UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 21st - Sunday 23rd September 2012...
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Having lost out on first place last weekend thanks to two extra days of preview screenings for The Sweeney, the stop-motion animation ParaNorman scared away competition from new arrivals Killing Them Softly and The House at the End of the Street to climb to first place at the UK box office with a second-weekend haul of £1,219,194. It was also the only movie to crack seven figures, as the Brad Pitt mob thriller Killing Them Softly opened in second with £955,506, and the low budget Jennifer Lawrence horror House at the End of the Street pulled in £796,041 for third.
Elsewhere, Nick Love's big screen reboot of The Sweeney dropped three places to third in its second weekend as fellow sophomore release Hope Springs climbed one place to fifth. Keira Knightley and Joe Wright's latest costume drama Anna Karenina fell three to sixth, while Disney-Pixar's Brave held firm in seventh and - following Ted's departure from the chart this week - is now the highest-grossing film in the top ten with just over £20.7 million in the bank. Less fortunate are Lawless and Dredd 3D, both of which plunged four in their third weekend and look just about ready for the count in eighth and ninth respectively, while Oliver Stone's latest offering Savages barely made an impact, pulling in just £379,898 from 379 screens to open in tenth.
Number one this time last year: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1. ParaNorman, £1,219,194 weekend; £2,949,595 (2 weeks)
2. Killing Them Softly, £955,506 weekend (New)
3. House at the End of the Street, £796,041 weekend (New)
4. The Sweeney, £727,742 weekend; £2,984,390 total (2 weeks)
5. Hope Springs, £625,201 weekend; £2,048,177 total (2 weeks)
6. Anna Karenina, £509,196 weekend; £3,942,747 (3 weeks)
7. Brave, £468,182 weekend; £20,714,530 total (8 weeks - 2 weeks from Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland only)
8. Lawless, £413,652 weekend; £3,539,610 total (3 weeks)
9. Dredd 3D, £382,359 weekend; £3,696,772 total (3 weeks)
10. Savages, £379,898 weekend (New)
Incoming...
Friday sees Paul W.S. Anderson reteaming with Milla Jovovich for the latest instalment in the Resident Evil feature film series, Resident Evil: Retribution (cert. 15), while other new releases include the Will Ferrell / Zach Galifianakis election comedy The Campaign (cert. 15), and the latest Rian Johnson / Joseph Gordon-Levitt collaboration Looper (cert. 15) [read our review here].![]()
Having lost out on first place last weekend thanks to two extra days of preview screenings for The Sweeney, the stop-motion animation ParaNorman scared away competition from new arrivals Killing Them Softly and The House at the End of the Street to climb to first place at the UK box office with a second-weekend haul of £1,219,194. It was also the only movie to crack seven figures, as the Brad Pitt mob thriller Killing Them Softly opened in second with £955,506, and the low budget Jennifer Lawrence horror House at the End of the Street pulled in £796,041 for third.Elsewhere, Nick Love's big screen reboot of The Sweeney dropped three places to third in its second weekend as fellow sophomore release Hope Springs climbed one place to fifth. Keira Knightley and Joe Wright's latest costume drama Anna Karenina fell three to sixth, while Disney-Pixar's Brave held firm in seventh and - following Ted's departure from the chart this week - is now the highest-grossing film in the top ten with just over £20.7 million in the bank. Less fortunate are Lawless and Dredd 3D, both of which plunged four in their third weekend and look just about ready for the count in eighth and ninth respectively, while Oliver Stone's latest offering Savages barely made an impact, pulling in just £379,898 from 379 screens to open in tenth.
Number one this time last year: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
1. ParaNorman, £1,219,194 weekend; £2,949,595 (2 weeks)
2. Killing Them Softly, £955,506 weekend (New)
3. House at the End of the Street, £796,041 weekend (New)
4. The Sweeney, £727,742 weekend; £2,984,390 total (2 weeks)
5. Hope Springs, £625,201 weekend; £2,048,177 total (2 weeks)
6. Anna Karenina, £509,196 weekend; £3,942,747 (3 weeks)
7. Brave, £468,182 weekend; £20,714,530 total (8 weeks - 2 weeks from Scotland, Ireland and Northern Ireland only)
8. Lawless, £413,652 weekend; £3,539,610 total (3 weeks)
9. Dredd 3D, £382,359 weekend; £3,696,772 total (3 weeks)
10. Savages, £379,898 weekend (New)
Incoming...
Friday sees Paul W.S. Anderson reteaming with Milla Jovovich for the latest instalment in the Resident Evil feature film series, Resident Evil: Retribution (cert. 15), while other new releases include the Will Ferrell / Zach Galifianakis election comedy The Campaign (cert. 15), and the latest Rian Johnson / Joseph Gordon-Levitt collaboration Looper (cert. 15) [read our review here].
