UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 25th - Sunday 27th January 2013...
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Tom Hooper's Les Miserables topped the UKbox office chart for the third weekend running, with the Oscar hopeful banking a healthy £4.02m to lead a top five packed with Best Picture contenders. Despite the arrival of Steven Spielberg's Lincoln and Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained held firm in second place with £2.42m,while Lincoln pulled in £1,657,337 to debut in third and Zero Dark Thirty had to settle for fifth, with its opening haul of £1,052,845 falling short of the £1.12m sixth-weekend take of Ang Lee's Life of Pi.
Heading into the bottom half of the chart and Tsunami drama The Impossible also managed to break seven-figures in sixth, followed by the newly-released Movie 43, the ensemble comedy opening with £787,648 (presumably its enormous A-list cast managed to off-set all the negative reviews). Disney-Pixar's Monsters, Inc 3D slipped one place to eighth, while Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey fell three spots to ninth, having crossed £51m after seven weeks on screens. And finally, Arnold Schwarzenegger's comeback received another blow as the action comedy The Last Stand suffered a repeat of its lacklustre North American debut, banking just £538,867 to leave it wallowing in tenth.
Number one this time last year: War Horse
1. Les Misérables - £4,016,611 weekend; £24.618,896 total (3 weeks)
2. Django Unchained - £2,419,846 weekend; £7,185,499 total (2 weeks)
3. Lincoln - £1,657,337 weekend (New)
4. Life of Pi - £1,119,570 weekend; £25,957,044 total (6 weeks)
5. Zero Dark Thirty - £1,052,845 weekend (New)
6. The Impossible - £1,006,477 weekend; £10,777,332 total (3 weeks)
7. Movie 43 - £787,648 weekend (New)
8. Monsters, Inc 3D - £703,656 weekend; £1,595,962 total (2 weeks)
9. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - £623,889 weekend; £51,020,811 total (7 weeks)
10. The Last Stand - £538,867 weekend (New)
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Friday sees the release of Robert Zemeckis' Flight (cert. 15) featuring an Academy Award-nominated turn from Denzel Washington [read our review here], along with the Sylvester Stallone action thriller Bullet to the Head (cert. 15) and the British comedy-drama Hyde Park on Hudson (cert. 12A) starring Bill Murray as Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Tom Hooper's Les Miserables topped the UKbox office chart for the third weekend running, with the Oscar hopeful banking a healthy £4.02m to lead a top five packed with Best Picture contenders. Despite the arrival of Steven Spielberg's Lincoln and Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained held firm in second place with £2.42m,while Lincoln pulled in £1,657,337 to debut in third and Zero Dark Thirty had to settle for fifth, with its opening haul of £1,052,845 falling short of the £1.12m sixth-weekend take of Ang Lee's Life of Pi.Heading into the bottom half of the chart and Tsunami drama The Impossible also managed to break seven-figures in sixth, followed by the newly-released Movie 43, the ensemble comedy opening with £787,648 (presumably its enormous A-list cast managed to off-set all the negative reviews). Disney-Pixar's Monsters, Inc 3D slipped one place to eighth, while Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey fell three spots to ninth, having crossed £51m after seven weeks on screens. And finally, Arnold Schwarzenegger's comeback received another blow as the action comedy The Last Stand suffered a repeat of its lacklustre North American debut, banking just £538,867 to leave it wallowing in tenth.
Number one this time last year: War Horse
1. Les Misérables - £4,016,611 weekend; £24.618,896 total (3 weeks)
2. Django Unchained - £2,419,846 weekend; £7,185,499 total (2 weeks)
3. Lincoln - £1,657,337 weekend (New)
4. Life of Pi - £1,119,570 weekend; £25,957,044 total (6 weeks)
5. Zero Dark Thirty - £1,052,845 weekend (New)
6. The Impossible - £1,006,477 weekend; £10,777,332 total (3 weeks)
7. Movie 43 - £787,648 weekend (New)
8. Monsters, Inc 3D - £703,656 weekend; £1,595,962 total (2 weeks)
9. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - £623,889 weekend; £51,020,811 total (7 weeks)
10. The Last Stand - £538,867 weekend (New)
Incoming...
Friday sees the release of Robert Zemeckis' Flight (cert. 15) featuring an Academy Award-nominated turn from Denzel Washington [read our review here], along with the Sylvester Stallone action thriller Bullet to the Head (cert. 15) and the British comedy-drama Hyde Park on Hudson (cert. 12A) starring Bill Murray as Franklin D. Roosevelt.