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UK Box Office Weekend Report 23rd - 25th September 2016: Bridget Jones easily holds off The Magnificent Seven to make it 2 weeks at the top

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The Magnificent Seven
On this weeks UK box office Bridget Jones's baby stays at the top for a second weekend and makes a big impact on its total UK gross, The Magnificent Seven is the top new film.

A second weekend of release brings in £6.2 million for Bridge Jones and with a very healthy weekly gross of nearly £13 million the films total gross is now £21 million.

This just nudges the film past the previous film in the series, Bridget Jones The Edge of Reason and its well ahead of the film film.

Highest new film of the week was no challenge for Jones as it lands at 2, The Magnificent Seven takes £2.1 million on its debut weekend.

For star Denzel Washington this is pretty much an average opening for his film and likewise for director Antoine Fuqua.

Longest running film on the top 15 this week is The BFG which is 10 week old now and highest total grossing movie is Finding Dory which now sits at over £41 million.

This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films

  1. Bridget Jones's Baby - £6,453,799
  2. The Magnificent Seven - £2,132,609
  3. Kubo and the Two Strings - £506,120
  4. Finding Dory - £461,284
  5. The Girl With All the Gifts - £432,529
  6. Don't Breathe - £370,645
  7. Blair Witch - £368,685
  8. Sausage Party - £348,844
  9. Bad Moms - £328,313
  10. The BFG - £244,689
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