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UK Box Office Weekend Report 27th - 29th January 2017: Sing is on tune at the top of the UK box office on its debut

UK Box Office Weekend Report 27th - 29th January 2017:  Sing is on tune at the top of the UK box office on its debut
Sing
Making its debut on the UK box office this week is Sing which lands at the top knocking off La La Land, and in a surprise move keeps of T2 Trainspotting.

Sing is an animated feature from the same stable as Despicable Me and features the voice talent from the likes of Matthew McConaughey and Reece Witherspoon.

Sing

The film makes its debut with a rather spectacular £10.4 million debut weekend which makes it the 66 top opening of all time.

Sing replaces La La Land which falls to number 3 this week with a £3.1 million 3rd weekend and a £20.9 million total UK gross.

Missing out on the top spot is the highly anticipated T2 Trainspotting which lands at number 2, the film is an 18 rating so the audience compared to Sing is limited, but £5.1 million is good and any other week would have easily seen the film enter at the top.

Also new this week is Hacksaw Ridge from director Mel Gibson at number 5 with £1.4 million and Rahm at number 7 with £521,000.

Hacksaw Ridge

Highest total grossing film on the UK box office this week is Rogue One: A Star Wars Story which after 7 weeks has grossed £65.2 million while the longest running film is Trolls with 13 weeks.

This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films

  1. Sing - £10,487,380
  2. T2 Trainspotting - £5,146,791
  3. La La Land - £3,105,328
  4. Split - £2,000,318
  5. Hacksaw Ridge - £1,490,158
  6. Lion - £1,101,725
  7. xXx - Return of Xander Cage - £657,786
  8. Jackie - £557,138
  9. Rahm - £521,694
  10. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story - £504,161
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