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UK Box Office Weekend 3rd February 2017: Sing stays at the top for a second weekend, Rings new at 7

UK Box Office Weekend 3rd February 2017:  Sing stays at the top for a second weekend, Rings new at 7
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A fairly static top end of the box office charts leaves Sing at the top for a second consecutive weekend while the top new film os Rings right down at 7.

A second weekend gross of £3.8 million is enough to keep the animated feature at the top ahead of T2 Trainspotting, it brings the films total UK gross to £15.2 million.

T2 stays put at number 2 with £2.9 million but its worth noting that across the whole week it was the top film with £5.4 million compared to Sing's £4.8 million.

Top new film of the week is Rings, a reboot of 2003s The Ring. Rings weekend gross is £812,267 which is way lower than The Rings opening of £2.2 million.

The lower end of the box office has a number of new released, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter comes in at 8 with under half a million and Gold starring Matthew McConaughey is at 9.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is still the top total grossing film on the box office this weekend, currently at 13 the film has grossed £65.6 million.

Historical charts

A Year Ago - Goosebumps landed on the box office at the top knocking The Revenant to number 3 after 3 weeks at the top.

Five Years Ago - Sleeper hit Chronicle entered the box office at the top it knocked War Horse down to 4 after 3 weeks at the top.

Ten Years Ago - Dreamgirls was the new film at the top of the box office, it knocked Blood Diamond down to number 2.

Fifteen Years Ago - Vanilla Sky spent its second weekend at number 1 on the chart while top new film was Shallow Hal at number 3.

Twenty Years Ago - The Frighteners spent its second weekend at the top and in a quiet weekend there were no new releases.

Twenty Five Years Ago - JFK remained at the top wile the top new film was Van Damme in Double Impact which entered at number 2.

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