After a hefty opening last weekend, Michael Bay's action sequel Transformers: Dark of the Moon continues to keeping top spot warm until the arrival of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, banking another £4.75m to push its two-week haul to an impressive £19.7m. Meanwhile with no major new releases this past week, Bridesmaids, Kung Fu Panda 2 and Bad Teacher all manage to retain their positions, occupying second, third and fourth respectively. Despite the fact it doesn't hit UK cinemas until next month, comedy thriller The Guard manages to take fifth place, having collected a strong £473k from its run in Ireland, while Terrence Malick's latest masterpiece The Tree of Life opens in sixth position, earning £406k from just 75 screens. The new arrivals mean that The Hangover Part II and X-Men: First Class both slip one place apiece to seventh and ninth, with rom-com Larry Crowne sandwiched between them in eighth after falling three spots. Also down three is the superhero flop Green Lantern, which props up the chart in tenth and falls just short of the £6m mark after four weeks on release.
Number one this time last year: Shrek Forever After
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | £4,750,519 | 2 | £19,701,418 |
| 2 | Bridesmaids | £2,227,589 | 3 | £12,440,066 |
| 3 | Kung Fu Panda 2 | £900,739 | 5 | £13,975,978 |
| 4 | Bad Teacher | £535,626 | 4 | £6,758,333 |
| 5 | The Guard | £473,878 | 1 | £473,878 |
| 6 | The Tree of Life | £406,062 | 1 | £406,062 |
| 7 | The Hangover Part II | £301,450 | 7 | £32,450,115 |
| 8 | Larry Crowne | £275,593 | 2 | £979,745 |
| 9 | X-Men: First Class | £230,143 | 6 | £14,681,501 |
| 10 | Green Lantern | £217,088 | 4 | £5,969,754 |
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The big release this coming Friday is of course the final installment in Warner Bros.' epic fantasy series, with Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (cert. 12A) likely to put up a strong challenge for the biggest opening of the year so far. Meanwhile, if Harry Potter isn't your thing, then I'm afraid you'll have to settle for the Spanish drama Cell 211 (cert. 18), or Deiva Thirumagal (cert. TBC), the Bollywood remake of I Am Sam.
U.K. Box Office Archive
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