UK Box Office 8 - 10 February 2013

Wreck-It Ralph 3D duly smashed it this weekend. A £4.5m debut is the highest opening for a Disney animation since Tangled in 2011 (£5.1m) and is a big improvement on their February offering last year, The Muppets (£2.7m). Both those films finished comfortably over £15m, so expect the same from Wreck-It Ralph 3D.

The biggest film of the year so far, Les Misérables finally vacated the top spot after four weeks, falling to second and £1.6m. It has now grossed £33.5m and a finish in the high thirties is expected. British romantic comedy I Give It A Year made a solid start with £1.4m which compares favourably with the debut for The Five Year Engagement last year (£1.1m) and with Valentine’s Day arriving this Thursday, it should have a strong week.

Django Unchained continued to perform strongly with a further £1.1m taking its cume to £12.4m, which is fractionally behind Pulp Fiction’s £12.6m final total, Django is now a dead-cert to become Tarantino’s highest grossing film of all time.

Flight rounded out the top five with £924k and a cume of £3.2m. Two new entries fell in the lower half of the top 10 with rom-zom-com Warm Bodies opening with £896k in sixth place and British drama, Hitchcock opening with £607k in eighth spot.

In the US, extreme blizzards affecting much of the country didn’t stop the Jason Bateman / Melissa McCarthy comedy, Identity Thief, opening with an impressive $36.6m this weekend. Second spot was taken by last week’s top film, Warm Bodies, which fell 44% to $11.5m and now has a cume of $36.7m. Steven Soderbergh thriller Side Effects opened in third with $10m, the audience was 63% female and 85% 25 years of age or older. Silver Linings Playbook continued its strong performance falling just 11% to $6.9m with a cume of £90m. Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters completed the top five with $5.8m and has earned $43.8m since release.