UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 26th to Sunday 28th October 2012...
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James Bond returned to UK cinemas this past Friday in Skyfall (read our reviews here, here and here), with Daniel Craig's third outing as 007 banking a hefty £20,180,369 to claim the highest opening for a Bond film (Craig's previous efforts Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace debuted with £13m and £15m respectively), as well as the biggest UK opening of 2012, besting fellow blockbusters such as The Avengers (£15.8m), The Dark Knight Rises (£14.3m) and The Amazing Spider-Man (£11m).
As a result of the new Bond movie, UK cinemas were virtually devoid of alternative new releases, with the rest of the chart comprised of holdover films. Last week's top movie Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted made way for Skyfall at the top and slipped to second place, while the Liam Neeson action sequel Taken 2 continues to perform well and pulled in an additional £1m to hold firm in third.
Despite the run up to Halloween, Paranormal Activity 4 found itself dropping two places to fourth, while the animated monster movie Hotel Transylvania retained fifth position and Sinister and Frankenweenie swapped places with one another down in sixth and seventh. Rian Johnson's Looper dropped three spots to eighth ahead of Beasts of the Southern Wild in ninth, while Ice Age: Continental Drift reentered the chart in tenth in its 18th week of release, having expanded its screens once more to cash in on the half term holidays.
Number one this time last year: The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
1. Skyfall, £20,180,369 weekend (New)
2. Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, £2,803,874 weekend (2 weeks)
3. Taken 2, £1,004,463 weekend (4 weeks)
4. Paranormal Activity 4, £792,342 weekend (2 weeks)
5. Hotel Transylvania, £782,340 weekend (3 weeks)
6. Sinister, £310,408 weekend (4 weeks)
7. Frankenweenie, £274,780 weekend (2 weeks)
8. Looper, £221,768 weekend (5 weeks)
9. Beasts of the Southern Wild, £117,972 weekend (2 weeks)
10. Ice Age: Continental Drift, £102,952 weekend (18 weeks)
Incoming...
Nickelodeon's teen comedy Fun Size (cert 12A) opened on Monday, hoping to get a boost from the half term holiday this week, while Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (cert 15) will be looking to deliver some scares today with a Halloween opening. Meanwhile Friday brings the first new releases of November, which include Jacques Audiard's London Film Festival winner Rust and Bone (cert. 15) [read our review here], phone sexy comedy For a Good Time, Call... (cert. 18), and a limited re-release for Stanley Kubrick's classic horror The Shining (cert. 18), which features an extra twenty minutes of footage previously cut from the film here in the UK.![]()
James Bond returned to UK cinemas this past Friday in Skyfall (read our reviews here, here and here), with Daniel Craig's third outing as 007 banking a hefty £20,180,369 to claim the highest opening for a Bond film (Craig's previous efforts Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace debuted with £13m and £15m respectively), as well as the biggest UK opening of 2012, besting fellow blockbusters such as The Avengers (£15.8m), The Dark Knight Rises (£14.3m) and The Amazing Spider-Man (£11m).As a result of the new Bond movie, UK cinemas were virtually devoid of alternative new releases, with the rest of the chart comprised of holdover films. Last week's top movie Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted made way for Skyfall at the top and slipped to second place, while the Liam Neeson action sequel Taken 2 continues to perform well and pulled in an additional £1m to hold firm in third.
Despite the run up to Halloween, Paranormal Activity 4 found itself dropping two places to fourth, while the animated monster movie Hotel Transylvania retained fifth position and Sinister and Frankenweenie swapped places with one another down in sixth and seventh. Rian Johnson's Looper dropped three spots to eighth ahead of Beasts of the Southern Wild in ninth, while Ice Age: Continental Drift reentered the chart in tenth in its 18th week of release, having expanded its screens once more to cash in on the half term holidays.
Number one this time last year: The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
1. Skyfall, £20,180,369 weekend (New)
2. Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, £2,803,874 weekend (2 weeks)
3. Taken 2, £1,004,463 weekend (4 weeks)
4. Paranormal Activity 4, £792,342 weekend (2 weeks)
5. Hotel Transylvania, £782,340 weekend (3 weeks)
6. Sinister, £310,408 weekend (4 weeks)
7. Frankenweenie, £274,780 weekend (2 weeks)
8. Looper, £221,768 weekend (5 weeks)
9. Beasts of the Southern Wild, £117,972 weekend (2 weeks)
10. Ice Age: Continental Drift, £102,952 weekend (18 weeks)
Incoming...
Nickelodeon's teen comedy Fun Size (cert 12A) opened on Monday, hoping to get a boost from the half term holiday this week, while Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (cert 15) will be looking to deliver some scares today with a Halloween opening. Meanwhile Friday brings the first new releases of November, which include Jacques Audiard's London Film Festival winner Rust and Bone (cert. 15) [read our review here], phone sexy comedy For a Good Time, Call... (cert. 18), and a limited re-release for Stanley Kubrick's classic horror The Shining (cert. 18), which features an extra twenty minutes of footage previously cut from the film here in the UK.
