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The top two films from last weekend held on to their places and both experienced strong holds on another impressive weekend for the box office. The snowy conditions last week obviously hampered Les Misérables as it bounced back easing a miniscule 9% to £4m and a huge cume of £24.6m. On Saturday it overtook High School Musical 3 (£22.8m) and now the only musical ahead of it on the all-time list is Mamma Mia with £68.5m. Django Unchained fell just 14% to £2.4m and now has a cume of £7.2m. Despite opening lower than Inglourious Basterds, its final total of £10.9m looks very achievable.
In third spot was another awards hopeful and the highest new entry, Lincoln, with £1.7m. That’s a very solid start and as the BAFTAs and Oscars get closer, it should continue to perform strongly. Fourth place was taken by Life of Pi 3D, which crossed the £25m mark with a further £1.1m and now stands on a spectacular £25.9m, a total that would have put it 8 on the list of 2012’s biggest films. Another new entry rounded out the top five, with Zero Dark Thirty opening with £1.1m. That’s significantly more than Kathryn Bigelow’s last film, The Hurt Locker, which opened with £309k in 2009.
A couple of other notable new entries were ensemble comedy Movie 43 in seventh spot with £788k and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s comeback as The Last Stand which could only open in tenth spot with £539k (including £83k from previews).
Overall the box office was once again up on the same weekend last year, this time 32%, and that’s now 15 weekends in succession.
In the US, Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters' $19m debut is an improvement on Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter's $16.3m opening last June with an audience 55% male and 57% were 25 years of age or older. Second place was taken by Mama, which eased a chunky 55% to $12.9m and has a healthy cume of $48.6m. Third spot was taken by Oscar hopeful, Silver Linings Playbook which experienced just a 10% drop to $10m and a cume of $69.5m. Zero Dark Thirty was in fourth spot with $9.8m and has now grossed $69.9m. The top five was rounded out by Jason Statham vehicle, Parker, which opened with an unspectacular $7m.
Title |
Weekly Total |
Cumulative Total |
| 1 Les Misérables | £4,016,611 | £24,618,896 |
| 2 Django Unchained | £2,419,846 | £7,185,499 |
| 3 Lincoln | £1,657,337 | £1,657,337 |
| 4 Life Of Pi 3D | £1,119,570 | £25,957,044 |
| 5 Zero Dark Thirty | £1,052,845 | £1,052,845 |
| 6 The Impossible | £1,006,477 | £10,777,332 |
| 7 Movie 43 | £787,648 | £787,648 |
| 8 Monsters, Inc 3D | £703,656 | £1,595,962 |
| 9 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 3D | £623,889 | £51,020,811 |
| 10 The Last Stand | £538,867 | £538,867 |
Source: The Guardian