Big Hero 6 narrowly beats Kingsman at the UK box office

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Big Hero 6 has topped the UK box office on its first weekend on release.

Disney's latest animation earned £4,293,286 to take the top spot ahead of Colin Firth's spy thriller Kingsman: The Secret Service. The victory was a narrow one, with Kingsman trailing behind with a £4,241,292 opening.

American Sniper, last week's number one movie, slips down to number three, with The Theory of Everything and Taken 3 rounding out the top five.

Elsewhere, the chart sees new entries from Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice and the Met Opera's screening of Les Contes D'Hoffmann.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Big Hero 6 - £4,293,286
2. (-) Kingsman: The Secret Service - £4,241,292
3. (1) American Sniper - £1,586,745
4. (3) The Theory of Everything - £1,032,912
5. (2) Taken 3 - £801,562
6. (4) Into the Woods - £734,370
7. (6) Paddington - £442,869
8. (5) Ex Machina - £410,327
9. (-) Inherent Vice - £363,133
10. (-) Les Contes D'Hoffmann - Met Opera 2015 - £238,597

Source: Rentrak