Despite stiff competition from three big new releases the Will Ferrell / Mark Wahlberg buddy-cop comedy The Other Guys manages to hold onto top spot in its second week of release, banking £1.29m to give it almost £4.5m here in the UK so far. Turning to the new faces, Julia Roberts' latest drama Eat Pray Love enjoyed the healthiest opening of the newcomers to take second place with £1.1m. Ben Affleck's highly-rated crime thriller The Town also broke seven figures in third, closely followed by supernatural thriller The Hole with £906k. Meanwhile horror flick Devil rounds out the top five, down three from its second-placed debut last weekend.
After ten long weeks in UK cinemas Pixar's Toy Story 3 finally exits the top five but continues to do decent business with £472k to claim sixth. Adam Sandler comedy Grown Ups slips two spots to seventh (a fate also shared by Marmaduke, which props up the chart in tenth), with Tamara Drewe dropping three places to ninth and Resident Evil: Afterlife suffering the steepest fall as it plunges from third to eighth.
Number one this time last year: Fame
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Other Guys | £1,292,144 | 2 | £4,407,746 |
| 2 | Eat Pray Love | £1,165,234 | 1 | £1,165,234 |
| 3 | The Town | £1,005,039 | 1 | £1,005,039 |
| 4 | The Hole | £906,722 | 1 | £906,722 |
| 5 | Devil | £528,908 | 2 | £1,850,009 |
| 6 | Toy Story 3 | £472,449 | 10 | £72,411,225 |
| 7 | Grown Ups | £384,119 | 5 | £6,905,161 |
| 8 | Resident Evil: Afterlife | £367,675 | 3 | £4,124,777 |
| 9 | Tamara Drewe | £245,643 | 3 | £2,103,959 |
| 10 | Marmaduke | £244,285 | 6 | £4,812,133 |
Incoming...
If you suffer from claustrophobia then you may want to look at alternatives to Ryan Reynolds' latest film Buried (cert. 15), a confined thriller about a man trapped in a coffin somewhere in the Iraq desert [read our rather glowing review here]. Other possibilities hitting cinemas this Friday include the British comedy-drama Made in Dagenham (cert. 15) and bank-heist thriller Takers (12A), along with a special 25th anniversary re-release of Robert Zemeckis' classic 80s time travel comedy Back to the Future (cert. PG).
U.K. Box Office Archive
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