It looks like there's still plenty of life in the Meet The Parents franchise as third installment Little Fockers takes the Christmas number one spot with a decent haul of £3m. Little Fockers also manages to repeat the feat over in the States where it pulled in just over $30m this past weekend so expect to see more of the Robert De Niro / Ben Stiller double-act before too long, although surely the series will run out of steam before we get to Meet the Great-Grandparents some time around 2025.
Also enjoying a healthy festive season is The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, which is the only film in the top ten to retain its position from last week as it holds firm in second place with £929k. Less fortunate is Disney's big-budget sci-fi sequel Tron: Legacy, which falls to third after debuting in the top spot last week, while Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 slips one to fourth and pushes its total gross beyond £46m.
The chart is also home to two other newcomers this week; Bollywood action thriller Tees Mar Khan takes fifth with a strong opening haul of £319k, while Luc Besson's fantasy sequel Arthur and the Great Adventure manages to take in just £83k to finish up in ninth. Meanwhile animated offerings Megamind and Animals United fall one apiece to sixth and eighth respectively, with The Tourist down three to ninth and Burlesque suffering the steepest decline as it plunges four to prop up the chart in tenth.
Number one this time last year: Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Little Fockers | £3,035,717 | 1 | |
| 2 | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | £929,958 | 3 | |
| 3 | Tron: Legacy | £486,065 | 2 | |
| 4 | Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 | £416,556 | 6 | |
| 5 | Tees Mar Khan | £319,870 | 1 | |
| 6 | Megamind | £303,861 | 4 | |
| 7 | The Tourist | £164,836 | 3 | |
| 8 | Animals United | £157,858 | 2 | |
| 9 | Arthur and the Great Adventure | £83,875 | 1 | |
| 10 | Burlesque | £81,574 | 2 |
Incoming...
With Peter Weir's epic WWII tale The Way Back (cert. 12A) and family adventure Gulliver's Travels (cert. PG) both opening this past Sunday and Love and Other Drugs (cert. 15) arriving yesterday, there's little in the way of new releases to look forward to this coming weekend. In fact, the only 'new' film hitting screens is a limited reissue of the Howard Hawks classic The Big Sleep (cert. PG) starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, which opens on Friday.
U.K. Box Office Archive
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