List of 2016 box office number-one films in the United Kingdom explained

This is a list of films which have placed number one at the weekend box office in the United Kingdom during 2016.

Films

WeekWeekend End DateFilmTotal weekend gross
(Pound sterling)		Weekend openings in the Top 10Reference(s)
1 £10,304,562 Joy (#3), The Danish Girl (#4) align='center'[1]
2 £6,001,948 The Hateful Eight (#2) align='center'[2]
3 The Revenant £5,235,851 Creed (#3), Room (#7) align='center'[3]
4 £3,856,489 Ride Along 2 (#2), The Big Short (#4), The 5th Wave (#9) align='center'[4]
5 £2,278,262 Dirty Grandpa (#2), Spotlight (#5), Capture the Flag (#7) align='center'[5]
6 Goosebumps £2,686,105 Dad's Army (#2), Point Break (#9) align='center'[6]
7 Deadpool £13,729,803 (#2), Zoolander 2 (#3), Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (#10) align='center'[7]
8 £5,694,280 How to Be Single (#3), Triple 9 (#6) align='center'[8]
9 £2,987,877 Grimsby (#2), The Forest (#6) align='center'[9]
10 London Has Fallen £3,229,675 Hail, Caesar! (#2), The Other Side of the Door (#6) align='center'[10]
11 Kung Fu Panda 3 £4,771,131 (#2), The Witch (#7), Anomalisa (#10) align='center'[11]
12 £1,740,695 10 Cloverfield Lane (#2), The Boy (#5), High-Rise (#6), Kapoor & Sons (#10) align='center'[12]
13 £14,621,007 Zootropolis (#2), My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (#4) align='center'[13]
14 £4,661,959 Eddie the Eagle (#2) align='center'[14]
15 £3,032,962 Midnight Special (#6), Hardcore Henry (#10) align='center'[15]
16 The Jungle Book £9,901,921 Eye in the Sky (#3), Fan (#7), Theri (#8), Criminal (#9) align='center'[16]
17 £8,895,442 Bastille Day (#3), Friend Request (#5), Miles Ahead (#10) align='center'[17]
18 £14,466,681 Demolition (#6), Son of Saul (#8) align='center'[18]
19 £4,806,575 Bad Neighbours 2 (#3), Florence Foster Jenkins (#4), Robinson Crusoe (#5), 24 (#10) align='center'[19]
20 £2,789,985 The Angry Birds Movie (#2), Our Kind of Traitor (#6), Everybody Wants Some!! (#7), Green Room (#10) align='center'[20]
21 £7,354,293 A Hologram for the King (#6), (#10) align='center'[21]
22 £2,543,481 Alice Through the Looking Glass (#2), Money Monster (#4), Love and Friendship (#8), (#10) align='center'[22]
23 Warcraft: The Beginning £3,623,725 (#2), Me Before You (#3), The Nice Guys (#6), Housefull 3 (#10) align='center'[23]
24 Me Before You £1,453,859 The Boss (#7), Mother's Day (#9) align='center'[24]
25 The Conjuring 2 £4,637,862 Gods of Egypt (#3) align='center'[25]
26 The Secret Life of Pets £9,793,723 (#2) align='center'[26]
27 £4,739,295 (#2), Central Intelligence (#3) align='center'[27]
28 £3,624,751 The Legend of Tarzan (#2), Now You See Me 2 (#3), Sultan (#6), The Neon Demon (#9) align='center'[28]
29 Ghostbusters £4,388,944 (#2), Dirty Dancing (#6)align='center'[29]
30 The BFG £5,288,529 Star Trek Beyond (#2), Andre Rieu's 2016 Maastricht Concert (#3) align='center'[30]
31 Finding Dory £8,122,075 Jason Bourne (#2), Dishoom (#10) align='center'[31]
32 Suicide Squad £11,252,225 align='center'[32]
33 £4,241,598 Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (#5), Pete's Dragon (#6), Nerve (#7), The Shallows (#8) align='center'[33]
34 Finding Dory £2,868,459 (#3), Lights Out (#6), Swallows and Amazons (#8), Nine Lives (#9) align='center'[34]
35 £1,932,155 Bad Moms (#2), War Dogs (#4), (#5), (#10) align='center'[35]
36 Sausage Party £2,690,156 Brotherhood (#2), Café Society (#9) align='center'[36]
37 £1,219,972 Ben-Hur (#2), Don't Breathe (#3), Kubo and the Two Strings (#5), Hell Or High Water (#7) align='center'[37]
38 Bridget Jones's Baby £8,013,318 Blair Witch (#2), (#3), The Infiltrator (#9) align='center'[38]
39 £6,453,799 The Magnificent Seven (#2), The Girl with All the Gifts (#5) align='center'[39]
40 £4,807,165 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (#2), Deepwater Horizon, (#3) Supersonic (#5), (#10) align='center'[40]
41 The Girl on the Train £6,957,945 War on Everyone (#7), Tristan Und Isolde – Met Opera (#8) align='center'[41]
42 £3,412,472 Inferno (#2), Storks (#3), Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary Performance (#4), American Honey (#10) align='center'[42]
43 Trolls £5,440,878 (#2), (#6), I, Daniel Blake (#9), Keeping Up with the Joneses (#10) align='center'[43]
44 Doctor Strange £9,288,898 Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (#8) align='center'[44]
45 £3,445,203 The Accountant (#3), A Street Cat Named Bob (#4), Nocturnal Animals (#5), The Light Between Oceans (#6)align='center'[45]
46 Arrival £2,924,059 align='center'[46]
47 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them £15,333,146 André Rieu:Christmas with André (#4) align='center'[47]
48 £8,892,489 A United Kingdom (#6), Dear Zindagi (#9), Paterson (#10) align='center'[48]
49 £4,494,727 Moana (#2), Sully: Miracle on the Hudson (#3), Pitbull: Tough Women (#5), The Edge of Seventeen (#9), Bleed for This (#10) align='center'[49]
50 £2,734,960 Office Christmas Party (#4), Snowden (#8), Befikre (#10) align='center'[50]
51 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story £17,305,011 The Nutcracker - Bolshoi Ballet (#7)align='center'[51]
52 £5,634,115 Passengers (#2), Ballerina (#8), Dangal (#9) align='center'[52]
53 £5,959,299 Why Him? (#2), Monster Trucks (#4), Collateral Beauty (#7) align='center'[53]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gant . Charles . 6 January 2016 . All-conquering Star Wars can't deflect 5% year-on-year dip at UK box office . . 6 January 2016.
  2. Web site: Gant . Charles . 12 January 2016 . The Hateful Eight shoots up UK box office despite standoff over screenings . . 12 January 2016.
  3. Web site: Gant . Charles . 20 January 2016 . The Revenant attacks Star Wars in rise to top of UK box office . . 20 January 2016.
  4. Web site: Gant . Charles . 26 January 2016 . The Revenant mauls UK box office but Sandra Bullock's brand may be in crisis . . 26 January 2016.
  5. Web site: Gant . Charles . 2 February 2016 . Dirty Grandpa cleans up at UK box office as The Revenant still clings to top spot . . 2 February 2016.
  6. Web site: Gant . Charles . 9 February 2016 . Doomed to return: Dad's Army victor at UK box office despite scathing reviews . . 9 February 2016.
  7. Web site: Gant . Charles . 16 February 2016 . Zoolander 2 has box office malfunction as Zombies perish and Deadpool thrives . . 16 February 2016.
  8. Web site: Gant . Charles . 23 February 2016 . Deadpool defeats Chipmunks at UK box office as Mermaid's haul impresses . . 23 February 2016.
  9. Web site: Gant . Charles . 1 March 2016 . Grimsby sickens but fails to gross as Deadpool continues heroics at the UK box office . . 1 March 2016.
  10. Web site: Gant . Charles . 8 March 2016 . London Has Fallen stands up at UK box office as Hail, Caesar! posts golden hello . . 8 March 2016.
  11. Web site: Gant . Charles . 15 March 2016 . Kung Fu Panda 3 chops Allegiant down to size at UK box office . . 15 March 2016.
  12. Web site: Gant . Charles . 22 March 2016 . Kung Fu Panda 3 scraps with 10 Cloverfield Lane to stay top at UK box office . . 22 March 2016.
  13. Web site: Gant . Charles . 30 March 2016 . Batman v Superman sets superpowered record at UK box office . . 30 March 2016.
  14. Web site: Gant . Charles . 5 April 2016 . Eddie the Eagle soars at UK box office while Batman v Superman crashes . . 5 April 2016.
  15. Web site: Gant . Charles . 12 April 2016 . Zootropolis attracts all creatures great and small at UK box office . . 12 April 2016.
  16. Web site: Gant . Charles . 19 April 2016 . The Jungle Book ahead of the pack in UK while Mirren eyes a hit . . 19 April 2016.
  17. Web site: Gant . Charles . 26 April 2016 . The Jungle Book remains top of the tree at UK box office . . 26 April 2016.
  18. Web site: Gant . Charles . 3 May 2016 . Captain America unseats Jungle Book at UK box office . . 3 May 2016.
  19. Web site: Gant . Charles . 10 May 2016 . Seth Rogen and Meryl Streep comedies burned by the sun at UK box office . . 10 May 2016.
  20. Web site: Gant . Charles . 17 May 2016 . Captain America puts Angry Birds to flight at UK box office . . 17 May 2016.
  21. Web site: Gant . Charles . 24 May 2016 . X-Men gang up on an exhausted Captain America at UK box office . . 24 May 2016.
  22. Web site: Gant . Charles . 1 June 2016 . Alice sequel slips up as X-Men maintain a heroic hold on the UK box office . . 1 June 2016.
  23. Web site: Gant . Charles . 7 June 2016 . Triumphant Warcraft puts Ninja Turtles in the shadows at UK box office . . 7 June 2016.
  24. Web site: Gant . Charles . 14 June 2016 . Me Before You fights off Julia Roberts and Melissa McCarthy at UK box office . . 14 June 2016.
  25. Web site: Gant . Charles . 21 June 2016 . The Conjuring 2 puts the frighteners on gods and turtles at the UK box office . . 21 June 2016.
  26. Web site: Gant . Charles . 28 June 2016 . The Secret Life of Pets repels alien invasion at UK box office . . 28 June 2016.
  27. Web site: Gant . Charles . 5 July 2016 . Ab Fab ad campaign makes Edina and Patsy toast of UK box office . . 5 July 2016.
  28. Web site: Gant . Charles . 12 July 2016 . The Secret Life of Pets beats Tarzan to the top of the tree at UK box office . . 12 July 2016.
  29. Web site: Gant . Charles . 19 July 2016 . Ghostbusters blasts Ice Age at the UK box office . . 19 July 2016.
  30. Web site: Gant . Charles . 26 July 2016 . The BFG towers over UK box office while Star Trek Beyond fails to prosper . . 26 July 2016.
  31. Web site: Gant . Charles . 2 August 2016 . Finding Dory surfaces atop UK box office as Jason Bourne spies second . . 2 August 2016.
  32. Web site: Gant . Charles . 9 August 2016 . Crime pays: DC's Suicide Squad tops UK box office with £11.25m . . 24 August 2016.
  33. Web site: Gant . Charles . 16 August 2016 . Suicide Squad still supreme at the UK box office . . 16 August 2016.
  34. Web site: Gant . Charles . 23 August 2016 . Cringe, little benefit: David Brent flounders in Finding Dory's wake . . 23 August 2016.
  35. Web site: United Kingdom Box Office, August 26–28, 2016 . . 30 August 2016.
  36. Web site: Gant . Charles . 5 September 2016 . Brotherhood the daddy at UK box office as Finding Dory crowned king of the summer . . 5 September 2016.
  37. Web site: Gant . Charles . 13 September 2016 . Don't Breathe spooks Ben-Hur's horses at the UK box office . . 19 September 2016.
  38. Web site: Gant . Charles . 20 September 2016 . Bridget Jones's Baby delivers at UK box office, while Blair Witch sneaks into second . . 20 September 2016.
  39. Web site: Gant . Charles . 27 September 2016 . Bridget Jones's Baby still the daddy in UK as Finding Dory hits motherlode . . 27 September 2016.
  40. Web site: Gant . Charles . 5 October 2016 . How did Bridget Jones's Baby deliver so many pounds at the UK box office? . . 5 October 2016.
  41. Web site: Gant . Charles . 11 October 2016 . The Girl on the Train beats Bridget Jones's Baby – and Gone Girl – in UK . . 11 October 2016.
  42. Web site: Gant . Charles . 18 October 2016 . The Girl on the Train still UK's top ticket as Bridget Jones's Baby makes history . . 18 October 2016.
  43. Web site: Gant . Charles . 25 October 2016 . I, Daniel Blake scores impressive result at UK box office as Trolls takes top spot . . 25 October 2016.
  44. Web site: Gant . Charles . 1 November 2016 . Doctor Strange sweeps into a new cosmic realm at UK box office . . 1 November 2016.
  45. Web site: Gant . Charles . 8 November 2016 . The Accountant adds up to a big deal at the UK box office . . 8 November 2016.
  46. Web site: Gant . Charles . 15 November 2016 . Arrival lands in top spot at UK box office, but no space for American Pastoral . . 15 November 2016.
  47. Web site: Gant . Charles . 22 November 2016 . Fantastic Beasts sprinkles magic over the UK box office . . 22 November 2016.
  48. Web site: Gant . Charles . 29 November 2016 . Fantastic Beasts still No 1 in UK as A United Kingdom and Allied start strong . . 29 November 2016.
  49. Web site: Gant . Charles . 6 December 2016 . Moana and Sully bobbing in the wake of Fantastic Beasts at UK box office . . 6 December 2016.
  50. Web site: Gant . Charles . 13 December 2016 . Fantastic Beasts holds UK box office spellbound, as Office Christmas Party gets a round in . . 13 December 2016.
  51. Web site: Gant . Charles . 20 December 2016 . Rogue One opens well in the UK - but not quite as well as Fantastic Beasts . . 20 December 2016.
  52. Web site: Weekend box office figures . 14 January 2017.
  53. Web site: Gant . Charles . 4 January 2017 . Rogue One storms past Fantastic Beasts into 2016 top spot at UK box office . . 18 January 2017.

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