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UK Box Office Weekend Report 31st January - 2nd February 2020: Little movement on the chart this week as 1917 remains at the top for a fourth weekend while the highest new film is Queen And

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1917
With no big new film released over the weekend 1917 remains at the top of the box office for a fourth consecutive weekend while the indie movie Queen And Slim is the top new film of the week at numer 7 where it heads up a quad of new releases.

1917

Te award winning film from Sam Mendes remains at the top of the Uk box office this week with a gross of £2.8 Million which is a drop of only 38%.

Considering the films length at the top of the box office this is an incredible hold, and is the film biggest week on week drop so far.

The film, which may get another boost after the Oscar Weekend on the 9th February, has taken £31.4 Million after 4 weeks of release.

Bad Boys For Life

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence has hit the top of the box office in many other countries, but in the UK it has been kept at number 4 now for 3 weeks, this weekend it took £1.8 Million.

This puts the film total gross in the UK at £11.3 Million after 3 weeks which by far makes it the top grossing film in the series.

The Personal History Of David Copperfield

Remaining at number 3 this week is the Dev Patel starring movie which takes £1. 03 Million giving the film a total gross of £3.7 Million after its second weekend of release.

Little Women

Greta Gerwig retelling of the Louisa May Alcott novel is at number 4 this weekend with £659,344 which gives the film a total UK gross of £19.9 Million after 6 weeks of release.

The Gentlemen

Guy Ritchies latest movie moves back into the top 5 this weekend with £597,494 which gives the film a £10 Million total gross after 5 weeks of release.

Queen & Slim

Queen And Slim

This Melina Matsoukas directed movie heads up the new releases this week at number 7 with £507,302.

The other new releases are A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood at number 8, the event cinema showing of Porgy And Bess: Met Opera 2020 at number 9 and The Lighthouse at number 10.

Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker

Falling to number 15 this weekend, and perhaps its last weekend on the UK box office the Star Wars sequel has had a bit of a disappointing run but is for this week the top total grossing movie with £57.8 Million.

Frozen II

Disneys other sequel movie on the box office this week is at number 14 and has the longest run on the chart with 11 weeks, it has taken £52.6 Million.

This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films

  1. 1917 - £2,798,457
  2. Bad Boys For Life - £1,844,179
  3. The Personal History of David Copperfield - £1,037,119
  4. Little Women - £659,344
  5. The Gentlemen - £597,494
  6. Jumanji: The Next Level - £597,326
  7. Queen and Slim - £507,302
  8. A Beautiful Day In the Neighborhood - £493,770
  9. Porgy and Bess: Met Opera 2020 - £409,359
  10. The Lighthouse - £384,284
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