Buddy cop comedy The Other Guys debuts in first place at the UK box office with £1.9m to give Will Ferrell his best opening on these shores since Jon Favreau's Elf banked a hefty £4.5m way back in 2003. Meanwhile horror flick Devil is the only other new release to crack the top ten, taking second place with a decent £807k. After opening in first place last weekend Paul W. S. Anderson's Resident Evil: Afterlife slips two places to third, a fate shared by Pixar's Toy Story 3 (which falls to fourth after nine weeks in cinemas and pushes its cumulative gross to an astonishing £71.8m) and Adam Sandler comedy Grown Ups, rounding out the top five with a fourth-weekend haul of £513k.
Stephen Frears comic-strip adaptation Tamara Drewe leads the bottom half of the chart with £432k and falls one spot from last weekend, while low-budget horror The Last Exorcism drops three to seventh and Edgar Wright comedy Scott Pilgrim vs. The World goes one better as it plummets from sixth to tenth in its fourth weekend on release. It isn't all doom and gloom though as two films manage to climb back into the chart after a two-week absence, with Marmaduke and Diary of a Wimpy Kid finishing up in eighth and ninth respectively.
Number one this time last year: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Other Guys | £1,980,601 | 1 | £1,980,601 |
| 2 | Devil | £807,292 | 1 | £807,292 |
| 3 | Resident Evil: Afterlife | £727,908 | 2 | £3,330,840 |
| 4 | Toy Story 3 | £583,013 | 9 | £71,807,948 |
| 5 | Grown Ups | £513,881 | 4 | £6,300,322 |
| 6 | Tamara Drewe | £432,337 | 2 | £1,548,181 |
| 7 | The Last Exorcism | £321,585 | 3 | £3,180,800 |
| 8 | Marmaduke | £279,392 | 5 | £4,538,924 |
| 9 | Diary of a Wimpy Kid | £241,390 | 4 | £2,058,757 |
| 10 | Scott Pilgrim vs. The World | £233,228 | 4 | £4,812,773 |
Incoming...
The UK box office chart looks ripe for the taking with four releases vying for the top spot when they are released this coming Friday: American author Elizabeth Gilbert's memoirs come to the screen courtesy of Julia Roberts in Eat Pray Love (cert. PG); Joe Dante returns to his roots with 3D supernatural thriller The Hole (cert. 12A); Ben Affleck follows up his directorial debut Gone Baby Gone with the highly-rated crime thriller The Town (cert. 15); and Robin Williams headlines the black comedy World's Greatest Dad (cert. 15).
U.K. Box Office Archive
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