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UK Box Office Weekend Report Weekend 15th - 17th February 2019: The Lego Movie 2 holds off Instant Family to remain at the top

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The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
It was a closely fought battle for the box office crown this weekend but by the slimmest of margins The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part remains at the top.

The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part

The gap between first and second place this week was less than £4,000 but the brick movie still manages to hold on to the top spot for a second weekend with a gross of £2.47 million.

This brings the movies total UK gross to £7.4 million on its second weekend of release.

Instant Family

Instant Family

The feel good comedy starring Mark Wahlberg enters the UK box office at number 2 this week despite giving The Logo 2 Movie a good run for its money.

It took a debut weekend gross of £2.46 million.

How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

The threequel animated dragon movie is at number 3 this week with £1.6 million which gives its UK gross a boost to £11.5 million after 3 weeks.

Alita: Battle Angel

The Manga battle movie brought to us by James Cameron falls to number 4 this week with £1.4 million which brings its total UK gross to £5.1 million after 10 days of release.

Green Book

Finishing off the top five this week is the Oscar nominated drama from director Peter Farrelly takes £740.086 to boost its total gross to £5.1 million.

Happy Death Day 2U

Also new this week at 6 is this sequel horror movie to Happy Death Day which takes £735,000 on its debut.

The Kid Who Would Be King

Falling well short of expectation is this new fantasy adventure movie from director Joe Cornish, who also directed the acclaimed movie Attack The Block, which enters the UK box office down at number 7 with a debut gross of £666,000.

Bohemian Rhapsody

Still pulling in the punters 17 weeks after its release the Queen bio-pic has now grossed an amazing £53.3 million.

This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films

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