Highest new film of the week is down at 3 in the shape of Birdman or to give it the full title Birdman Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance).
Birdman was release in UK cinemas on 2nd January of this year and was a big Oscar hopeful although it only debuted at number 7 with £1.5 million which was its highest position.
A 6 week stay on the UK box office saw the film take a total gross of £'5.6 million, in the US it took $42 million.
There are 2 other new film on the video chart this week are Unbroken at 4 and Automata at 8.
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