Sign up for the SaltyPopcorn weekly newsletter

MOVIE NEWS

Latest movie news and box office analitics

UK box office analysis 10th October 2014: Maze Runner looses its way to the top

ADVERTISMENT
The Maze Runner
This week at the UK box office there was no shifting for Gone Girl as the David Fincher film retains it's hold of the top spot for a second week.

Holding on with a weekend gross of £3.06 million Gone Girl has taken £9.8 million during it's 10 days of release.

Debuting in second place is the latest teen survival movie in the shape of The Maze Runner, based on the first of James Dashner series of books.

Maze Runner takes £2.04 million from the weekend, not a bad debut although in comparison The Hunger Games took £4.9 million on it's debut while Twilight took a comparable £2.5 million.

Also new this week: Horror movie Annabelle at 3, Event film showing for one weekend One Direction Where We Are at 4, romantic comedy The Rewrite is at 9 (are we getting sick of Hugh Grant?).

Historical Charts - One year ago - Prisoners spent an incredible third week at the top of the box office and with a ver static top 5 the highest new film was The Fifth State at 6.

Five years ago - Pixars Up was debuting at the top of the box office knocking off The Invention of Lying which fell to third place.

Ten years ago - Bride and Prejudice as the new film at the top of the charts with the previous weeks number 1 dropping down to third place.

Fifteen years ago - American Pie made it's debut at the top of the box office and Big Daddy fell from the top to the number three spot.

This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films

    See full chart
    ABOUT:
    Robert Hyde

    Robert has been a film buff since he first visited the old Palace Cinema in High Wycome when he was young.

    After working for Ritz Video Film Hire, later Blockbuster Express, it cemented his interest in film and gave him the drive to go to university with the intention of working in the industy.

    6 years of college/university studying film and Culture and he decided to take a different path, so he taught himself to develop websites.

    8 years at Amazon, 3 years at eBay, a year at PayPal and 6 years running his own digital marketing agency and here we are writing and developing saltypopcorn.co.uk.

    Recent news stories

    ADVERTISMENT