David Fincher's The Social Network may be enjoying critical success but it wasn't enough to propel the film to the top of the chart in its opening weekend here in the UK. Instead that honour befell Despicable Me, the first offering from newly-created animation house Illumination Entertainment, which banks £3.6m to leave the Mark Zuckerberg biopic settling for second place with a decent return of £2.4m. Also released this past weekend was Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer's latest stake in the heart of the spoof genre, Vampires Suck, taking third place with £1m and pushing last week's top two films - Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and Life As We Know It - down to fourth and fifth respectively.
In the bottom half of the chart Ben Affleck's second directorial feature The Town falls once place to sixth while Brit drama Made in Dagenham holds firm in seventh. Buddy cop comedy The Other Guys drops four spots (although with the exit of Toy Story 3 this week it is now the highest earner in the chart with £7.7m to date), while the steepest decline is reserved for the Zac Efron drama Charlie St. Cloud, which plunges six places to ninth in only its second weekend. Finally Julia Roberts drama Eat Pray Love props up the chart in tenth but looks about ready for the count with just £153k.
Number one this time last year: Up
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Despicable Me | £3,664,376 | 1 | £3,664,376 |
| 2 | The Social Network | £2,486,454 | 1 | £2,486,454 |
| 3 | Vampires Suck | £1,089,339 | 1 | £1,089,339 |
| 4 | Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps | £675,549 | 2 | £3,084,007 |
| 5 | Life As We Know It | £624,367 | 2 | £2,262,970 |
| 6 | The Town | £343,620 | 4 | £4,445,639 |
| 7 | Made in Dagenham | £343,222 | 3 | £2,566,304 |
| 8 | The Other Guys | £332,064 | 5 | £7,785,216 |
| 9 | Charlie St. Cloud | £314,873 | 2 | £1,299,236 |
| 10 | Eat Pray Love | £153,276 | 4 | £4,291,302 |
Incoming...
Horror sequel Paranormal Activity 2 (cert. 15) will be looking to make the same kind of impact as its predecessor when it hits UK screens this coming Friday and will likely fight it out with Zack Snyder's 3D CG-animated fantasy Legends of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (cert. 15) for first place.
Meanwhile 3D family rival Alpha and Omega (cert. U) could also find itself in the mix (although terrible reviews would suggest otherwise), along with action-comedy Red (cert. 12A), starring Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman and Helen Mirren.
Also arriving this weekend... highly rated drama Africa United (cert. 12A), high school comedy Easy A (cert. 15), children's book adaptation Ramona and Beezus (cert. U), and documentary Chasing Legends (cert. 15).
U.K. Box Office Archive
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