After a strong opening last week, Steven Spielberg's The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn retains its position at the top of the UK box office, with a second-weekend haul of £2.2m proving enough to see off the competiton from new arrivals In Time and Tower Heist. Despite two extra days of preview screenings, the Justin Timberlake / Amanda Seyfried sci-fi thriller In Time banks £1.88m to claim second, while Brett Ratner's Tower Heist was the only other film to break the seven figure mark - the Eddie Murphy / Ben Stiller action comedy pulling in £1.45m to finish up in third. Moving on to the familiar faces, the Rowan Atkinson comedy sequel Johnny English Reborn slips one place to fourth and pushes its total gross to £19m as chiller Paranormal Activity 3 fallsthree positions, rounding out the top half of the chart in its third week of release. Continuing on and Civil Rights drama The Help climbs one spot to sixth as Steven Soderbergh's Contagion drops to seventh and The Ides of March holds firm in eighth. Meanwhile The Lion King 3D suffers the biggest fall of the week as it slips four places to ninth, one spot above the Gerard Butler war drama Machine Gun Preacher, which debuts in tenth with receipts of £331k.
Number one this time last year: Due Date
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn | £2,199,171 | 2 | £10,393,667 |
| 2 | In Time | £1,882,365 | 1 | £1,882,365 |
| 3 | Tower Heist | £1,451,029 | 1 | £1,451,029 |
| 4 | Johnny English Reborn | £832,068 | 4 | £18,994,878 |
| 5 | Paranormal Activity 3 | £800,580 | 3 | £9,631,236 |
| 6 | The Help | £537,633 | 2 | £2,129,198 |
| 7 | Contagion | £493,293 | 3 | £4,855,880 |
| 8 | The Ides of March | £489,240 | 2 | £1,616,527 |
| 9 | The Lion King 3D | £461,738 | 5 | £11,870,821 |
| 10 | Machine Gun Preacher | £331,578 | 1 | £331,578 |
Incoming...
Aardman will be hoping that Christmas comes early this year as the British animation studio goes 3D with Arthur Christmas (cert. U), a festive adventure featuring an impressive voice cast that includes James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton and Ashley Jensen. Arthur Christmas will be facing competition for the 3D market, as Friday also sees the arrival of Tarsem Singh's action fantasy Immortals (cert. 15), while other releases include the Nicolas Cage / Nicole Kidman home invasion thriller Trespass (cert. 15) [read our review here] and period ghost story The Awakening (cert. 15) from BAFTA Award-winning British television director Nick Murphy.
U.K. Box Office Archive
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