Holding on with a weekend gross of £3.06 million Gone Girl has taken £9.8 million during it's 10 days of release.
Debuting in second place is the latest teen survival movie in the shape of The Maze Runner, based on the first of James Dashner series of books.
Maze Runner takes £2.04 million from the weekend, not a bad debut although in comparison The Hunger Games took £4.9 million on it's debut while Twilight took a comparable £2.5 million.
Also new this week: Horror movie Annabelle at 3, Event film showing for one weekend One Direction Where We Are at 4, romantic comedy The Rewrite is at 9 (are we getting sick of Hugh Grant?).
Historical Charts - One year ago - Prisoners spent an incredible third week at the top of the box office and with a ver static top 5 the highest new film was The Fifth State at 6.
Five years ago - Pixars Up was debuting at the top of the box office knocking off The Invention of Lying which fell to third place.
Ten years ago - Bride and Prejudice as the new film at the top of the charts with the previous weeks number 1 dropping down to third place.
Fifteen years ago - American Pie made it's debut at the top of the box office and Big Daddy fell from the top to the number three spot.
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