UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 19th - Sunday 21st April 2013...
![Olympus Has Fallen]( "Olympus Has Fallen")
Antoine Fuqua's Olympus Has Fallen debuted in first place at the UK box office this past weekend, with the Gerard Butler-headlined White House action thriller banking £2,247,900 to push Tom Cruise's sci-fi Oblivion down into second. However, Oblivion's£1.66 million would have been enough to hold on to top spot if it weren't for two days of preview screenings giving Olympus Has Fallen a £650k boost. The only other film to break seven figures was Fede Alvarez's horror remake Evil Dead, which opened in third with £1,375,842, while The Croods and The Place Beyond the Pines both falling to fourth and fifth.
Shifting into the bottom half of the chart and Scary Movie 5 fell three places to sixth, followed by another newcomer, Love Is All You Need, which debuted with a disappointing £202,176 (although it fared better than Matt Damon's latest Promised Land, which only pulled in £53,000 from the same number of screens, and failed to make an impact in the top ten). Meanwhile three familiar faces occupied the remaining spots, with G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Jack the Giant Slayer and Oz the Great and Powerful all clinging on to a place in the chart but likely to flatline when Iron Man 3 explodes into cinemas this week.
Number one this time last year: Battleship
1 - Olympus Has Fallen - £2,247,900 weekend; (New)
2 - Oblivion - £1,656,895 weekend; £8,058,971 (2 weeks)
3 - Evil Dead - £1,375,842 weekend (New)
4 - The Croods - £678,951 weekend; £23,748,531 (5 weeks)
5 - The Place Beyond the Pines - £580,790 weekend; £1,648,455 (2 weeks)
6 - Scary Movie 5 - £453,099 weekend; £1,983,601 (2 weeks)
7 - Love Is All You Need - £202,176 weekend (New)
8 - G.I. Joe: Retaliation - £191,201 weekend; £7,288,281 (4 weeks)
9 - Jack the Giant Slayer - £153,295 weekend; £7,347,344 (5 weeks)
10 - Oz the Great and Powerful - £137,363 weekend; £14,886,744 (6 weeks)
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The big release this week is of course the superhero sequel Iron Man 3 (12A), which kicks off Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe when it hits screens on Thursday and will surely lay down the biggest opening of the year to date. For the handful of people out there looking for something different this weekend, there are a few alternatives opening on Friday, including Michael Winterbottom's The Look of Love (cert. 18) starring Steve Coogan and Anna Friel, and Richard Linklater's Bernie (cert. 12A), which features Jack Black, Shirley Maclaine and Matthew McConaughey.
Shifting into the bottom half of the chart and Scary Movie 5 fell three places to sixth, followed by another newcomer, Love Is All You Need, which debuted with a disappointing £202,176 (although it fared better than Matt Damon's latest Promised Land, which only pulled in £53,000 from the same number of screens, and failed to make an impact in the top ten). Meanwhile three familiar faces occupied the remaining spots, with G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Jack the Giant Slayer and Oz the Great and Powerful all clinging on to a place in the chart but likely to flatline when Iron Man 3 explodes into cinemas this week.
Number one this time last year: Battleship
1 - Olympus Has Fallen - £2,247,900 weekend; (New)
2 - Oblivion - £1,656,895 weekend; £8,058,971 (2 weeks)
3 - Evil Dead - £1,375,842 weekend (New)
4 - The Croods - £678,951 weekend; £23,748,531 (5 weeks)
5 - The Place Beyond the Pines - £580,790 weekend; £1,648,455 (2 weeks)
6 - Scary Movie 5 - £453,099 weekend; £1,983,601 (2 weeks)
7 - Love Is All You Need - £202,176 weekend (New)
8 - G.I. Joe: Retaliation - £191,201 weekend; £7,288,281 (4 weeks)
9 - Jack the Giant Slayer - £153,295 weekend; £7,347,344 (5 weeks)
10 - Oz the Great and Powerful - £137,363 weekend; £14,886,744 (6 weeks)
Incoming...
The big release this week is of course the superhero sequel Iron Man 3 (12A), which kicks off Phase Two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe when it hits screens on Thursday and will surely lay down the biggest opening of the year to date. For the handful of people out there looking for something different this weekend, there are a few alternatives opening on Friday, including Michael Winterbottom's The Look of Love (cert. 18) starring Steve Coogan and Anna Friel, and Richard Linklater's Bernie (cert. 12A), which features Jack Black, Shirley Maclaine and Matthew McConaughey.