The Hangover Part II has a weekend to remember at the UK box office

UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 27th - Sunday 29th May 2011...



Todd Phillips' comedy sequel The Hangover Part II enjoyed a record-breaking opening at the global box office this past weekend and it also jumps in straight at the top of the UK chart, toppling previous champion Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides with an impressive opening of £10.4m. As a result, Pirates 4 slips one place to second with £4.7m, while another comedy sequel, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules, opens in third place with £1.4m and is the only other film in UK cinemas to break the seven-figure mark.



Moving on and Marvel Studios' latest superhero effort Thor finds itself down one place to fourth while Fast & Furious 5: Rio Heist drops out of the top two for the first time, slipping three places to round out the top five. Animated comedy Rio continues to perform well and actually climbs one spot to sixth, leapfrogging horror flick Insidious as it falls to seventh. Also on the decline are Hanna and Water for Elephants, both of which slip two apiece to eighth and tenth respectively, while Attack the Block suffers the steepest drop of the week as it plunges four places to ninth.



Number one this time last year: Sex and the City 2

Pos.	Film	Weekend Gross	Week
1	The Hangover Part II	£10,409,017	1
2	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	£4,757,411	2
3	Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules	£1,476,720	1
4	Thor	£335,103	5
5	Fast & Furious 5: Rio Heist	£322,506	6
6	Rio	£300,865	7
7	Insidious	£208,313	5
8	Hanna	£148,339	3
9	Attack the Block	£142,919	4
10	Water for Elephants	£129,143	4

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The big release this week is of course X-Men: First Class (cert. 12A), which opened here in the UK today, while alternatives arriving this coming Friday include the Disney teen flick Prom (cert. U), racing documentary Senna (cert. 12A) and the British concert film JLS 3D: Eyes Wide Open (cert. TBC).

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Pirates of the Caribbean enjoys the biggest UK box office opening of 2011

UK box office top ten and analysis for the weekend of Friday 20th - Sunday 22nd May 2011...



With a phenomenal global opening weekend of $346.5m, the latest instalment in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean series jumps straight in at number one on these shores with a mighty five-day haul of £11.6m, more than doubling the sci-fi comedy Paul's £5.5m debut to claim the biggest UK opening of the year so far. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides also broke records at the international box-office with $256.3m in receipts, overtaking the previous champ Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.



With On Stranger Tides sucking the life out of the competition, no other film managed to cross the seven-figure mark, with nearest rival Fast & Furious 5: Rio Heist pulling in just £587k to retain second. Marvel's Thor slips two places to third, a fate shared by Attack the Block in fifth and Water for Elephants down in eighth. Meanwhile Hanna falls one place to sixth as both Insidious and Rio hold firm in fourth and seventh respectively and finally, at the bottom of the chart we have a couple of new entries - Jason Statham cop thriller Blitz (in ninth with £266k) and Thomas McCarthy comedy Win Win (propping up the top ten with an opening of £155k).



Number one this time last year: StreetDance 3D

Pos.	Film	Weekend Gross	Week	Total UK Gross
1	Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides	£11,634,860	1	£11,634,860
2	Fast & Furious 5: Rio Heist	£587,617	5	£17,399,224
3	Thor	£528,701	4	£12,869,718
4	Insidious	£451,139	4	£6,386,799
5	Attack the Block	£355,232	3	£1,925,419
6	Hanna	£286,997	2	£3,182,700
7	Rio	£284,085	6	£12,064,570
8	Water for Elephants	£266,345	3	£3,202,936
9	Blitz	£266,148	1	£266,148
10	Win Win	£155,463	1	£155,463

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A pair of comedy sequels arrive this coming Friday with Todd Phillips' The Hangover Part II (cert. 15) likely to put up a strong challenge for top spot, while Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Roderick Rules (cert. U) will look to cater to the family market. Also hitting screens on Friday is a re-release of Francis Ford Coppola's classic Apocalypse Now (cert. 15), while X-Men: First Class (cert. TBC) will enjoy a number of preview screenings on Bank Holiday Monday.

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