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Les Misérables has topped the UK box office for the third consecutive weekend.

Tom Hooper’s movie musical, which stars Anne Hathaway, Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe, earned more than £4 million to hold off competition from Django Unchained.

New releases Lincoln and Zero Dark Thirty both entered at numbers three and five respectively. With Life of Pi at number four, this means that the entire top five is made up of ‘Best Picture’ Oscar nominees.

Elsewhere, the critically-panned Movie 43 debuts at number seven with £787,648.

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s The Last Stand opened at number 10 with a disappointing £539,000 from 356 cinemas. In contrast, the action icon’s last above-the-title film Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines debuted with £6 million in 2003.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Les Misérables – £4,016,611
2. (2) Django Unchained – £2,419,846
3. (-) Lincoln – £1,657,337
4. (3) Life of Pi – £1,119,570
5. (-) Zero Dark Thirty – £1,052,845
6. (4) The Impossible – £1,006,477
7. (-) Movie 43 – £787,648
8. (7) Monsters, Inc 3D – £703,656
9. (6) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – £623,889
10. (-) The Last Stand – £538,867

Source: Rentrak

Les Misérables has held off competition from Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained to top the UK box office.

Tom Hooper’s musical, starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway, pulled in £4.4 million on its second weekend in theatres to easily hold off competition from Tarantino’s slavery western.

Life of Pi slips down to number three, while The Impossible rises a place to four. Warner Bros’s all-star Gangster Squad rounds out the top five.

The 3D re-release of Monsters, Inc is the only other new release to trouble the top ten.

This weekend sees the release of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s The Last Stand, the controversial Zero Dark Thirty and Oscar frontrunner Lincoln. All three are likely to challenge for places in the top five.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (1) Les Misérables – £4,406,828
2. (-) Django Unchained – £2,801,312
3. (2) Life of Pi – £1,201,163
4. (5) The Impossible – £1,094,321
5. (3) Gangster Squad – £791,799
6. (4) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – £765,437
7. (-) Monsters, Inc 3D – £681.247
8. (7) Quartet – £355,518
9. (8) Jack Reacher – £212,540
10. (7) Parental Guidance – £206,060

Source: Rentrak

Les Misérables has topped the UK box office on its debut weekend on release.

Tom Hooper’s musical, starring Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway and Russell Crowe, pulls in more than £8 million to end The Hobbit‘s four-week run at the chart summit.

The film’s opening haul makes it the highest-grossing musical opening ever in the UK, topping the £6.59 million earned by Mamma Mia! in 2008.

Les Mis has picked up eight Oscar nominations and nine BAFTA nods, and won three Golden Globes at last weekend’s ceremony.

Life of Pi climbs up the chart to second place ahead of new release Gangster Squad, while The Hobbit slips to number four. The Impossible rounds out the top five.

Elsewhere, horror remake Texas Chainsaw 3D debuts at number six with £1.2 million.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Les Misérables – £8,127,991
2. (3) Life of Pi – £2,339,593
3. (-) Gangster Squad – £2,090,614
4. (1) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – £1,861,157
5. (2) The Impossible – £1,859,505
6. (-) Texas Chainsaw 3D – £1,247,735
7. (4) Quartet – £891,829
8. (5) Jack Reacher – £690,043
9. (6) Pitch Perfect – £453,205
10. (7) Parental Guidance – £401,627

Source: Rentrak

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has topped the UK box office for the fourth consecutive weekend.

Peter Jackson’s return to Middle-earth held off strong competition from drama The Impossible to secure the top spot with £4,075,781 in ticket sales.

Life of Pi falls down a place to number three with £3,345,579, taking its UK box office haul past £17 million.

Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet is a new entry at number four, while Tom Cruise thriller Jack Reacher rounds out the top five.

Elsewhere, Skyfall spends its eleventh week in the top ten and has now earned a staggering £101,572,493 from its UK cinemas run.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (1) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – £4,075,781
2. (-) The Impossible – £4,034,470
3. (2) Life of Pi – £3,353,579
4. (-) Quartet – £2,294,917
5. (3) Jack Reacher – £1,682,561
6. (4) Pitch Perfect – £917,135
7. (5) Parental Guidance – £884,319
8. (6) Rise of the Guardians – £725,281
9. (7) Skyfall – £541,401
10. (8) Tinker Bell and the Secret of the Wings – £516,952

Source: Rentrak

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has topped the UK box office chart for its third consecutive weekend.

The first chapter of Peter Jackson’s new Middle-earth trilogy continued to fend off competition from Ang Lee’s Life of Pi and the Tom Cruise-starring Jack Reacher.

Jack Reacher debuted at number three with a weekend total of £3,575,066.

The top ten’s other new entry was Billy Crystal-starring comedy Parental Guidance, which debuted at number five with £1,293,400.

Skyfall fell to seventh place, having this week become the first James Bond movie to earn over $1 billion at the worldwide box office.

Musical comedy Pitch Perfect climbed one place to number four, while DreamWorks’ Rise of the Guardians fell from number three to number six.

The biggest fall was claimed by festive sequel Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger, which went from fourth place to ninth.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (1) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – £6,850,728
2. (2) Life of Pi – £4,180,308
3. (-) Jack Reacher – £3,575,066
4. (5) Pitch Perfect – £1,295,355
5. (-) Parental Guidance – £1,293,400
6. (3) Rise of the Guardians – £1,022,539
7. (6) Skyfall – £890,022
8. (7) Tinker Bell and the Secret of the Wings – £623,067
9. (4) Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger – £386,248
10. (9) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 – £250,281

Source: Rentrak

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has topped the box office for the second consecutive weekend.

Peter Jackson’s return to Middle-earth will spend Christmas as the UK’s number one movie after holding off competition from Ang Lee’s Life of Pi.

Pitch Perfect, the musical comedy starring Anna Kendrick and Rebel Wilson, debuts at number five with £952,107.

Skyfall falls down two places to number six, passing the £99 million mark on its ninth week on release. The latest James Bond outing is expected to be the first film to pass £100 million in the UK in the next few weeks.

Elsewhere, Bollywood release Dabangg 2 pulls in £341,619 to land at number eight.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (1) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – £5,979,241
2. (-) Life of Pi – £3,610,604
3. (2) Rise of the Guardians – £1,221,504
4. (3) Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger – £1,188,380
5. (-) Pitch Perfect – £952,107
6. (4) Skyfall – £554,958
7. (5) Tinker Bell and the Secret of the Wings – £469,630
8. (-) Dabangg 2 – £341,619
9. (6) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 – £167,952
10. (7) Seven Psychopaths – £167,952

Source: Rentrak

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has topped the UK box office on its debut weekend on release.

The Peter Jackson-helmed fantasy epic, starring Martin Freeman and Ian McKellen, takes in £11.6 million to secure first place in the chart. The Hobbit had debuted to the fifth-biggest opening of 2012, falling behind Skyfall, Breaking Dawn – Part 2, The Dark Knight Rises and The Avengers.

The Hobbit‘s total places it just above the opening earnings for Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, which took £11.06 million in 2001. The Two Towers grossed £13.06 million in 2002, while Return of the King made £15.02 million the following year.

Elsewhere, Rise of the Guardians drops to number two, Nativity 2 rises two spots to three, Skyfall occupies fourth spot and Tinker Bell and the Secret of the Wings rounds out the top five.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – £11,601,538
2. (1) Rise of the Guardians – £1,250,469
3. (5) Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger – £938,309
4. (2) Skyfall – £809,406
5. (-) Tinker Bell and the Secret of the Wings – £528,820
6. (4) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 – £509,872
7. (3) Seven Psychopaths – £452,293
8. (6) Silver Linings Playbook – £231,714
9. (8) Argo – £108,384
10. (7) Great Expectations – £100,137

Source: Rentrak

Rise of the Guardians has topped the UK box office on its second weekend on release.

DreamWorks Animation’s festive movie, featuring the voices of Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin and Isla Fisher, takes in £1.6 million from its 495 locations to knock Skyfall into second place.

The likes of So Undercover, The Man with the Iron Fists, The Oranges and Celeste and Jesse Forever all opened last week, but failed to make a dent in the top ten. The most successful was Miley Cyrus’s teen comedy, which landed at number 14 with just £99,340 from 283 UK locations.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (3) Rise of the Guardians – £1,602,689
2. (1) Skyfall – £1,428,708
3. (-) Seven Psychopaths – £1,121,679
4. (2) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 – £980.190
5. (4) Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger! – £966,400
6. (5) Silver Linings Playbook – £446,324
7. (6) Great Expectations – £339,375
8. (8) Argo – £216,892
9. (9) End of Watch – £143,674
10. (10) Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted – £138,753

Source: Rentrak

Skyfall has retaken the UK box office number one spot.

The Daniel Craig-starring film took £2.3 million last week, ousting The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2‘s two-week dominance.

The 23rd James Bond‘s success over the past week has also pushed it ahead of Avatar to become the highest-grossing film in UK box office history with takings of just under £94 million.

The fifth and final Twilight movie slipped into second place, taking £2.2 million.

DreamWorks Animation’s Rise of the Guardians was the highest debut of the week, taking the third position with just under £2 million.

Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger! fell from third to fourth place, with Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper’s Silver Linings Playbook rounding off the top five films with £749,055.

The other new releases to arrive on the chart were the new Great Expectations adaptation, in at number six with £749,055, and Talaash at seven with £749,055.

Gambit dropped rapidly from 5th to 13th place, taking only £127,946.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (2) Skyfall – £2,275,469
2. (1) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 – £2,180,909
3. (-) Rise of the Guardians – £1,968,984
4. (3) Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger! – £1,204,066
5. (4) Silver Linings Playbook – £749,055
6. (-) Great Expectations – £544,636
7. (-) Talaash – £389,522
8. (8) Argo – £338,545
9. (7) End of Watch – £306,005
10. (6) Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted – £263,163

Source: Rentrak

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 has topped the UK box office for the second consecutive weekend.

The final instalment in Stephenie Meyer’s vampire series takes in £5.3 million to beat Skyfall‘s £3.8 million haul and secure first place. The latest James Bond movie has now earned £89 million, putting it £3 million behind Avatar in the all-time UK box office rankings.

Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger! leads the pack of new releases, earning £1.6 million to debut at number three. Close behind is Silver Linings Playbook with £1.2 million at number four.

Gambit, starring Colin Firth and Cameron Diaz, completes the top five with £689,042.

Elsewhere, Jake Gyllenhaal’s cop thriller End of Watch debuts at number seven with £618,546 and Bollywood release Jab Tak Hai Jaan falls six places to number ten.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (1) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 – £5,344,598
2. (2) Skyfall – £3,809,893
3. (-) Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger! – £1,614,675
4. (-) Silver Linings Playbook – £1,260,979
5. (-) Gambit – £689,042
6. (3) Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted – £637,130
7. (-) End of Watch – £618.546
8. (5) Argo – £495,689
9. (6) The Master – £201,844
10. (4) Jab Tak Hai Jaan – £198,671

Source: Rentrak