Making its debut at the top was How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World starring Gerard Butler and Cate Blanchett and directed by Dean Deblois.
The longerst run on the box office and the top total grossing film was Bohemian Rhapsody which had taken £52.5 Million over 15 Weeks of release.
Five years ago (2015) -Also making its debut at the top was Big Hero 6 starring Scott Adsit and Ryan Potter and directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams.
The longerst run on the box office and the top total grossing film was Paddington which had taken £35.5 Million over 10 Weeks of release.
Ten years ago (2010) -The number one film was Avatar which had been at the top for 6 Weeks and with a total gross of £65.1 Million it was also the top total grossing film.
The top new film of the week was Edge of Darkness directed by Martin Campbell and starring Mel Gibson and Danny Huston which entered the box office at number 3.
The film with the longest run was St. Trinian's 2: The Legend Of Frittons Gold which had been on the box office for 7 Weeks.
Fifteen years ago (2005) -Making its debut at the top was Meet the Fockers starring Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller and directed by Jay Roach.
The longerst run on the box office and the top total grossing film was The Incredibles which had taken £31.9 Million over 11 Weeks of release.
Twenty years ago (2000) -Making its debut at the top was Double Jeopardy starring Tommy Lee Jones and Ashley Judd and directed by Bruce Beresford.
The film with the longest run was East Is East which had been on the box office for 13 Weeks.
The top total grossing film of the week was The World Is Not Enough which had taken £27.8 Million after 10 Weeks of release. 
The number one film was Interview With the Vampire which had been at the top for 2 Weeks.
The top new film of the week was Only You starring Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr which entered the box office at number 2.
The longerst run on the box office and the top total grossing film was The Lion King which had taken £23.2 Million over 17 Weeks of release.
Thirty years ago (1990) -The number one film was Black Rain which had been at the top for 2 Weeks.
The top new film of the week was Lock Up starring Sylvester Stallone and Donald Sutherland which entered the box office at number 2.
The longerst run on the box office and the top total grossing film was Shirley Valentine which had taken £11.7 Million over 15 Weeks of release.
Robert has been a film buff since he first visited the old Palace Cinema in High Wycome when he was young.
After working for Ritz Video Film Hire, later Blockbuster Express, it cemented his interest in film and gave him the drive to go to university with the intention of working in the industy.
6 years of college/university studying film and Culture and he decided to take a different path, so he taught himself to develop websites.
8 years at Amazon, 3 years at eBay, a year at PayPal and 6 years running his own digital marketing agency and here we are writing and developing saltypopcorn.co.uk.
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