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With a 50%+ drop in its weekend gross Guardians this week takes £6 million in its box office takings.
This takes the Chris Pratt starring movie to £27.4 million after 10 days of release, the film is current doing almost double the business of the original Guardians movie at this point.
Highest new film of the week is a little known comedy film called A Dogs Purpose, starring Dennis Quaid and directed by Lasse Hallstrom.
It was a US hit a month or so back and after taking £1.3 million on its debut is set to become a hit on this side of the Atlantic as well.
Also new this week is Sleepless at number 6, MIndhorn at number 8 and Unlocked at number 10, a low grossing top 10 this week means all these film took less than half a million on their debut.
This weeks longest stay on the chart is Get Out which has been around for 8 week while top new film is once again Beauty and The Beast which has now taken £71 million and is the 8th top film ever in the UK.
Historical Chart's
A Year Ago - Captain America: Civil War spent its second week at the top of the Uk box office while the top new film was Bad Neighbours 2 at number 3.
Five Years Ago - Avengers Assemble stayed at the top for a second weekend, it kept off American Pie: Reunion which made its debut at number 2.
Ten Years Ago - Spider-Man 3 made its debut at the top of the box office, it knocked Next down to number 3 after only a week at the top.
Fifteen Years Ago - Making it two weeks at the top was About A Boy while the top new film was panic Room at number 2.
Twenty Years Ago - Jim Carey was the top star of the era and him new film Liar Liar was the top new film at number 1, the Special Edition of Star WarsL Return of The Jedi fell to number 2.
Twenty Five Years Ago - The Hand That Rocks The Cradle made it 3 weeks at the top while Howards End was the top new film, at number 2.
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