Aided by a healthy dose of preview screenings during the half term holidays, Steven Spielberg's motion-capture animated adaptation of Hergé's roving Belgian reporter Tintin tops the UK box office chart, with the first in a planned trilogy of films banking £6.7m to take first place in its opening weekend. The strong returns for The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn has a knock-on effect with the rest of the top five, pushing Paranormal Activity 3, Johnny English Reborn, Contagion and The Lion King 3D down one place apiece to occupy positions two through five. Shifting to the bottom half of the chart and three further newcomers make an appearance this week, with the Bollywood superhero effort RA. One leading the pack as it pulls in an impressive £908k to claim sixth. Acclaimed drama The Help follows in seventh with £869k, while George Clooney's latest directorial effort, The Ides of March, has to settle for seventh with £665k, despite a strong cast that includes Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Paul Giamatti and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Meanwhile, shifting to the familiar faces at the bottom of the chart, the Hugh Jackman robot boxing effort Real Steel banks £508k and slips four places to ninth, while Dolphin Tale slips one spot to prop up the chart in tenth with weekend receipts of £295k.
Number one this time last year: Saw 3D
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn | £6,758,724 | 1 | £6,758,724 |
| 2 | Paranormal Activity 3 | £1,843,816 | 2 | £7,594,554 |
| 3 | Johnny English Reborn | £1,787,451 | 3 | £17,497,821 |
| 4 | Contagion | £1,051,348 | 2 | £3,742,241 |
| 5 | The Lion King 3D | £1,011,060 | 4 | £11,040,929 |
| 6 | RA. One | £908,768 | 1 | £908,768 |
| 7 | The Help | £896,597 | 1 | £896,597 |
| 8 | The Ides of March | £665,387 | 1 | £665,387 |
| 9 | Real Steel | £508,604 | 3 | £4,174,237 |
| 10 | Dolphin Tale | £295,641 | 3 | £2,037,534 |
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Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried got a head start on this week's new arrivals as the sci-fi thriller In Time (cert. 12A) opened in UK cinemas today, while Friday sees Johnny Depp starring in his second Hunter S. Thompson adaptation after Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas with the release of The Rum Diary (cert. 15). Also opening on Friday is the family football adventure Will (cert. PG), Gerard Butler war drama Machine Gun Preacher (cert. 15), remake Straw Dogs (cert. 18), Philip Seymour Hoffman / Amy Ryan rom-com Jack Goes Boating (cert. 15) and the Ben Stiller / Eddie Murphy action comedy Tower Heist (cert. 12A) from director Brett Ratner.
U.K. Box Office Archive
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