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Highest chart position: 1
Weeks on box office: 32
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The top 15 movies in the UK this week failed to take over £100,000 as much of the UK is experiencing new lockdowns and many cinemas will have been closed on Friday, Christmas Day.
Wonder Woman 1984 retained its position at the top of the box office with ease and is responsible for 77% of this weeks box office total takings and as there were no new releases we have a fairly static top 5.
Worthy of note this week is that the number 15 movie, Michael Ball & Alfie Boe: Back Together, only took £548 and the movie with the lowest weekly from was Peter Duncan Presents Jack And The Beanstalk which dropped 60% from last weekend.
UK box office Quickview.
- Number 1 - Wonder Woman 1984 (2nd week)
- Highest debut - The Greatest Showman (Re-entered at 4)
- Longest run - Honest Thief (9 weeks)
- Highest total gross - Wonder Woman 1984 (£1,377,049)
Uk box office top 5 breakdown weekend 25th - 27th December 2020.
Wonder Woman 1984
After its vaguely successful debut last weekend the Wonder Woman sequel once again directed by Patty Jenkins stays at the top of the UK box office but with a 91% drop from last weekend giving it weekend gross of £72,674.
The movie starring Gal Gadot as the superhero has now taken £1.3 Million at the UK box office.
Home Alone
With Elf taking a tumble down the box office to number 6 the Christmas favourite from 1990 jumps up to number 2 this week with £3,840, a 93% drop from last week.
Since the movie came out in December 1990, 30 years ago, it has grossed £9.7 Million.
Come Away
Entering the chart at 4 on its debut last weekend the Brenda Chapman fantasy drama jumps to number 3 this week with £3,245, 92% down from last week, for a total gross of £77,362.
The Greatest Showman
Three years after Hugh Jackmans song and dance spectacular surprised the box office the 2017 movie gets another release and re-enters the box office at 4 this week with £3,231 giving the film total gross a boost to £49.6 Million.
Superintelligence
Ben Falcone directs his wife Mellisa McCarthy in this comedy which jumps to number 5 this week with £2,254, 88% down from last weekend, giving the films a total gross of £142,455 after 3 weeks.
The tough year for cinemas across the UK continues but once again Warner Bros. release a major blockbuster in this market, this time the DC Universe movie Wonder Woman 1984, which after may delays in 2020 makes its debut at the top.
Also new inside the top 5 is Come Away which makes its debut at number 4 and then dropping outside the top 10 there is the cinematic showing of The Nutcracker: Bolshoi Ballet 2020 at 13 and perhaps a little disappointing the Diane Lane and Kevin Costner US hit Let Him Go at 15.
The top 15 movies is totally dominated once again by Christmas catalogue films which makes up 51% of this week chart.
UK box office Quickview
- Number 1 - Wonder Woman 1984 (1st Weekend)
- Highest debut - Wonder Woman 1984 (@1)
- Longest run - Two By Two: Overboard! (9 weeks)*
- Highest total gross - Two By Two: Overboard! (£1,071,693)* *Not including re-release catalogue movies
Here is the top 5 box office movie breakdown 18th - 20th December 2020.
Wonder Woman 1984
Warner Bros. have released 2 potential blockbusters during the pandemic, Tenet back in August which was supposed to re-invigorate the box office and now this DC Universe movie, no other studio has done this, and looking at the box office tickets you can perhaps see why!
The Wonder Woman sequel opens in the UK during a very difficult time for cinemas as a majority of the country is in a forces lockdown, and cinemas that are open can only fill to about 25% because of the pandemic which is just getting worse.
The movie opens to a weekend box office of £846,435 (since its Wednesday openeing) although this is 70% of the total weekend marketplace.
The movie gets a VOD release in the UK mid January.
Elf
Last weeks number 1 movie falls to number 2 this week with £83,623, a 15% drop from last weekend giving the movie a total gross since release of £17 Million.
Home Alone
Another Christmas classic and for number 1 falls to 3 this weekend with £56,261, a 36% drop over last weekend, which gives the film a nearly £10 Million total since its 1990 release.
Come Away
Second highest debut of the weekend is at 4, this Brenda Chapman directed drama about some siblings falling into a world of fantasy and imagination after a family tragedy takes £42,834 on its first weekend.
Love Actually
Finishing off the top 5 is the british Christmas classic from write director Richard Curtis which takes £20,430 over the weekend, 52% down from last weekend, its total is now £36.9 Million since its 2003 release.
Cinema closures still effect the UK box office in 2020 so we take a look at past box office weeks over the last 30 years.
A year ago (2019)
No. 1 and highest debut:
Jumanji: The Next Level starring Dwayne Johnson and Jack Black and directed by Jake Kasdan
Longest run:
Home Alone which had been on the box office for 27 weeks.
Top total grossing:
Frozen II which had taken £38.3 Million after 4 weeks of release.
Five years ago (2015)
No.1 movie:
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 which had been at the top for 4 weeks.
Highest debut:
directed by and starring which entered the box office at number 5.
Top total grossing and longest run:
Spectre which had taken £92 Million over 7 weeks of release.
Ten years ago (2010)
No. 1 and Highest debut:
TRON Legacy starring Jeff Bridges and Garrett Hedlund and directed by Joseph Kosinski
Longest run:
Due Date which had been on the box office for 7 weeks.
Top total grossing:
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1 which had taken £44.4 Million after 5 weeks of release.
Fifteen years ago (2005)
No. 1 and highest debut:
King Kong starring Naomi Watts and Jack Black and directed by Peter Jackson
Longest run:
Nanny Mcphee which had been on the box office for 9 weeks.
Top total grossing:
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire which had taken £42.3 Million after 5 weeks of release.
Twenty years ago (2000)
No. 1 and highest debut:
Meet The Parents starring Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller and directed by Jay Roach
Top total grossing and longest run:
Billy Elliot which had taken £16.6 Million over 12 weeks of release.
Twenty five years ago (1995)
No. 1 and highest debut:
Babe starring Christine Cavanaugh and Miriam Margolyes and directed by Chris Noonan
Longest run:
Crimson Tide which had been on the box office for 7 weeks.
Top total grossing:
Goldeneye which had taken £16 Million after 4 weeks of release.
Thirty years ago (1990)
No. 1 movie:
Home Alone which had been at the top for 1 weeks and with a total gross of £4.3 Million it was also the top total grossing film.
Highest Debut:
Miami Blues directed by George Armitage and starring Fred Ward and Alec Baldwin which entered the box office at number 3.
Longest run:
Betsys Wedding which had been on the box office for 8 weeks.
As cinemas start to re-open, and in some places close again, Christmas classics once again dominate the box office with the Will Farrell movie Elf remaining at the top for a second weekend.
The top new movie was the concert film of Little Mix and right behind that was Superintelligence, further down the top 15 pantomime movie Peter Duncan Presents Jack And The Beanstalk was new at 11 while Dreamland was new at 14.
The top 15 movie took a total of £627,505 which is double that of last week and with Wonder Woman 1984 set for release on Wednesday 16th December we could see some impressive numbers next weekend.
UK box office Quickview.
- Number 1 - Elf (2nd Week)
- Highest debut - Little Mix: LM5 - The Tour Film (@3)
- Longerst run - Honest Thief (8 weeks)*
- Highest total gross - Two By Two: Overboard! (£1,052,094)* *Not including re-releases
Here is a breakdown of the top 5 box office movies 11th - 13th December 2020
Elf
Directed by Jon Favreau the holiday favourite from 2003 spends a second weekend at the top of the UK box office taking £98,157, 51% up from last weekend.
The movie only made number 2 on its initial release, the film has now taken £17.1 Million since its 2003 release.
Home Alone
Another holiday classic spends a second weekend at number 2, this week it takes £87,809, 58% up from last weekend, the movie was released in 1990 and has taken £9.7 Million since release.
Little Mix: LM5 - The Tour Film
Highest new movie of the week is the concert film of pop group Little Mix's last concert LM5 which takes £83,518 over the weekend.
Superintelligence
Another new release, Melissa McCarthy stars in her husband Ben Falcone new movie which makes its debut at 4 with £72,574 .
LoveActually
Finally in the top 5 is writer Richard Curtis's directorial debut starring Hugh Grant from 2003.
The movie takes £42,508 over the weekend, 66% up from last week, for a total gross of £36.87 since it was released.
It's time for another catalogue film to hit the top of the UK box office as England comes out of lockdown and cinemas slowly start to open again, 231 cinemas made up this weeks box office.
Elf was first released in the UK at the beginning of December 2003, it never hit the top then spending 4 weeks in the runner up spot, exactly 17 years later the movie get to the top.
Highest new movie of the week is a new telling of Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol while outside the top 5 Katherine Jenkins Christmas Spectacular makes a debut at number 10, director Rob Savage's move Host is new at 14 and the re-edit of The Godfather Part III is new at 15.
UK box office Quickview.
- Number 1 - Elf (1st Week)
- Highest Debut - A Christmas Carol (@4)
- Longest run - Two By Two: Overboard! (7 weeks)* **
- Highest total gross - Two By Two: Overboard! (£1,019,031)* *Not including catalogue re-releases
**There are a total of 4 films which have spent 7 weeks on the box office
Here is a breakdown of the top 5 film on the UK box office 4th - 6th December 2020.
Elf
After 17 years director Jon Favreau's festival favourite hits the top of the UK box office, albeit under strange circumstances, with a weekend gross of £48,244, a 97% increase from last weekend.
The big increase from last weekend is due to the increased number of cinemas that have re-opened, but the movie has taken a total of £17 Million since its release in 2003.
Home Alone
The Chris Columbus movie falls from the top this week with £36,878, a 93% increase from last weekend!
This pushes the movies total gross to £9.64 Million since its 1990 release.
Wolfwalkers
Highest film of the weeks that is not a re-release is this animation from directors Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart which takes £26,171, a 94% increase over last weekend.
The movie has now taken £74,874 since its release 4 weeks ago.
A Christmas Carol
Highest new movie of the week lands at number 4, a re-telling of the classic Christmas story, this time directed by Jacqui Morris and starring Simon Russell Beale and Martin Freeman.
The film takes £22,366 on its debut weekend of release.
Two By Two: Overboard!
Finally on the top 5 is the former number 1 movies which takes £21,952 on its 7th weekend of release giving the animated take a total gross of £1 Million, it finally made it over the Million line!
