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UK Box Office Weekend Report 27th - 29th November 2020: 30 year old movie Home Alone re-enters the UK box office at the top

UK Box Office Weekend Report 27th - 29th November 2020:  30 year old movie Home Alone re-enters the UK box office at the top
Home Alone
With only 30 cinemas open in the whole of the UK anything can happen, and this week the 30 year old favourite Christmas movie Home Alone is the anything that can happen.

The movie makes its debut on re-entry at the top of the UK box office on a weekend where nothing else new happened and there were no new, new entries!

With cinemas set to open in some English areas by next weekend, and some new releases hitting next weeks chart could look a lot different.

Here is the UK box office Quickview.

  • Number 1 - Home Alone (1st Week on re-entry)
  • Highest debut - No new movie entered the box office
  • Longest run - Tenet (14 Weeks)*
  • Highest total gross - Tenet (£17,420,052)*
  • *Not including catalogue re-releases

The UK box office top 5 breakdown 27th - 29th November 2020.

Home Alone

Directed by Chris Columbus and starring a young Macaulay Culkin this holiday favourite was a massive hit in December of 1990 where it was a number 1 movie for 3 weeks.

With only and handful of cinemas open in Scotland and Whales the movie took £2,705 over the weekend.

The film has taken a total of £9.6 Million since its initial release and has spent 28 weeks on the box office.

Honest Thief

The Liam Neeson movie refuses to go away and this week jumps back up to number 2 with £1,963, a 3% increase from last weekend.

6 weeks in and the movie has taken a total of £662,012 at the box office.

The Secret Garden~2020

Dropping to number 3 this week is the adaptation directed by Marc Munden which takes £1,657 over the weekend, a drop of 37%, this gives the movie a £677,429 total after 6 weeks of release.

Two By Two: Overboard!

Dropping from the top this week is the animated sequel which takes £1,599, dropping 55% from last weeks total, this gives the movie a total gross os £996,391 over 6 weeks.

Wolfwalkers

Wolfwalkers

Released at the end of October this animated tale from directors Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart has been bouncing around the box office for a few weeks now and had disappeared completely, but this week makes a re-entry at number 5.

This weekend it took £1,496 which boosts its total to £37,721 after 3 weeks on the box office since release.

This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films

  1. Home Alone - £2,705
  2. Honest Thief - £1,963
  3. The Secret Garden - £1,657
  4. Two By Two: Overboard! - £1,599
  5. Wolfwalkers - £1,496
  6. Elf - £1,426
  7. The Muppet Christmas Carol - £1,047
  8. Tenet - £756
  9. Back to the Future - £716
  10. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - £698
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