Comedy appeared to be the order of the day for the last weekend of August with big hitters Grown Ups and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World squaring off against each other for the title of UK box office champion. Grown Ups - which stars Saturday Night Live alumni Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, David Spade and Rob Schneider (along with Paul Blart: Mall Cop's Kevin James) - banked £2m to take the top spot, giving Sandler his biggest ever opening in the UK and leaving Edgar Wright's comic book adaptation Scott Pilgrim to settle for second place with £1.6m.
Another two newcomers manage to make an appearance this week, albeit in the opposite end of the chart - Thor Freudenthal's adaptation of the Jeff Kinney book Diary of a Wimpy Kid takes eighth with £671k while the special edition release of James Cameron's Avatar takes ninth, adding another £624k to extend its record-setting gross to a whopping £92.8m.
Heading up the list of familiar faces is Disney-Pixar's smash hit animation Toy Story 3, which holds on to third and adds another £1.5m for a total of £67.6m after six weeks on release, while Last week's top two films - actionfests The Expendables and Salt - both fall three spots to fourth and fifth respectively. Filling out the bottom half of the chart are horror remake Pirahna 3D (down two to sixth), Christopher Nolan's Inception (down one to seventh), and the critically mauled Marmaduke (down five to tenth).
Number one this time last year: The Final Destination
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Grown Ups | £2,006,945 | 1 | £2,006,945 |
| 2 | Scott Pilgrim vs. The World | £1,604,545 | 1 | £1,604,545 |
| 3 | Toy Story 3 | £1,499,524 | 6 | £67,593,215 |
| 4 | The Expendables | £1,311,381 | 2 | £6,816,414 |
| 5 | Salt | £967,883 | 2 | £4,383,618 |
| 6 | Pirahna 3D | £886,495 | 2 | £3,287,882 |
| 7 | Inception | £699,041 | 7 | £33,085,858 |
| 8 | Diary of a Wimpy Kid | £671,161 | 1 | £671,161 |
| 9 | Avatar | £624,106 | 1 | £92,813,108 |
| 10 | Marmaduke | £586,715 | 2 | £2,938,461 |
Incoming...
A whole host of new releases make their debut this coming Friday including DC Comics adaptation Jonah Hex (cert. 15), rom-com The Switch (cert. 12A), comedy Dinner For Schmucks (cert. 12A) and horror The Last Exorcism (cert. 15). If none of those tickle your fancy then there's also the choice between Brit crime thriller Bonded By Blood (cert. TBC) and Tyler Perry comedy drama Why Did I Get Married Too? (cert. TBC), along with Bollywood efforts Nandalala (cert. 12A) and Chhevan Dariya (cert. TBC).
U.K. Box Office Archive
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