UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 9th to Sunday 11th August 2013...
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It's all change at the UK box office this past weekend, with five new arrivals breaking into the top ten. Leading the pack is Steve Coogan's first big screen outing as Alan Partridge, with the British comedy pulling in £2,175,850 (including £744,000 from Wednesday and Thursday previews) to narrowly take first place ahead of Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, with the fantasy sequel banking £2,137,835 including previews of £861,000.
In third place is another sequel, with the comedy Grown Ups 2 pulling in £2,075,831 over the three-day weekend, which would have been more than enough to claim top spot were it not for the extra two days of previews boosting the takings of Alpha Papa and Sea of Monsters. Meanwhile Disney’s big budget flop The Lone Ranger continued its box office run, opening in fifth with just £1,342,196 (some £300,000 less than Johnny Depp and Gore Verbinski’s last collaboration Rango), while the Bollywood action comedy Chennai Express pulled in a solid £935,671 to finish up in tenth.
Finally, despite slipping out of the top ten this week, the animated comedy Despicable Me 2 has now become the UK’s biggest earner of 2013, overtaking Les Miserables’ £40.66 million with an impressive £40.82 million to date. With the summer almost over, it looks like the main challenge for 2013’s highest grossing UK release will come from Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, although The Hunger Games: Catching Fire could also have an outside chance…
Number one this time last year: Ted
1. Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa - £2,175,850 weekend (New)
2. Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters - £2,137,835 weekend (New)
3. Grown Ups 2 - £2,075,831 weekend (New)
4. The Conjuring - £1,620,713 weekend (2 weeks)
5. The Lone Ranger - £1,342,196 weekend (New)
6. Monsters University - £1,200,912 weekend (5 weeks)
7. The Smurfs 2 - £1,137,593 weekend (2 weeks)
8. The Heat - £954,132 weekend (2 weeks)
9. The Wolverine - £936,956 weekend (3 weeks)
10 Chennai Express - £935,671 weekend (New)
Incoming...
Today sees the release of the year's fourth superhero movie in Kick-Ass 2 (cert. 15) [read our reviews here and here], while Friday brings several newcomers including Disney's Pixar spin-off Planes (cert. U) [read our review here], the Mark Wahlberg / Denzel Washington action comedy 2 Guns (cert. 15) [read our review here and check out our exclusive interview with Mark Wahlberg here], earthquake horror Aftershock (cert. 18), comedy Bachelorette (cert. 15) and documentary When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun (cert. TBC).
It's all change at the UK box office this past weekend, with five new arrivals breaking into the top ten. Leading the pack is Steve Coogan's first big screen outing as Alan Partridge, with the British comedy pulling in £2,175,850 (including £744,000 from Wednesday and Thursday previews) to narrowly take first place ahead of Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, with the fantasy sequel banking £2,137,835 including previews of £861,000. In third place is another sequel, with the comedy Grown Ups 2 pulling in £2,075,831 over the three-day weekend, which would have been more than enough to claim top spot were it not for the extra two days of previews boosting the takings of Alpha Papa and Sea of Monsters. Meanwhile Disney’s big budget flop The Lone Ranger continued its box office run, opening in fifth with just £1,342,196 (some £300,000 less than Johnny Depp and Gore Verbinski’s last collaboration Rango), while the Bollywood action comedy Chennai Express pulled in a solid £935,671 to finish up in tenth.
Finally, despite slipping out of the top ten this week, the animated comedy Despicable Me 2 has now become the UK’s biggest earner of 2013, overtaking Les Miserables’ £40.66 million with an impressive £40.82 million to date. With the summer almost over, it looks like the main challenge for 2013’s highest grossing UK release will come from Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, although The Hunger Games: Catching Fire could also have an outside chance…
Number one this time last year: Ted
1. Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa - £2,175,850 weekend (New)
2. Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters - £2,137,835 weekend (New)
3. Grown Ups 2 - £2,075,831 weekend (New)
4. The Conjuring - £1,620,713 weekend (2 weeks)
5. The Lone Ranger - £1,342,196 weekend (New)
6. Monsters University - £1,200,912 weekend (5 weeks)
7. The Smurfs 2 - £1,137,593 weekend (2 weeks)
8. The Heat - £954,132 weekend (2 weeks)
9. The Wolverine - £936,956 weekend (3 weeks)
10 Chennai Express - £935,671 weekend (New)
Incoming...
Today sees the release of the year's fourth superhero movie in Kick-Ass 2 (cert. 15) [read our reviews here and here], while Friday brings several newcomers including Disney's Pixar spin-off Planes (cert. U) [read our review here], the Mark Wahlberg / Denzel Washington action comedy 2 Guns (cert. 15) [read our review here and check out our exclusive interview with Mark Wahlberg here], earthquake horror Aftershock (cert. 18), comedy Bachelorette (cert. 15) and documentary When the Dragon Swallowed the Sun (cert. TBC).