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UK Box Office Analysis Weekend 1st - 3rd February 2019: How To Train Your Dragon 3 is the top film with a 5 million pound debut

UK Box Office Analysis Weekend 1st - 3rd February 2019:  How To Train Your Dragon 3 is the top film with a 5 million pound debut
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Its been a quiet start to the year so far with nothing setting the box office alight and although this week is no different we do have 3 new releases in the top 5 headed by How To Train Your Dragon 3 at the top.

Green Book

How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World

The third film in the How To Train Your Dragon series takes over at the top of the UK box office with a £5.3 million opening weekend.

Compared to the previous 2 film this is on par with the first part but below the second part which opened to £7 million plus.

Green Book

The Oscar nominated film starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali makes its debut at number 2 this week with a £1.6 million opening.

Glass

The James McAvoy and Bruce Willis starring film falls from the top spot this week to number 3 where is grosses just shy of a million pound on its 3rd weekend.

The film has now taken £8.6 million in the UK but at the moment looks unlikely to beat either the other 2 film in the series, Split and Unbreakable, in UK grosses.

Escape Room

Entering the chart at number 4 this week is this run of the mill horror film which directed by Adam Robitel which takes £820,000 on its debut.

Mary Queen Of Scots

After a couple of weeks at number 2 the historical drama falls to number 5 this week with £782,000 which boosts its UK total gross to £6.6 million.

This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films

  1. How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World - £5,323,448
  2. Green Book - £1,672,562
  3. Glass - £944,735
  4. Escape Room - £820,218
  5. Mary, Queen of Scots - £782,198
  6. Vice - £581,985
  7. Mary Poppins Returns - £530,842
  8. Can You Ever Forgive Me? - £518,230
  9. Stan and Ollie - £413,289
  10. The Favourite - £410,001
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