Steven Spielberg's World War I epic War Horse jumps straight in at number one in the UK box office chart, with the big budget adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's popular children's novel of the same name banking an solid £3,944,746 from its opening weekend. Although that figure is some way down on Spielberg's other 2011 offering, The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, which pulled in £6.7m back at the end of October, that figure included £3.25m of preview screenings, giving War Horse a slight advantage over the Friday-Sunday period. After a third-placed debut last weekend, Thatcher biopic The Iron Lady climbs to second, swapping places with the Guy Ritchie sequel Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, while the Tom Cruise actioner Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol slips to fourth after topping the chart for the past two weeks. Meanwhile David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo rounds out the top five, banking £1m to give the Daniel Craig / Rooney Mara thriller just shy of £10m to date on these shores.
In sixth place this week is the Russian-American sci-fi thriller The Darkest Hour, which pulls in £740,773 in its opening weekend, while The Artist continues to climb the chart, moving up one spot to seventh in its third week on screens. Elsewhere, family films Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked and Puss in Boots both fall one place apiece to eighth and ninth, with Steve McQueen's acclaimed drama Shame sneaking in to take tenth with an opening haul of £535,288.
Number one this time last year: The King's Speech
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | War Horse | £3,944,746 | 1 | £3,944,746 |
| 2 | The Iron Lady | £1,489,528 | 2 | £5,178,349 |
| 3 | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | £1,403,319 | 5 | £23,106,495 |
| 4 | Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol | £1,373,539 | 4 | £15,373,252 |
| 5 | The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | £1,046,225 | 3 | £9,872,843 |
| 6 | The Darkest Hour | £740,773 | 1 | £740,773 |
| 7 | The Artist | £688,546 | 3 | £1,888,327 |
| 8 | Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked | £681,642 | 5 | £12,461,971 |
| 9 | Puss in Boots | £679,348 | 6 | £12,993,569 |
| 10 | Shame | £535,288 | 1 | £535,288 |
Incoming...
This Wednesday sees the release of Steven Soderbergh's action-thriller Haywire (cert. 15), which features the likes of Gina Carano, Channing Tatum, Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Michael Douglas, Bill Paxton and Antonio Banderas - while Friday brings forth the return of Kate Beckinsale as Selene in the vampires and werewolves sequel Underworld: Awakening (cert. 18). Also arriving on Friday is Clint Eastwood's biopic J. Edgar (cert. 15) starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer and Naomi Watts [read our 'making of' article here], along with Jonah Hill's newest comedy The Sitter (cert. 15), Ralph Fiennes' directorial debut Coriolanus (cert. 15) and Madonna's historical romance W.E. (cert. 15). Phew!
U.K. Box Office Archive
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