 3 | The Twilight Saga: Eclipse | £1,436,792 | 3 | £25,636,305 |
| 4 | Shrek Forever After | £1,223,759 | 4 | £26,878,721 |
| 5 | The Rebound | £360,015 | 1 | £360,015 |
| 6 | Predators | £305,424 | 3 | £5,302,342 |
| 7 | Khatta Meetha | £124,104 | 1 | £124,104 |
| 8 | Get Him to the Greek | £119,424 | 5 | £6,809,659 |
| 9 | Splice | £110,225 | 1 | £110,225 |
| 10 | Leaving | £39,409 | 3 | £204,525 |
Incoming...
Two reboots of popular 80s properties arrive this week with cinemas hoping that a little nostalgia is enough to get parents and their children through the doors after an expensive first week to the school holidays...
On Wednesday Jackie Chan becomes mentor to Jaden Smith in The Karate Kid (cert. PG), while The A-Team (cert. 12A) make their big-screen debut on Friday in the shape of Liam Neeson, Bradley Cooper, Sharlto Copley and Quinton Jackson.
Fans of world cinema can also choose between French music biopic Gainsbourg (cert. 15) and Bollywood crime epic Once Upon A Time in Mumbai (cert. TBC), both of which are released on Friday.
U.K. Box Office Archive
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