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List of 2020 box office number-one films in the United Kingdom

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This is a list of films which have placed number one at the weekend box office in the United Kingdom during 2020.

Films

Week Weekend End Date Film Total weekend gross
(Pound sterling)
Weekend openings in the Top 10 Reference(s)
1 5 January 2020 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker[a] £4,396,258 The Gentlemen (#3), Jojo Rabbit (#5), André Rieu: 70 Years Young (#6) [1]
2 12 January 2020 1917 £7,446,302 [2]
3 19 January 2020 £6,190,049 Bad Boys for Life (#2), Bombshell (#7), Just Mercy (#9) [3]
4 26 January 2020 £4,518,270 The Personal History of David Copperfield (#3), PAW Patrol: Ready, Race, Rescue (#10) [4]
5 2 February 2020 £2,798,457 Queen & Slim (#7), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (#8), Porgy and Bess – MET Opera (#9), The Lighthouse (#10) [5]
6 9 February 2020 Dolittle £5,085,520 Birds of Prey (#2), Parasite (#4) [6]
7 16 February 2020 Sonic the Hedgehog £4,733,768 Emma (#6), 365 dni (#8) [7]
8 23 February 2020 £4,171,244 The Call of the Wild (#4), Like a Boss (#8), Brahms: The Boy II (#9) [8]
9 1 March 2020 The Invisible Man £2,163,798 Dark Waters (#4) [9]
10 8 March 2020 Onward £3,419,500 Military Wives (#3), Fantasy Island (#7) [10]
11 15 March 2020 £1,272,748 The Hunt (#3), Bloodshot (#4), Misbehaviour (#7), My Spy (#8) [11]
12 22 March 2020 The Invisible Man £105,000 [12] [13]
13 29 March 2020 British cinemas closed and box office reporting suspended due to the Coronavirus pandemic [14]
14 5 April 2020
15 12 April 2020
16 19 April 2020
17 26 April 2020
18 3 May 2020
19 10 May 2020
20 17 May 2020
21 24 May 2020
22 31 May 2020
23 7 June 2020
24 14 June 2020
25 21 June 2020
26 28 June 2020
27 5 July 2020 Onward £21,626 Trolls World Tour (#2), The Greatest Showman (#4), Dirty Dancing (#6), Grease (#7), The Terminator (#8), Star Wars (#9), Fight Club (#10) [15]
28 12 July 2020 The Empire Strikes Back £50,406 Black Water: Abyss (#3), The Shawshank Redemption (#8), Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (#9) [16]
29 19 July 2020 Onward £49,271 Dreambuilders (#6), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (#8), A Star Is Born (#9) [17]
30 26 July 2020 £60,074 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (#5), Stage Mother (#7), The Dark Knight Rises (#8) [18]
31 2 August 2020 Unhinged £175,263 100% Wolf (#3), The Vigil (#5), Proxima (#6), Jurassic Park (#9) [19]
32 9 August 2020 £115,188 An American Pickle (#4), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (#10) [20]

Notes

  1. ^ Opened in 2019

References

  1. ^ Gant, Charles (7 January 2020). "UK box office report, January 3-5: The Rise of Skywalker triumphs as Cats skirts disaster". The Telegraph. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  2. ^ Gant, Charles (14 January 2020). "UK box office report, January 10-12: 1917 is on a mission to beat Dunkirk". The Telegraph. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
  3. ^ Gant, Charles (21 January 2020). "UK box office report, January 17-19: 1917 will set record as UK cinema's biggest grossing First World War film". The Telegraph. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  4. ^ Gant, Charles (28 January 2020). "UK box office report, January 24-26: Armando Iannucci's colour-blind casting is paying off handsomely". The Telegraph. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  5. ^ Gant, Charles (4 February 2020). "UK box office report, January 31-February 2: The Lighthouse shines, while 1917 battles on". The Telegraph. Retrieved 6 February 2020.
  6. ^ Gant, Charles (11 February 2020). "UK box office report, February 7-9: Parasite is already a foreign-language phenomenon". The Telegraph. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  7. ^ Gant, Charles (18 February 2020). "UK box office report, February 14-16: Parasite thrives, but Sonic the Hedgehog overtakes it". The Telegraph. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  8. ^ Gant, Charles (25 February 2020). "UK box office report, February 21-23: Sonic the Hedgehog runs rings around Harrison Ford's fake dog". The Telegraph. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  9. ^ Gant, Charles (3 March 2020). "UK box office report, February 28-March 1: The Invisible Man kicks Will Ferrell off a cliff". The Telegraph. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  10. ^ Gant, Charles (10 March 2020). "UK box office report, March 6-8: Coronavirus can't keep the Military Wives (or Pixar) down". The Telegraph. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  11. ^ Gant, Charles (17 March 2020). "UK box office report, March 13-15: An utter disaster, even before the coronavirus crackdown". The Telegraph. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  12. ^ UK box office stalls as cinemas close amid pandemic
  13. ^ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 20th March 2020 - 22nd March 2020
  14. ^ Pulver, Andrew (17 March 2020). "Cinemas across the UK to shut in response to coronavirus". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  15. ^ Gant, Charles (7 July 2020). "UK box office report, July 3-5: Christopher Nolan, your country needs you". The Telegraph. Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  16. ^ Gant, Charles (15 July 2020). "UK box office report, July 10–12: Star Wars, you're our only hope". The Telegraph. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  17. ^ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 17th July 2020 - 19th July 2020
  18. ^ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 24th July 2020 - 26th July 2020
  19. ^ Gant, Charles (4 August 2020). "UK box office report, July 31–August 2: Russell Crowe drives right past a lockdown record". The Telegraph. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  20. ^ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 7th August 2020 - 9th August 2020

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