Wall Street
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Released: 29th April 1988
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Highest chart position: 1
Weeks on box office: 6
29th Apr 1988
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20th May 1988
It was a time when Disney was riding on the wave of success, Matt Damon could carry a movie and Joss Whedon used cinema to finish off his cancelled TV series.
Each week we present a rundown of the UK box office chart headlines on this same week from last year to 1990.
A year ago (2019)
No.1 movie:
Joker which had been at the top for 2 weeks.
Highest debut:
Abominable directed by Jill Culton and Todd Wilderman and starring Chloë Bennet and Albert Tsai which entered the box office at number 2.
Longest run:
Toy Story 4 which had been on the box office for 17 weeks.
Top total grossing:
The Lion King which had taken £75.5 Million after 13 weeks of release.
Five years ago (2015)
No.1 movie:
The Martian which had been at the top for 2 weeks.
Highest debut:
Sicario directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Emily Blunt and Benicio Del Toro which entered the box office at number 2.
No. 1 and top total grossing:
Inside Out which had taken £38.4 Million over 12 weeks of release.
Ten years ago (2010)
No. 1 and Highest debut:
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps starring Michael Douglas and Shia LaBeouf and directed by Oliver Stone
Longest run:
Back To The Future which had been on the box office for 18 weeks.
Top total grossing:
Toy Story 3 which had taken £73.3 Million after 12 weeks of release.
Fifteen years ago (2005)
No. 1 and highest debut:
Serenity starring Nathan Fillion and Gina Torres and directed by Joss Whedon
No. 1 and top total grossing:
Charlie And The Chocolate Factory which had taken £37.2 Million over 11 weeks of release.
Twenty years ago (2000)
No. 1 and highest debut:
Nutty Professor II: The Klumps starring Eddie Murphy and Janet Jackson and directed by Peter Segal
No. 1 and top total grossing:
Chicken Run which had taken £28.7 Million over 15 weeks of release.
Twenty five years ago (1995)
No. 1 and highest debut:
Pocahontas starring Irene Bedard and Mel Gibson and directed by Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg
Longest run:
Judge Dredd which had been on the box office for 12 weeks.
Top total grossing:
Batman Forever which had taken £20 Million after 12 weeks of release.
Thirty years ago (1990)
No. 1 movie: Ghost which had been at the top for 2 weeks and with a total gross of £15.6 Million it was also the top total grossing film.
Highest Debut: The Little Mermaid directed by Ron Clements and John Musker and starring Rene Auberjonois and Christopher Daniel Barnes which entered the box office at number 2.
Longest run:
Total Recall which had been on the box office for 12 weeks.
As we come to the end of 2015 it has been revealed by Excipio, a company who tracks data like this, which film got pirated the most.
The film is 2014's Interstellar, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Matthew McConaughey about space travel to another galaxy.
In the UK the film was the 13 highest grossing film of 2014 and the 10th highest grossing movie across the world in the same year.
The film was downloaded an estimated 47 million times, shockingly this is 17 million higher than last years top illegally downloaded film Wolf of Wall Street.
Here are the top 10 most illegally downloaded film of 2015
- Interstellar
- Fast and Furious 7
- Avengers Age of Ultron
- Jurassic World
- Mad Max Fury Road
- American Sniper
- Fifty Shades of Grey
- The Hobbit Battle Of The Five Armies
- Terminator Genesis
- Kingsman The Secret Service
UK Box Office Results Weekend 16th October 2015: All new top 3 with HT2 at the top
22nd October 2015
22nd October 2015
This week there are no less than 5 news film on the top 10 with animated sequel Hotel Transylvania 2 landing at the top.
HT2 tops the Uk box office with weekend gross of £6.3 million, this far outstrips the original movie in the series which entered at 2 with £1.7 million.
Hotel Transylvania went on to gross £7.8 million at the UK box office which this sequel should manage by next weekend.
Last weeks top film, The Martian, falls to number 4 this week after a all new top 3 entered the box office.
At number 2 is the true life drama Suffragettes starring Carey Mulligan and at 3 is Pan the Peter pan origins story starring Hugh Jackman.
Also new this week is: Crimson Peak at number 5 and The lobster at number 9.
Historical charts
A year ago
The 2014 re-image of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was new at number 1 knocking Gone Girl down to number 2.
Five years ago
Despicable Me made its debut at the top of the box office and with a whole new top 3 Wall Street Money Never Sleeps slips from the top to 4.
Ten years ago
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of The Were-Rabbit enters at the top of the chart knocking Pride and Prejudice down to number 3.
Fifteen years ago
Dinosaur from Disney made its debut a the top knocking Billy Elliott down to number 3.
Twenty years ago
Pocahontas kept its hold on the top of the chart and in an unusual move there was no new film that entered the chart.
Twenty five years ago
Ghost held on at the top for yet another week leaving The Little Mermaid to enter highest at number 2.
Disney hold on to the top spot this week with their latest animated big screen movie Big Hero 6, and in a repeat of last week it only just out grosses Kingsman The Secret Service which holds at 2.
Another £2.5 million over the weekend sees the Hero 6's UK gross rise to £7.5 million from it's 11 days of release, including preview screenings.
Interestingly it was the weekend which gave Hero 6 the top spot, looking at the chart for the full week, Kingsman takes the top spot by nearly a million pound.
Highest new film of the week is from the Aardman animated studio, Shaun The Sheep Movie enters at number 4.
Shaun takes ££2 million for the weekend, not the numbers that Wallace and Gromit are used to but it's up there with other Aardman films.
Also new on the UK box office are: Jupiter Ascending from the Wachowski siblings at 4 and Selma at number 6.
Historical box office
A year ago
Mr. Peabody and Sherman entered the box office at the top on it's debut weekend of release knocking The Wolf of Wall Street from the top to number 3.
Five years ago
Avatar retained the top spot for yet another week, The Princess and The Frog from the mouse house was the highest new film at 2.
Ten years ago
Meet The Fockers stayed at the top for another week leaving Ocean's Twelve to land on the box office at number 2 on it's debut.
Fifteen and Twenty years ago
Oscar winner American Beauty was still at the top of the box office fifteen years ago while twenty years ago the controversial Natural Born Killers was the top film in the country.
All change at the top this week as Disney take over with their animated blockbuster Big Hero 6 making it's debut.
Like it's predecessor from the Mouse House Big Hero 6 makes it's debut at the top of the box office, and like Frozen which debuted with £4.7 million Big Hero 6 takes takes £4.2.
The release is just before the Uk school half term holiday which will see a massive boost in it's takings, and although it will do well it wont do as well as the juggernaut that has been Frozen.
Falling from the top spot this week is American Sniper which is this week at 3 and a total gross just shy of £10 million.
Making it's debut at 2, and only why of the top spot by £50,000, is Kingsman The Secret Service.
Other new films this week are: Inherent Vice at 9 and Les Contes Dhoffmann Met Opera 2015 at 10.
Historical Charts
A year ago
The Wolf of Wall Street was holding onto the top spot for another week while the highest new film was That Awkward Moment which came in at 3.
Five years ago
There was still no move for Avatar as it held onto the top spot while the highest new film was Mel Gibsons try at a comeback movie in Edge of Darkness at 3.
Ten years ago
Meet The Fockers was the highest new film which debuted at the top of the box office knocking Closer down to the runner up spot.
Fifteen years ago
Double Jeopardy made it's debut at the top of the chart knocking Angelas Ashes down to the number 2 spot.
