UK Box Office 21 - 23 February 2014

Animated movies dominated the top three spots this week and for the second week running, everything was awesome for The LEGO Movie. The Warner Bros. powerhouse actually increased 1% from last weekend (once previews are removed) securing a further £5.9m, bringing its cume to a massive £21.8m. Mr.Peabody and Sherman took second spot, with a fantastic £1.6m, taking the animated time travel romp’s cume to a very respectable £10.4m. Tinker Bell and The Pirate Fairy rounded out the animated top three, bringing in £1.2m and taking its cume to £3.7m.

Twentieth Century Fox’s The Monuments Men was in fourth with £1.1m taking it to £4.1m and Studiocanal’s RoboCop completed the top five with £891k for an impressive cume of £7m.

Oscars contenders, The Wolf of Wall Street, 12 Years a Slave and Dallas Buyers Club all made it in to the top 10 this week. The Wolf of Wall Street garnered a further £725k, bringing its cume to £21m. By this time next week, it’s sure to pass Hannibal (£21.6m) as the biggest 18-cert movie of all time in the UK. 12 Years a Slave added £557k bringing the Steve McQueen masterpiece to £17.7m. Dallas Buyers Club took £454k, making its cume £3.3m.

The weekend was down 22% compared to last week, but up 27% on the same weekend last year.

Across the pond, for the third weekend in a row, The LEGO Movie easily took first place falling 37% to $31.3m and a cume of $183m. That's the second-highest third weekend ever for an animated movie behind Shrek 2 ($37.9m). 3 Days to Kill opened in second spot, with $12.2m. That's a bit lower than The Family ($14m), which was the last collaboration between Relativity Media and French producer Luc Besson.

New release, Pompeii opened with $10.3m and the audience was 52% male and 62% over the age of 30. Robocop fell 55% to $9.8m, gaining the fourth spot and after 12 days has grossed $44m. The Monuments Men rounded out the top five with $7.9m. So far, the George Clooney movie has grossed a very solid $57.9 million.