11 years after we last saw Ghostface in cinemas Wes Craven returns to the top of the box office with Scream 4 banking £2.06m to give it the biggest opening here in the UK since the sci-fi comedy Paul topped the chart back in February. However, looking down the rest of the top ten and it's another disappointing return for cinemas, with only Scream and last week's number one Rio managing to break seven figures, the CG-animation slipping to second with £1.6m to give it £5.5m overall. In third and fourth are two more new releases - medieval comedy Your Highness pulling in £926K (with £344k of that coming from preview screenings) and Catherine Hardwicke's Red Riding Hood banking £842k - while CG / live-action hybrid Hop rounds out the top five with a three-week haul of £4.6m. Meanwhile further down the chart Walt Disney's Winnie the Pooh suffers from a total lack of promotion and manages just £159k to open in eighth place, with French comedy drama Little White Lies also a new entry down in tenth.
Rounding out the rest of the chart and techno-thrillers Source Code and Limitless both fall four places to sixth and seventh respectively, a feat matched by Zack Snyder's Sucker Punch in ninth.
Number one this time last year: Dear John
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Scream 4 | £2,061,885 | 1 | £2,061,885 |
| 2 | Rio | £1,695,927 | 2 | £5,515,691 |
| 3 | Your Highness | £926,338 | 1 | £926,338 |
| 4 | Red Riding Hood | £842,398 | 1 | £842,398 |
| 5 | Hop | £788,809 | 3 | £4,622,392 |
| 6 | Source Code | £674,202 | 3 | £4,496,468 |
| 7 | Limitless | £603,963 | 4 | £7,043,285 |
| 8 | Winnie the Pooh | £159,369 | 1 | £159,369 |
| 9 | Sucker Punch | £144,612 | 3 | £2,105,480 |
| 10 | Little White Lies | £125,273 | 1 | £125,273 |
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With a number of new films opening this Friday, competition for top spot is likely to come down to either Fast & Furious 5 (cert. TBC) featuring Paul Walker, Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson, or the Russell Brand-starring remake of Arthur (cert. 12A). If neither of those take your fancy then options include fantasy romance Beastly (cert. 12A) with Vanessa Hudgens and Alex Pettyfer, Luc Besson fantasy The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec (cert. 12A) and 3D racing documentary, TT3D: Closer to the Edge (cert. 15).
U.K. Box Office Archive
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