It's all change at the top of the UK box office for this past weekend with the three top spots occupied by new releases. First up is Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, which banks £1.78m (including two days of preview screenings) to debut in first place. Meanwhile Shia LaBeouf's Transformers colleague Josh Duhamel takes second with the Kathrine Heigl rom-com Life As We Know It (falling just short of seven figures with £985k), leaving Zac Efron drama Charlie St. Cloud to settle for third with £643k. After spending three weeks atop of the chart Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg's The Other Guys slides three places to fourth, a fate also shared by crime thriller The Town in fifth. Joe Dante supernatural thriller The Hole and Brit drama Made in Dagenham fare a little better, dropping just one place apiece to sixth and seventh respectively.
Heading towards the foot of the chart, Julia Roberts drama Eat Pray Love falls four places to eighth but the biggest decline is reserved for the Ryan Reynolds thriller Buried, which plummets to ninth from a third-placed opening last week. Finally Pixar's Toy Story 3 rounds out the top ten and looks set to depart after twelve long weeks that has seen it climb to number two in the all-time UK box office records.
Other new releases that failed to make their mark on the chart include Rhys Ifans' Mr. Nice, Euro-animation A Town Called Panic and war documentary Restrepo.
Number one this time last year: Up
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps | £1,784,309 | 1 | £1,784,309 |
| 2 | Life As We Know It | £985,558 | 1 | £985,558 |
| 3 | Charlie St. Cloud | £643,368 | 1 | £643,368 |
| 4 | The Other Guys | £637,022 | 4 | £7,131,628 |
| 5 | The Town | £582,953 | 3 | £3,748,461 |
| 6 | The Hole | £507,254 | 3 | £2,570,678 |
| 7 | Made in Dagenham | £507,161 | 2 | £1,790,930 |
| 8 | Eat Pray Love | £403,938 | 3 | £3,830,497 |
| 9 | Buried | £327,028 | 2 | £1,552,556 |
| 10 | Toy Story 3 | £261,359 | 12 | £73,265,574 |
Incoming...
There should be some competition at the top of the UK box office this coming Friday as 3D family comedy Despicable Me (cert. U) [read our review here] squares off against David Fincher's highly-rated biopic The Social Network (cert. 12A).
Meanwhile those with masochistic tendencies could be drawn to Twilight spoof Vampire's Suck (cert. 12A), which will hopefully put a stake in the heart of Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer's careers (although with $60m in the bank so far against a $20m budget, I guess that's pretty unlikely).
U.K. Box Office Archive
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