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Angelina Jolie’s Maleficent has topped the UK box office on its first weekend on release.

The Disney blockbuster, a re-telling of the studio’s classic animation Sleeping Beauty, earned more than £6 million to knock last week’s chart topper X-Men: Days of Future Past into second place.

Maleficent has pulled in $100.6m across 47 territories, making it the biggest ever live-action movie opening for Jolie.

Bryan Singer’s latest X-Men film falls to number two on its second weekend on release, while Tom Cruise’s sci-fi thriller Edge of Tomorrow experienced a soft opening in third place with £1.8 million.

The Doug Liman-directed time-loop film falls short of the £4.9 million opening haul for Cruise’s last outing Oblivion, as well as the £3.5 million earned by Jack Reacher.

Elsewhere, the chart saw new releases A Million Ways to Die in the West and Jimmy’s Hall bow at numbers four and ten respectively.

The UK box office top ten in full is as follows:
1. (-) Maleficent – £6,590,071
2. (1) X-Men: Days of Future Past – £3,518,389
3. (-) Edge of Tomorrow – £1,886,096
4. (-) A Million Ways to Die in the West – £1,240,465
5. (2) Godzilla – £982,401
6. (3) Bad Neighbours – £555,308
7. (4) Postman Pat: The Movie – £479,867
8. (5) Blended – £227,467
9. (6) Rio 2 – £214,096
10. (-) Jimmy’s Hall – £131,703

Source: Rentrak

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X-Men: Days of Future Past has delivered the biggest opening weekend in the UK this year.

Bryan Singer’s superhero sequel earned £9.1 million to easily see off competition from Godzilla and secure first place at the box office. Its debut edges out The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which premiered to £9 million earlier this year.

Days of Future Past has also posted the biggest UK debut of an X-Men movie to-date. The film’s weekend haul beats X-Men: The Last Stand‘s £7.1 million earnings from 2006 and represents an uptick on recent entries The Wolverine (£4.6 million) and X-Men: First Class (£5.4 million).

X2 is the best-performing X-Men movie in the UK with a cumulative total of £20.7 million. Days of Future Past already looks on course to surpass that figure.

Elsewhere in the the top ten there are places at numbers four and five for Postman Past: The Movie and Blended respectively.

The Lego Movie also saw a surge in ticket sales over the Bank Holiday weekend, climbing up from number 22 to ten with £185,087.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) X-Men: Days of Future Past – £9,144,971
2. (1) Godzilla – £2,731,355
3. (2) Bad Neighbours – £1,222,235
4. (-) Postman Pat: The Movie – £774,750
5. (-) Blended – £688,547
6. (6) Rio 2 – £341,785
7. (4) The Other Woman – £335,059
8. (5) The Two Faces of January – £303,037
9. (3) The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – £255,482
10. (22) The Lego Movie – £185,087

Source: Rentrak

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

The Gareth Edwards-directed monster epic earned £6.3 million to easily coast past last week’s chart-topper Bad Neighbours and secure the number one spot.

The Amazing Spider-Man 2, now on its fifth weekend on release, falls to number three ahead of romantic comedy The Other Woman and new release The Two Faces of January.

Elsewhere, this week’s chart sees sequels Rio 2 and Captain America: The Winter Solider show durability, with the latter taking its total UK earnings to within touching distance of the £20 million mark.

The Wind Rises, Hayao Miyazaki’s 11th and final feature film, climbs up from outside the top ten to make the number nine slot.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Godzilla – £6,385,483
2. (1) Bad Neighbours – £1,406,306
3. (2) The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – £449,989
4. (3) The Other Woman – £446,582
5. (-) The Two Faces of January – £328,438
6. (4) Rio 2 – £202,200
7. (6) Tarzan – £137,882
8. (5) Pompeii – £112,527
9. (11) The Wind Rises – £80,693
10. (9) Captain America: The Winter Soldier – £77,677

Source: Rentrak

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Bad Neighbours has ended The Amazing Spider-Man 2‘s run at the top of the UK box office.

The comedy, starring Seth Rogen and Zac Efron, earned £8.4 million over an extended nine-day opening weekend to secure first place.

Bad Neighbours opened on Saturday, May 3, and with box office figures only counted from Friday to Sunday, it had the benefit of a longer stretch to rack up ticket sales.

The Other Woman dropped a place to number three, while animated sequel Rio 2 climbed up a spot to number four after boosting its weekly takings to £505,186.

Paul WS Anderson’s Pompeii completes the top five.

Elsewhere, the chart sees new entries from Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Sabotage and the Met Opera’s live broadcast of La Cenerentola.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Bad Neighbours – £8,446,240
2. (1) The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – £1,286,356
3. (2) The Other Woman – £928,788
4. (5) Rio 2 – £551,655
5. (3) Pompeii – £505,186
6. (4) Tarzan – £440,643
7. (-) Sabotage – £300,521
8. (-) La Cenerentola (Met Opera 2014) – £285,597
9. (6) Captain America: The Winter Soldier – £252,908
10. (-) Frank – £202,747

Source: Rentrak

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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has topped the UK box office for the third consecutive weekend.

The superhero sequel, starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone, earned £1.9 million to secure first place ahead of romantic comedy The Other Woman (£1.4 million).

Amazing Spider-Man 2 has now earned £19.7 million from its three-week cinema run.

Pompeii and Tarzan, both new releases, debuted at numbers three and four respectively. Paul WS Anderson’s 3D disaster epic pulled in £1.1 million, while Tarzan earned £800,000.

Rio 2 rounds out the top five with £460,000, taking its UK total to £12.4 million after five weeks on release. Transcendence is this week’s biggest faller, dropping fives places to number eight.

Elsewhere, Seth Rogen and Zac Efron’s Bad Neighbours – which opened on Saturday, May 3 – earned more than £2 million over the weekend but will officially chart next week.

The comedy is expected to easily secure the number one spot with the benefit of a 9-day ‘opening’.

The UK box office top 10 in full:
1. (1) The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – £1,984,667
2. (2) The Other Woman – £1,447,983
3. (-) Pompeii – £1,165,551
4. (-) Tarzan – £808,174
5. (4) Rio 2 – £460,886
6. (5) Captain America: The Winter Soldier – £357,448
7. (6) Noah – £236,058
8. (3) Transcendence – £229,178
9. (10) Calvary – £203,752
10. (-) Plastic – £154,441

Source: Rentrak

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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has retained its place at the top of the UK box office.

The Andrew Garfield-led superhero sequel earned £3.3 million on its second weekend on release to hold off competition from The Other Woman and Transcendence and secure first place.

Romantic comedy The Other Woman, starring Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann and Kate Upton, pulled in £2.6 million to easily outpace Transcendence‘s showing of £1.18 million.

Rio 2 charted at number four, while Captain America: The Winter Soldier completed the top five. Marvel’s sequel has now earned £18 million after five weeks on release in the UK, a total that’s nearly £10 million more than its predecessor The First Avenger.

Elsewhere, the Met Opera’s live cinema broadcast of Cosi Fan Tutte pulled in £362,487 to help it chart at number seven.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (1) The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – £3,366,372
2. (-) The Other Woman – £2,662,870
3. (-) Transcendence – £1,181,347
4. (2) Rio 2 – £882,505
5. (4) Captain America: The Winter Soldier – £579,076
6. (3) Noah – £512,358
7. (-) Cosi Fan Tutte – £362,487
8. (5) The Love Punch – £345,981
9. (6) Divergent – £299,068
10. (7) Calvary – £296,216

Source: Rentrak

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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 has topped the UK cinema charts in its first weekend on release.

The superhero sequel, starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone, earned £9 million to see off competition from Rio 2 and Noah to lead the Bank Holiday box office.

Amazing Spider-Man 2‘s debut falls short of its predecessor, which earned £11 million when it opened in 2012.

Rio 2 climbed up a place from last week to number two, while Darren Aronofsky’s Noah fell down a spot to number three.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, last week’s chart-topper, slips down to number four just ahead of new release The Love Punch at five.

Elsewhere, Tom Hardy’s one-man thriller Locke and Bollywood film 2 States are new entries at numbers nine and ten respectively.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – £9,011,114
2. (3) Rio 2 – £1,132,641
3. (2) Noah – £920,803
4. (1) Captain America: The Winter Soldier – £831,901
5. (-) The Love Punch – £613,424
6. (4) Divergent – £500,206
7. (7) Calvary – £394,095
8. (6) Muppets Most Wanted – £366,312
9. (-) Locke – £251,063
10. (-) 2 States – £208,578

Source: Rentrak

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Captain America: The Winter Soldier has returned to the top of the UK box office.

Marvel’s sequel earned £1.78 million to leapfrog Noah and Rio 2 on its third weekend on release.

The Winter Soldier has now pulled in £14.6 million from its UK cinema run, up on the £9.5 haul taken by predecessor The First Avenger in 2011.

Divergent held its place at number four, while The Quiet Ones is a new entry at number five.

Elsewhere, the chart saw new releases Calvary and The Raid 2 debut at numbers seven and eight respectively.

The highest-earning film in the top ten is The Lego Movie, which took its UK total to £32.5 million after adding £196,050 to its tally last weekend.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (2) Captain America: The Winter Soldier – £1,782,201
2. (3) Noah – £1,591,916
3. (1) Rio 2 – £1,559,793
4. (4) Divergent – £1,003,202
5. (-) The Quiet Ones – £681,305
6. (5) Muppets Most Wanted – £602,492
7. (-) Calvary – £571,489
8. (-) The Raid 2 – £454,150
9. (6) The Grand Budapest Hotel – £332,145
10. (9) The Lego Movie – £196,050

Source: Rentrak

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Rio 2 has topped the UK cinema chart on its debut weekend on release.

The Blue Sky Studios animated sequel, posting earnings of £2.8 million (up on the £1.5 million haul of its 2011 predecessor), won a highly-competitive box office battle which saw both Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Noah gross more than £2 million from UK screens.

Divergent, the Shailene Woodley action film, debuted at number four with £1.7 million. The film falls short of fellow YA movies Twilight and The Hunger Games, which debuted to £2.5 million and £4.9 million respectively.

Muppets Most Wanted, down three places from last week’s runner-up spot, completes the top five.

Elsewhere, the chart saw new entries for opera broadcast La Boheme and Richard Ayoade’s The Double.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Rio 2 – £2,882,680
2. (1) Captain America: The Winter Soldier – £2,764,030
3. (-) Noah – £2,511,397
4. (-) Divergent – £1,767,295
5. (2) Muppets Most Wanted – £897,395
6. (3) The Grand Budapest Hotel – £611,999
7. (-) La Boheme – £374,522
8. (-) The Double – £281,794
9. (6) The Lego Movie – £264,574
10. (4) Non-Stop – £189,815

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