With a line-up that includes Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger and director Sylvester Stallone, action ensemble The Expendables proves too much for Angelina Jolie's Salt and takes first place in the chart with £3.9m (including £1.8m from previews last Saturday and Sunday) as torrential rain across the country results in a bumper weekend for the UK box office. Salt also benefits from two days of preview screenings to claim second with £2.1m as Toy Story 3 finally vacates the top spot five weeks into its record-breaking run (with £63.8m, the Pixar animation now stands at fifth in the all-time UK rankings). Meanwhile two other new releases debut in the top five with horror remake Piranha 3D banking £1.4m and family comedy Marmaduke pulling in £1.2m to take fourth and fifth respectively.
After climbing back up the charts these past few weeks Christopher Nolan's Inception finally drops out of the top half but manages to add another £1m to push its total gross to £31.5m, while M. Night Shyamalan's The Last Airbender and Disney's live-action fantasy The Sorcerer's Apprentice also drop five spaces to eighth and tenth. Slightly more fortunate are Knight and Day and Step Up 3D, both of which fall three places to seventh and ninth.
Number one this time last year: Inglourious Basterds
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Expendables | £3,910,596 | 1 | £3,910,596 |
| 2 | Salt | £2,166,715 | 1 | £2,166,715 |
| 3 | Toy Story 3 | £2,095,540 | 5 | £63,810,363 |
| 4 | Pirahna 3D | £1,487,119 | 1 | £1,487,119 |
| 5 | Marmaduke | £1,243,789 | 1 | £1,243,789 |
| 6 | Inception | £1,063,679 | 6 | £31,563,941 |
| 7 | Knight and Day | £825,692 | 3 | £7,953,038 |
| 8 | The Last Airbender | £586,576 | 2 | £3,310,105 |
| 9 | Step Up 3D | £507,942 | 3 | £6,636,616 |
| 10 | The Sorcerer's Apprentice | £439,527 | 2 | £2,370,535 |
Incoming...
Brit director Edgar Wright unleashes the comic-book adaptation Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (cert. 12A) this coming Wednesday against competition from Diary of a Wimpy Kid (cert. PG) and will be hoping to better a disappointing fifth place opening in North America. Watch the trailer for Scott Pilgrim vs The World, and check out or review of Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
A number of new releases also arrive on Friday including comedy ensemble Grown Ups (cert. 12A) and Swedish thriller The Girl Who Played With Fire (cert. 15), along with Bollywood dramas Chak Jawana (cert. TBC) and Aashayein (cert. TBC). And of course, if you've been living on Pandora for the past nine months and haven't yet contributed to the global box office haul of $2.7b or dropped twenty-odd quid on the DVD or Blu-ray, there's always the 3D release of Avatar: Special Edition to look forward to, with a whole eight minutes of extra footage!
U.K. Box Office Archive
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