UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 23rd - Sunday 25th November 2012...
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Despite stiff competition from A-list talent such as Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Colin Firth, Cameron Diaz and Jake Gyllenhaal, the British ensemble comedy sequel Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger! was the highest new entry of the week, with a solid £1,614,675 opening enough to claim third place behind reigning champion The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 and box office juggernaut Skyfall. The final Twilight movie added another £5.34m to retain first place, while 007's latest adventure continued to inch towards Avatar's UK record of £93.4m, with another £3.8m giving Skyfall a total of £89.6m after five weekends on screens.
Number one this time last year: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
1. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, £5,344,598 weekend; £26,979,458 total (2 weeks)
2. Skyfall, £3,809,893 weekend; £89,620,677 total (5 weeks)
3. Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger!, £1,614,675 weekend (New)
4. Silver Linings Playbook, £1,260,979 weekend (New)
5. Gambit, £689,042 weekend (New)
6. Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, £637,130 weekend; £21,405,074 total (6 weeks)
7. End of Watch, £618,546 weekend (New)
8. Argo, £495,689 weekend; £3,869,361 total (3 weeks)
9. The Master, £201,844 weekend; £1,002,270 total (4 weeks)
10. Jab Tak Hai Jaan, £198,671 weekend; £1,302,581 total (2 weeks)
Incoming...
There'squite a selection of new releases to choose from this coming Friday, including the CG animated fantasy adventure Rise of the Guardians (cert. PG), Mike Newell's Dickens adaptation Great Expectations (cert. 12A), Clint Eastwood baseball drama Trouble with the Curve (cert. 12A) [read our review here], James Patterson adaptation Alex Cross (cert. 15), Danish drama The Hunt (cert. 15) [read our review here] and British filmmaker Ben Wheatley's latest, Sightseers (cert. 15) [read our review here].![]()
Moving on and David O. Russell's latest Silver Linings Playbook debuted in fourth place with £1,260,979, followed by another new release, the Coen brothers-scriped Gambit, in fifth with £689,042. In the bottom half of the chart, the CG animated sequel Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted slipped three places to sixth, while David Ayer's acclaimed cop thriller End of Watch pulled in £618,546 to debut in seventh position. Both Argo and The Masterdrop two spots apiece to eighth and ninth respectively, leaving the Bollywood romance Jab Tak Hai Jaan to round out the chart in tenth in its second weekend.
Number one this time last year: The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1
1. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2, £5,344,598 weekend; £26,979,458 total (2 weeks)
2. Skyfall, £3,809,893 weekend; £89,620,677 total (5 weeks)
3. Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger!, £1,614,675 weekend (New)
4. Silver Linings Playbook, £1,260,979 weekend (New)
5. Gambit, £689,042 weekend (New)
6. Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, £637,130 weekend; £21,405,074 total (6 weeks)
7. End of Watch, £618,546 weekend (New)
8. Argo, £495,689 weekend; £3,869,361 total (3 weeks)
9. The Master, £201,844 weekend; £1,002,270 total (4 weeks)
10. Jab Tak Hai Jaan, £198,671 weekend; £1,302,581 total (2 weeks)
Incoming...
There'squite a selection of new releases to choose from this coming Friday, including the CG animated fantasy adventure Rise of the Guardians (cert. PG), Mike Newell's Dickens adaptation Great Expectations (cert. 12A), Clint Eastwood baseball drama Trouble with the Curve (cert. 12A) [read our review here], James Patterson adaptation Alex Cross (cert. 15), Danish drama The Hunt (cert. 15) [read our review here] and British filmmaker Ben Wheatley's latest, Sightseers (cert. 15) [read our review here].
