UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 30th August to Sunday 1st September 2013...
![One Direction: This Is Us]( "One Direction: This Is Us")
Number one this time last year: Total Recall
1. One Direction: This Is Us - £3,471,872 weekend (New)
2. Elysium- £1,210,315 weekend; £5,896,129 total (2 weeks)
3. We're the Millers - £1,122,303 weekend; £4,059,023 total (2 weeks)
4. Pain & Gain - £1,016,136 weekend (New)
5. Planes- £797,311 weekend; £5,862,200 total (3 weeks)
6. The Way Way Back - £532,487 weekend (New)
7. You're Next - £523,549 weekend (New)
8. Grown Ups 2 - £416,161 weekend; £7,438,612 total (4 weeks)
9. Despicable Me 2 - £394,650 weekend; £44,811,674 total (9 weeks)
10. Monsters University - £389,339 weekend; £28,527,915 total (8 weeks)
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Today brings two contenders for top spot in this weekend's chart, with Richard Curtis' About Time (cert. 12A) [read our review here] going up against the Vin Diesel sci-fi sequel Riddick (cert. 15), while Friday's new releases include horror No One Lives (cert. 18) [read our review here], dramas Ain't Them Bodies Saints (cert. 15) and Any Day Now (cert. 15) and documentaries The Great Hip Hop Hoax (cert. 18) [read our review here] and More Than Honey (cert. TBC).
One Direction have shot to the top of the UK box office chart, with Morgan Spurlock's music documentary / concert flick This Is Us pulling in a solid £3,471,872, which included £1.27 million of Thursday previews, giving the boy band the largest opening for a concert movie since Michael Jackson's This Is It debuted with £4.88 million back in 2009.
In addition to One Direction, three other new releases managed to crack the top ten this past weekend, with Michael Bay's Pain & Gain the only one able to break seven figures, the crime caper earning £1,016,136 to take fourth behind Elysium and We're the Millers. Indie comedy-drama The Way Way Back took sixth with £532,487, followed by home invasion horror You're Next in seventh with £523,549.
Looking further down the chart and Despicable Me 2 extended its position as the UK highest-grossing movie of 2013, with the CG animated sequel falling just shy of the £45 million mark after 9 weeks on screens. With the summer now over, it looks like only real challenge to Despeciable Me 2's dominance will come from The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, although The Hunger Games: Catching Fire could also be an outside bet.
Number one this time last year: Total Recall
1. One Direction: This Is Us - £3,471,872 weekend (New)
2. Elysium- £1,210,315 weekend; £5,896,129 total (2 weeks)
3. We're the Millers - £1,122,303 weekend; £4,059,023 total (2 weeks)
4. Pain & Gain - £1,016,136 weekend (New)
5. Planes- £797,311 weekend; £5,862,200 total (3 weeks)
6. The Way Way Back - £532,487 weekend (New)
7. You're Next - £523,549 weekend (New)
8. Grown Ups 2 - £416,161 weekend; £7,438,612 total (4 weeks)
9. Despicable Me 2 - £394,650 weekend; £44,811,674 total (9 weeks)
10. Monsters University - £389,339 weekend; £28,527,915 total (8 weeks)
Incoming...
Today brings two contenders for top spot in this weekend's chart, with Richard Curtis' About Time (cert. 12A) [read our review here] going up against the Vin Diesel sci-fi sequel Riddick (cert. 15), while Friday's new releases include horror No One Lives (cert. 18) [read our review here], dramas Ain't Them Bodies Saints (cert. 15) and Any Day Now (cert. 15) and documentaries The Great Hip Hop Hoax (cert. 18) [read our review here] and More Than Honey (cert. TBC).