As expected, the penultimate installment of U.S. author Stephenie Meyer's blockbuster vampire romance series, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1, opens in first place at the UK box office, banking £13.9m to narrowly beat out the previous franchise high of £13.7m set by Eclipse last July, although it fails to unseat the £23.7m figure set by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 as the biggest opening weekend of the year. Meanwhile last week's number one film, the fantasy epic Immortals, slips three places to fourth, with Aardman Animations' festive offering Arthur Christmas and Steven Spielberg's motion-capture Herge adaptation The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn both hold firm in second and third respectively. Shifting further down the chart and the sci-fi thriller In Time appears to be shrugging off mixed reviews as it slips one spot to fifth in its third week on screens - a fate shared by the Eddie Murphy / Ben Stiller action comedy Tower Heist, which also drops one to finish up in sixth. Next up is another new release, Justice, with Nicolas Cage returning to the chart for the fourth time this year, albeit with just £276k in receipts. Nevertheless, it's enough to knock Johnny English Reborn down one position to eighth, while Johnny Depp's The Rum Diary suffers the steepest decline of the week as it plunges three to ninth, leaving George Clooney's second directorial effort, The Ides of March, to prop up the chart in tenth for the second consecutive weekend.
Number one this time last year: Due Date
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 | £13,910,877 | 1 |
| 2 | Arthur Christmas | £2,317,953 | 2 |
| 3 | The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn | £988,578 | 4 |
| 4 | Immortals | £950,230 | 2 |
| 5 | In Time | £453,958 | 3 |
| 6 | Tower Heist | £411,888 | 3 |
| 7 | Justice | £276,483 | 1 |
| 8 | Johnny English Reborn | £256,828 | 6 |
| 9 | The Rum Diary | £230,740 | 2 |
| 10 | The Ides of March | £180,692 | 4 |
Incoming...
This Friday sees a number of new films arriving in cinemas, although none are likely to challenge the dominance of Twilight at the UK box office. Nevertheless, there's a good selection of films on offer (without a vampire or werewolf in sight), including Terence Davies' The Deep Blue Sea (cert. 12A), the Joseph Gordon-Levitt / Seth Rogen comedy 50/50 (cert. 15), Brad Pitt's latest, the sporting drama Moneyball (cert. 12A), and the acclaimed thriller Take Shelter (cert. 15), which features General Zod-to-be, Michael Shannon. Meanwhile Michelle Williams takes on the role of screen siren Marilyn Monroe in the drama My Week with Marilyn (cert. 15) and Daniel Craig and Naomi Watts star in the psychological thriller Dream House (cert. 15).
U.K. Box Office Archive
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