UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 25th – Sunday 27th November 2011…
There was little surprise at the UK box office this past weekend as The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 pulled in another £4.6m in receipts, with the fourth entry in the hugely popular vampire romance series pushing its grand total to £23.3m after just 10 days on screens. It’s certainly been a good start for the penultimate installment and although its hardly pushing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 – which had amassed a hefty £44.3m at the same stage of release – it’s already the sixth biggest film of the year on these shores.
After a somewhat disappointing opening, Aardman Animations’ Arthur Christmas retains second place for the third week consecutive week (and also manages to increase its haul for the third week in a row), while £749,819 is enough to place My Week with Marilyn in third, making it the highest of six new entries in the chart and pushing The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn and Immortals down one place apiece to fourth and fifth respectively.
Moving on and it’s nearly all change in the bottom half of the chart, with the only familiar face being the Justin Timberlake sci-fi thriller In Time, which falls three spots from last week to finish up in eighth. Placing above that is 50/50, with the Seth Rogen / Joseph Gordon-Levitt cancer comedy taking in £410k to claim sixth, while the Daniel Craig / Rachel Weisz thriller Dream House opens in seventh with £304k. Bollywood comedy Desi Boyz enjoys a solid debut in ninth with £243k, leaving baseball drama Moneyball to pick up the wooden spoon in tenth with £230k.
Number one this time last year: Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows: Part 1
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 | £4,574,978 | 2 | £23,310,686 |
| 2 | Arthur Christmas |
£2,526,285 | 3 | £8,048,183 |
| 3 | My Week with Marilyn |
£749,819 | 1 | £749,819 |
| 4 | The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn | £712,398 | 5 | £15,063,616 |
| 5 | Immortals | £534,163 | 3 | £5,404,986 |
| 6 | 50/50 | £410,251 | 1 | £410,251 |
| 7 | Dream House |
£304,239 | 1 | £304,239 |
| 8 | In Time | £258,840 | 4 | £5,026,901 |
| 9 | Desi Boyz |
£243,792 | 1 | £243,792 |
| 10 | Moneyball | £230,848 | 1 | £230,848 |
Incoming…
As December approaches, two 3D family films will look to challenge for the UK box office crown with Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (cert. TBC) and George Miller’s animated sequel Happy Feet Two (cert. U), while other new releases include the Jack Black / Owen Wilson / Steve Martin comedy The Big Year (cert. PG) and horror ‘premake’ The Thing (cert. 15) [read our review here].
U.K. Box Office Archive
Originally published November 29, 2011. Updated April 10, 2018.
