UK Box Office Weekend Report 16th - 18th September 2016: Bridget Jones returns to the box office and makes her debut at the top

There was never going to be any other outcome this weekend as the countries favourite unlucky in love and life Bridget Jones returns to our screens after 12 years away.

Bridget Jones's Baby flies into the top on its debut weekend after a fairly aggressive marketing push and the best September weekend ever.

An £8.1 million debut took the film to the top of the box office which is highest than the first film in the series but a couple of million why of the follow up.

With the holiday season coming up and good word of mouth and reviews this could give the film a good run although the other 2 film came in at over £35 million and over £40 million which could be a tough ask.

Sausage Party falls to number 4 this week after 2 weeks at the top, a £600,000 weekend gross brings the total UK takings to £6.6 million.

For the first time in a while only one film on the box office takes over a million pound, although with Bridget Jones's gross the box office is on a fairly even total gross to other weeks.

Highest total grossing film of the week is Finding Dory, now on over £40 million, and longest run on the box office is The BFG, which has now around for 8 week.

This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films

1. Bridget Jones's Baby - £8,111,077
2. Blair Witch - £959,401
3. The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years - £654,726
4. Sausage Party - £615,120
5. Kubo and the Two Strings - £599,304
6. Don't Breathe - £574,782
7. Bad Moms - £500,169
8. Finding Dory - £483,538
9. The Infiltrator - £370,439
10. Ben Hur - £312,837

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