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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has topped the UK box office with takings over £4 million.

The Michael Bay-produced adaptation starring Megan Fox brought in a weekend gross of £4.78m.

Gone Girl drops to second place after two weeks at the top, with £2.36m. Annabelle stays at three with £1.46m, while The Maze Runner drops two to four with £1.45m.

The latest Nicholas Sparks film The Best of Me opens in fifth place with takings of over £636,000.

Robert Downey Jr’s The Judge enters at nine with £420,720, followed by Steve Coogan film Northern Soul at ten with £278,829.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – £4,785,448
2. (1) Gone Girl – £2,361,051
3. (3) Annabelle – £1,465,919
4. (2) The Maze Runner – £1,458,300
5. (-) The Best of Me – £636,842
6. (7) The Boxtrolls – £464,345
7. (5) Dracula Untold – £438,345
8. (6) The Equalizer – £429,406
9. (-) The Judge – £420,720
10. (-) Northern Soul – £278,829

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Gone Girl has topped the UK box office for the second consecutive weekend.

The David Fincher-directed thriller, starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike, earned £3 million to secure first place ahead of YA adaptation The Maze Runner.

Gone Girl has now earned more than £9 million from UK cinemas alone, adding to the $130 million the movie has earned from cinemas worldwide.

Annabelle and One Direction concert film Where We Are are both new entries in the UK chart at numbers three and four respectively.

Dracula Untold rounds out the top five.

Elsewhere, Hugh Grant’s new romantic comedy The Rewrite is the only other new release to enter the chart. The film earned £324,889 to come in at number nine.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (1) Gone Girl – £3,064,545
2. (-) The Maze Runner – £2,041,229
3. (-) Annabelle – £1,939,963
4. (-) One Direction: Where We Are – £1,012,527
5. (2) Dracula Untold – £847,958
6. (3) The Equalizer – £620,025
7. (4) The Boxtrolls – £576,772
8. (5) What We Did On Our Holiday – £342,594
9. (-) The Rewrite – £324,889
10. (7) Dolphin Tale 2 – £292,472

Source: Rentrak

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Gone Girl has debuted in at number one in the UK box office.

The mystery thriller took £4.1 million in its first weekend, beating Dracula Untold to the top spot.

Denzel Washington’s The Equalizer claims the third spot, while The Boxtrolls falls one place to four.

Rosamund Pike and David Tennant’s What We Did On Our Holiday rounds off the top five.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Gone Girl – £4,109,628
2. (-) Dracula Untold – £1,713,283
3. (2) The Equalizer – £1,207,129
4. (3) The Boxtrolls – £983,015
5. (4) What We Did On Our Holiday – £728,228
6. (-) Bang Bang – £602,193
7. (-) Dolphin Tale 2 – £536,766
8. (5) A Walk Among The Tombstones – £310,261
9. (8) Guardians Of The Galaxy – £277,419
10. (6) Pride – £248,654

Source: Rentrak

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Billy Elliot: The Musical has topped the UK box office.

The live cinema broadcast of the stage show earned £1.9 million to narrowly edge past Denzel Washington’s The Equalizer and secure first place in UK theatres.

This marks the first time a live cinema event has made it to the number one spot in the UK.

Last week’s number one movie The Boxtrolls slips to number three ahead of new release What We Did On Our Holiday. A Walk Among the Tombstones rounds out the top five.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Billy Elliot The Musical Live – £1,904,098
2. (-) The Equalizer – £1,890146
3. (1) The Boxtrolls – £1,130,062
4. (-) What We Did On Our Holiday – £811,087
5. (2) A Walk Among the Tombstones – £603,062
6. (3) Pride – £400,247
7. (4) Lucy – £377,138
8. (7) Guardians of the Galaxy – £340,417
9. (5) The Riot Club – £301,607
10. (6) Sex Tape – £265,384

Source: Rentrak

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The Boxtrolls has topped the UK box office for the second consecutive weekend.

Laika’s latest animation pulls in £1.3 million to top the chart ahead of Liam Neeson’s latest thriller A Walk Among the Tombstones.

Pride holds its position at number three, while last week’s runner-up Lucy falls to number four. Scarlett Johansson’s blockbuster has now earned more than £13 million from its impressive UK cinema run.

The Riot Club, a new release starring Sam Claflin, Max Irons and Douglas Booth, rounds out the top five.

Elsewhere, the only other new entry into the top ten is 20,000 Days on Earth, a quasi-documentary about musician Nick Cave.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (1) The Boxtrolls – £1,333,137
2. (-) A Walk Among the Tombstones – £1,317,948
3. (3) Pride – £578,794
4. (2) Lucy – £551,482
5. (-) The Riot Club – £496,647
6. (4) Sex Tape – £423,484
7. (7) Guardians of the Galaxy – £417,315
8. (-) 20,000 Days on Earth – £356,467
9. (5) A Most Wanted Man – £327,967
10. (6) Before I Go to Sleep – £306,223

Source: Rentrak

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The Boxtrolls has claimed the top spot in the UK box office chart.

The eccentric animation, starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Richard Ayoade, knocks Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel’s Sex Tape off the top after one week, earning £2m in its opening weekend.

Scarlett Johansson’s Lucy remains at two with takings of £812,000, while Matthew Warchus’ Pride is new in at three with over £718,000.

Sex Tape slips down to four with £673,000, while Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s A Most Wanted Man enters at five with £610,000.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) The Boxtrolls – £2,000,597
2. (2) Lucy – £812,073
3. (-) Pride – £718,778
4. (1) Sex Tape – £673,478
5. (-) A Most Wanted Man – £610,312
6. (3) Before I Go To Sleep – £537,991
7. (5) Guardians Of The Galaxy – £614,564
8. (6) Let’s Be Cops – £477,576
9. (4) The Hundred-Foot Journey – £437,650
10. (7) The Inbetweeners 2 – £332,564

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Sex Tape has claimed the top spot in the UK box office chart.

Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel’s comedy caper knocked Scarlett Johansson’s Lucy off the top after two weeks, earning over £1.4 million in its opening weekend.

Lucy dropped to two with takings of £1.2m, while Colin Firth’s Before I Go To Sleep entered at three with over £790,000.

Helen Mirren’s Hundred-Foot Journey is new at four with over £694,000.

Meanwhile, Dan Stevens thriller The Guest landed in eighth place with takings of over £313,000.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Sex Tape – £1,431,058
2. (1) Lucy – £1,197,432
3. (-) Before I Go To Sleep – £790,271
4. (-) The Hundred-Foot Journey – £694,875
5. (5) Guardians of the Galaxy – £678,943
6. (2) Let’s Be Cops – £663,761
7. (3) The Inbetweeners 2 – £633,341
8. (-) The Guest – £313,003
9. (6) If I Stay – £237,755
10. (10) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – £168,137

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Scarlett Johansson’s Lucy has retained its spot at the top of the UK box office.

The Luc Besson-directed thriller beat off competition from new releases including buddy comedy Let’s Be Cops and young adult drama If I Stay, earning close to £2 million during its second weekend.

Let’s Be Cops debuted in second place with a weekend gross of £1,650,912, just behind Lucy‘s £1,972,039.

If I Stay earned £505,704 in sixth place, while the other new release to break the top ten was horror As Above, So Below, which earned just under £400k in eighth place.

Jon Hamm-starring baseball drama Million Dollar Arm debuted well below the top ten, with an opening weekend gross of £150,000.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (1) Lucy – £1,972,039
2. (-) Let’s Be Cops – £1,650,912
3. (2) The Inbetweeners 2 – £1,298,163
4. (-) Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For – £1,077,370
5. (3) Guardians of the Galaxy – £1,027,274
6. (-) If I Stay – £505,704
7. (-) How To Train Your Dragon 2 – £427,724
8. (-) As Above, So Below – £398,787
9. (4) Into The Storm – £374,533
10. (7) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – £361,132

Source: Rentrak

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Scarlett Johansson’s Lucy has ended The Inbetweeners 2‘s run at the top of the UK box office.

The Luc Besson-directed action movie earned more than £3 million over the Bank Holiday weekend to secure first place ahead of the comedy sequel and Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy.

Lucy was one of five new releases to debut in the top ten this week, the others being Into the Storm, Deliver Us from Evil, What If and Doctor Who episode ‘Deep Breath’.

The latter, which marked Peter Capaldi’s first full outing as The Doctor, earned an impressive £522,908 from its cinema screenings. However, the total is still some way off the £1.7 million opening haul for last year’s 50th anniversary special ‘The Day of the Doctor’.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Lucy – £3,076,997
2. (1) The Inbetweeners 2 – £2,366,161
3. (2) Guardians of the Galaxy – £1,259,998
4. (-) Into the Storm – £1,147,657
5. (-) Deliver Us from Evil – £629,554
6. (-) What If – £592,501
7. (4) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – £588,994
8. (-) Doctor Who ‘Deep Breath’ – £522,908
9. (6) Secret Cinema’s Back to the Future – £520,187
10. (3) The Expendables 3 – £511,168

Source: Rentrak

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The Inbetweeners 2 has topped the UK box office for the second consecutive weekend.

The comedy sequel earned £4.3 million to secure top spot ahead of Guardians of the Galaxy and new release The Expendables 3.

The Inbetweeners sequel has now earned more than £22 million from UK cinemas after just two weeks on release.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes slips down to number four, while How to Train Your Dragon 2 holds its spot at five.

Secret Cinema’s Back to the Future added £531,767 to its box office haul and has now collected more than £2 million after screenings in East London.

Elsewhere, Simon Pegg’s Hector and the Search for Happiness debuts at number nine with £240,222.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (1) The Inbetweeners 2 – £4,309,832
2. (2) Guardians of the Galaxy – £2,114,664
3. (-) The Expendables 3 – £1,689,927
4. (3) Dawn of the Planet of the Apes – £1,093,872
5. (5) How to Train Your Dragon 2 – £647,613
6. (6) Secret Cinema’s Back to the Future – £531,767
7. (4) Planes 2: Fire and Rescue – £507,044
8. (7) The Nut Job – £303,849
9. (-) Hector and the Search for Happiness – £240,222
10. (8) Hercules – £202,469

Source: Rentrak

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