Back in 2009, family sequel Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel managed to defeat Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes at the UK box office, but there was no repeat in the rematch as Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows tops the chart with £3.83m, leaving Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked to settle for second place with £2.36m. Both films could enjoy an impressive run over the Christmas period, with little competition imminent except - in the case of Sherlock Holmes - for Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, which arrives in cinemas on Boxing Day. With the two top spots occupied by the only new arrivals to the chart, the rest of the top ten is made up of familiar faces. Arthur Christmas slips one position to third place as it banks another £1.35m (impressive, given that it's the film's sixth weekend on screens), while last week's top film Puss in Boots finds itself down in fourth ahead of the star-studded rom-com New Year's Eve. Also falling two places are Hugo, Happy Feet Two and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 in sixth, seventh and eighth respectively, with A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas 3D slipping one to ninth and My Week with Marilyn finishing up in tenth after a seventh-placed finish last time out.
Number one this time last year: TRON: Legacy
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | £3,827,697 | 1 | £3,827,697 |
| 2 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked | £2,361,867 | 1 | £2,361,867 |
| 3 | Arthur Christmas | £1,345,238 | 6 | £15,244,303 |
| 4 | Puss in Boots | £1,297,998 | 2 | £4,080,241 |
| 5 | New Year's Eve | £846,761 | 2 | £2,994,096 |
| 6 | Hugo | £387,208 | 3 | £3,191,545 |
| 7 | Happy Feet Two | £343,563 | 3 | £3,561,834 |
| 8 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 | £327,253 | 5 | £29,512,091 |
| 9 | A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas 3D | £109,063 | 2 | £437,811 |
| 10 | My Week with Marilyn | £89,207 | 4 | £2,742,329 |
Incoming...
It's a bit of a quiet week leading in to Christmas, with only the only newcomer of note being Tom Cruise's latest, the Brad Bird-directed Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, which opens on Wednesday in IMAX ahead of the film's official release on Boxing Day. Meanwhile, the 26th also sees the arrival of David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, which stars Daniel Craig as investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist and Rooney Mara as the troubled computer hacker Lisbeth Salander. With the added attraction of The Dark Knight Rises prologue on selected IMAX screenings and takings from the 26th and 27th counting towards the Christmas weekend, you'd have to place your money on MI-4 topping the chart this time next week.
U.K. Box Office Archive
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