UK Box Office: 24 - 26 August 2012
Click here to display full screen (opens in a new window)
UK Box Office: 24 - 26 August 2012
:
| Weekend 24 - 26 August 2012 UK box office | ||||||||||
| Rank | Title | Country of Origin | Weekend Gross | Distributor | % change on last week | Weeks on release | Number of cinemas | Site average | Total Gross to date | |
| 1 | Brave | USA | £2,371,691 | Disney | -55 | 4 | 556 | £4,266 | £13,259,610 | |
| 2 | Ted | USA | £1,692,883 | Universal | -19 | 4 | 503 | £3,366 | £25,620,707 | |
| 3 | The Bourne Legacy | USA | £1,596,289 | Universal | -65 | 2 | 507 | £3,148 | £7,828,435 | |
| 4 | The Dark Knight Rises | UK/USA | £1,378,717 | Warner Bros | -9 | 6 | 398 | £3,464 | £52,534,102 | |
| 5 | Keith Lemon: The Film | UK | £1,196,310 | Lions Gate | - | 1 | 420 | £2,848 | £1,196,310 | |
| 6 | The Expendables 2 | USA | £1,028,904 | Lions Gate | -48 | 2 | 462 | £2,227 | £4,316,173 | |
| 7 | The Three Stooges | USA | £509,324 | 20th Century Fox | - | 1 | 350 | £1,455 | £509,324 | |
| 8 | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days | USA/Can | £424,206 | 20th Century Fox | -8 | 4 | 465 | £912 | £6,217,366 | |
| 9 | Ice Age: Continental Drift | USA | £331,851 | 20th Century Fox | -5 | 9 | 375 | £885 | £28,381,351 | |
| 10 | The Imposter | UK/USA | £252,170 | Picturehouse | - | 1 | 49 | £5,146 | £252,170 | |
| 11 | Shadow Dancer | UK/Ire/Fra | £201,936 | Paramount | - | 1 | 166 | £1,216 | £201,936 | |
| 12 | Ek Tha Tiger | Ind/Ire/USA | £190,961 | Yash Raj | -65 | 2 | 65 | £2,938 | £1,165,214 | |
| 13 | The Wedding Video | UK | £167,077 | Entertainment | -50 | 2 | 298 | £561 | £896,361 | |
| 14 | Step Up 4: Miami Heat | USA | £157,574 | Universal | -54 | 3 | 276 | £571 | £2,406,785 | |
| 15 | Dr. Seuss' The Lorax | USA | £152,079 | Universal | -23 | 5 | 323 | £471 | £7,017,256 | |
| Total | £11,651,972 | 5213 | £2,235 | £151,803,100 | ||||||
| Other UK films | ||||||||||
| 21 | Searching for Sugar Man | UK | £12,137 | StudioCanal | -28 | 5 | 12 | £1,011 | £308,636 | |
| 28 | Grabbers | UK/Ire | £5,928 | Element | -66 | 3 | 18 | £329 | £97,297 | |
| 33 | 360 | UK/Aut/Fra/Bra | £4,818 | Artificial Eye | -52 | 3 | 6 | £803 | £84,215 | |
| 39 | Prometheus | UK/USA | £1,886 | 20th Century Fox | -48 | 13 | 2 | £943 | £24,707,160 | |
| 40 | The Angels' Share | UK/Fra/Bel | £1,873 | eOne Films | -69 | 13 | 4 | £468 | £1,899,097 | |
| 45 | The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel | UK/USA/Ind | £1,375 | 20th Century Fox | -28 | 27 | 2 | £688 | £20,314,531 | |
| 48 | Cocktail | UK/Ind | £1,177 | Eros | -38 | 7 | 1 | £1,177 | £682,586 | |
| 55 | Salmon Fishing in the Yemen | UK/USA | £834 | Lions Gate | 79 | 19 | 2 | £417 | £6,023,214 | |
| 61 | The Lodger (Re: 2012) | UK | £642 | BFI | -89 | 3 | 5 | £128 | £50,435 | |
| 67 | Fast Girls | UK | £428 | StudioCanal | 18 | 11 | 2 | £214 | £742,915 | |
| 75 | Woman in a Dressing Gown (Re) | UK | £212 | ICO | 77 | 5 | 2 | £106 | £7,390 | |
| Other openers | ||||||||||
| 17 | Shirin Farhad Ki Toh Nikal Padi | Ind | £39,365 | Eros | - | 1 | 18 | £2,187 | £39,365 | |
| 20 | Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie | USA | £14,003 | Momentum | - | 1 | 1 | £14,003 | £14,003 | |
| 25 | F For Fake (RE: 2012) | Fra/Iran/Ger | £6,454 | BFI | - | 1 | 7 | £922 | £6,454 | |
| 31 | Tango With Me | Nigeria | £5,023 | Evrit | - | 1 | 15 | £335 | £5,023 | |
| 36 | Le Petit Nicolas | Fra | £2,293 | Soda | - | 1 | 11 | £208 | £7,033 | |
| 38 | Circumstance | Fra/USA/Iran | £1,900 | Peccadillo | - | 1 | 1 | £1,900 | £1,900 | |
| Comments on this week's top 15 results | ||||||||||
| Against last weekend: -35% | ||||||||||
| Against last year: -30% | ||||||||||
| Rolling 52 week ranking: 25th | ||||||||||
| UK* films in top 15: 5 | ||||||||||
| UK* share of top 15 gross: 27.4% | ||||||||||
| * Includes domestic productions and co-productions | ||||||||||
| The weekend gross for The Three Stooges includes £156,271 from 311 previews; the weekend gross for The Imposter includes £28,903 from 43 previews. | ||||||||||
| The weekend gross for Shadow Dancer includes £1,354 from 2 previews. | ||||||||||
| Excluding previews the weekend gross for The Bourne Legacy has decreased by 24%; excluding previews the weekend gross for The Expendables 2 has decreased by 34%. | ||||||||||
| Excluding previews the weekend gross for Ek Tha Tiger has decreased by 52%. | ||||||||||
| Openers next week - 31 August 2012 | ||||||||||
| Berberian Sound Studio | UK/Ger | Artificial Eye | ||||||||
| A Few Best Men | Aus | Disney | ||||||||
| Rec 3 | Spa | eOne Films | ||||||||
| The Possession | USA | Lions Gate | ||||||||
| Total Recall | UK/USA/Can | Sony Pictures | ||||||||
| Cockneys vs. Zombies | UK | StudioCanal | ||||||||
| The Watch | USA | 20th Century Fox | ||||||||
| Joker | Ind | UTV Motion Pictures | ||||||||
| Mr. Marumakan | Ind | Screen Entertainment | ||||||||
| The Myth of an American Sleepover | USA | Independent | ||||||||
| Samsara | USA | Arrow Films | ||||||||
| Shut Up and Play the Hits | UK/USA | Pulse Films | ||||||||
| Yuma | Pol/Czech | Distko | ||||||||
