With Halloween approaching, its no surprise that Paranormal Activity finds itself perched atop the UK box office, with the third installment of the series banking £3,405,036 to claim a first-placed debut for the third year in a row. Paranormal Activity 3's opening is slightly down on both of its predecessors, with Oren Peli's original taking £3.59m in 2009 and last year's sequel banking £3.76m for a franchise high on these shores. Despite topping the chart, Paranormal Activity 3 failed to replicate the kind of success it enjoyed in the US (a $53m opening), but with Halloween still to come a strong second weekend should be expected.The highest other newcomer in the chart this past weekend is Steven Soderbergh's Contagion, which pulled in £1.46m to take third behind Johnny English Reborn - the Rowan Atkinson spy comedy dropping to second after two weeks atop the chart and pushing its total gross just shy of £13m to date. Occupying positions four-through-six are The Lion King 3D (down two), Real Steel (down one) and The Three Mustketeers (down three), while Lynne Ramsay's latest drama We Need to Talk About Kevin opens in seventh, banking £492k from just 111 screens. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy slips three places to eighth and remains the highest grossing film in the top tenl, while Dolphin Tale drops two to ninth and Footloose loses its footing and plunges four spots to prop up the chart in tenth.
Number one this time last year: Paranormal Activity 2
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paranormal Activity 3 | £3,405,036 | 1 | £3,405,036 |
| 2 | Johnny English Reborn | £2,052,062 | 2 | £12,906,637 |
| 3 | Contagion | £1,463,638 | 1 | £1,463,638 |
| 4 | The Lion King 3D | £1,356,217 | 3 | £8,237,223 |
| 5 | Real Steel | £842,597 | 2 | £2,887,193 |
| 6 | The Three Musketeers | £585,506 | 2 | £2,609,714 |
| 7 | We Need To Talk About Kevin | £492,297 | 1 | £492,297 |
| 8 | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | £394,605 | 6 | £13,120,786 |
| 9 | Dolphin Tale | £364,921 | 2 | £1,008,971 |
| 10 | Footloose | £270,794 | 2 | £1,068,225 |
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With the school half term upon us, director Steven Spielberg and producer Peter Jackson looked to give themselves a head start on the competition as The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (cert. PG) opened in cinemas this past Monday, while Wednesday sees the arrival of the 60s-set drama The Help (cert. 12A) starring Emma Stone and Bryce Dallas Howard. Other newcomers on Friday include the George Clooney-directed The Ides of March (cert. 15), which features Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Evan Rachel Wood, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Paul Giamatti, along with period drama Anonymous (cert. 12A), Brit slasher Demons Never Die (cert. TBC) and thriller Miss Bala (cert. 15).
U.K. Box Office Archive
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