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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]
13–26 29 March 2020 – 28 June 2020 British cinemas closed and box office reporting suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic [14]
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]
33 16 August 2020 Inception £207,675 Pinocchio (#3), Broken Law (#6), Babyteeth (#8) [21]
34 23 August 2020 Unhinged £178,820 The Karate Kid (#9) [22]
35 30 August 2020 Tenet £5,335,654 Hope Gap (#7), Bring the Soul: The Movie (#8) [b] [23]
36 6 September 2020 £2,151,490 The New Mutants (#2), After We Collided (#6), Black Panther (#9), Les Misérables (#10) [24]
37 13 September 2020 £1,233,090 Break the Silence: The Movie (#3), The Broken Hearts Gallery (#6), Petla (#7) [25]
38 20 September 2020 £796,309 Bill & Ted Face the Music (#3), André Rieu's Magical Maastricht: Together In Music (#4), Rocks (#7), White Riot (#9) [26]
39 27 September 2020 £648,517 Schemers (#10) [27]
40 4 October 2020 £628,148 Cats & Dogs 3: Paws Unite! (#2), The Elfkins – Baking a Difference (#5), On the Rocks (#7), David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet (#8) [28]
41 11 October 2020 £296,049 Saint Maud (#2), Akira (#3), Kajillionaire (#10) [29]
42 18 October 2020 £187,275 Michael Ball & Alfie Boe: Back Together (#2), Hocus Pocus (#7), I Am Greta (#8) [30]
43 25 October 2020 Two By Two: Overboard! £329,265 Honest Thief (#2), The Secret Garden (#3), Pixie (#5), All My Life (#9), Max Winslow and the House of Secrets (#10) [31]
44 1 November 2020 £190,761 The Craft: Legacy (#5), Halloween (#8) [32]
45 8 November 2020 The Three Kings £3,521 Words on Bathroom Walls (#4), Wolfwalkers (#7), A Christmas Gift from Bob (#9) [33]
46 15 November 2020 The Secret Garden £5,147 Billie (#2), War Horse: National Theatre Live 2014 (#4) [34]
47 22 November 2020 Two By Two: Overboard! £3,422 Collective (#3), The Kid Detective (#7) [35]
48 29 November 2020 Home Alone £2,705 Wolfwalkers (#5), The Muppet Christmas Carol (#7), Back to the Future (#9), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (#10) [36]
49 6 December 2020 Elf [c] £48,244 A Christmas Carol (#4), The Grinch (#8), Die Hard (#9), Katherine Jenkins' Christmas Spectacular (#10) [37]
50 13 December 2020 £98,157 Little Mix: LM5 - The Tour Film (#3), Superintelligence (#4) [38]
51 20 December 2020 Wonder Woman 1984 £846,435 Come Away (#4) [39]
52 27 December 2020 £72,674 [40]

Notes

  1. ^ Opened in 2019
  2. ^ Originally opened at number 10 in August 2019
  3. ^ Originally peaked at number 2 when first released in 2003

Highest-grossing films

Highest-grossing films of 2020 by In-year release [41]
Rank Title Distributor Domestic gross
1. 1917 Entertainment One £43,944,156
2. Sonic the Hedgehog Paramount £19,301,130
3. Tenet Warner Bros. £17,469,917
4. Bad Boys for Life Sony £16,214,071
5. Dolittle Universal £15,946,599
6. The Gentlemen Entertainment Film £12,248,887
7. Parasite StudioCanal £12,121,140
8. Birds of Prey Warner Bros. £8,825,588
9. Jojo Rabbit Walt Disney £8,131,485
10. Onward Walt Disney £7,676,576


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
  21. ^ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 14th August 2020 - 16th August 2020
  22. ^ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 21st August 2020 - 23rd August 2020
  23. ^ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 28th August 2020 - 30th August 2020
  24. ^ BFI Weekend Box Office 04/09/2020 - 06/09/2020
  25. ^ BFI Weekend Box Office 11/09/2020 - 13/09/2020
  26. ^ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 18th September 2020 - 20th September 2020
  27. ^ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 25th September 2020 - 27th September 2020
  28. ^ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 2nd October 2020 - 4th October 2020
  29. ^ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 9th October 2020 - 11th October 2020
  30. ^ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 16th October 2020 - 18th October 2020
  31. ^ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 23rd October 2020 - 25th October 2020
  32. ^ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 30th October 2020 - 1st November 2020
  33. ^ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 6th November 2020 - 8th November 2020
  34. ^ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 13th November 2020 - 15th November 2020
  35. ^ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 20th November 2020 - 22nd November 2020
  36. ^ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 27th November 2020 - 29th November 2020
  37. ^ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 4th December 2020 - 6th December 2020
  38. ^ BFI Weekend Box Office 11/12/2020 - 13/12/2020
  39. ^ BFI Weekend Box Office 18/12/2020 - 20/12/2020
  40. ^ BFI Weekend Box Office 25/12/2020 - 27/12/2020
  41. ^ "FDA Yearbook 2021". Film Distributors Association. p. 58. Retrieved 16 August 2022.

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