£72.2 Thousand
$857.3 Thousand
$0This week At the UK box office the little yellow Minions held off the highest new film quite comfortably to gain a second week a the top.
With a £4.15 million weekend the Minions has brought its total gross to £27.6 million, which ahead of both of the Despicable Me film from the same series.
Rolling into second place is Ted 2, Ted was a massive surprise hit back in 2012 taking nearly £12 million on it's opening weekend, Ted 2 has taken £3.8 on it's debut and will struggle to get over £10 million in total.
Other new films this week are Love and Mercy at number 9 and Song of The Sea at number 10.
Historical Charts
A Year ago - Transformers: Age of Extinction took over at the top of the UK box office on its debut knocking down Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie to number 3.
Five years ago - The Twilight Saga: Eclipse entered the chart at the top knocking Shrek Forever After down to number 2.
Ten years ago - War of The Worlds held its own at the top while the highest new film was The Descent which enters at number 3.
Fifteen years ago - Chicken Run continued to dominate the box office at the top while this highest new entry was at number 3 in the shape of The Patriot.
Twenty years ago - The Batman franchise was still thriving and Batman Forever entered the box office at the top, First Knight fell to number 2.
Twenty Five years ago - Back to The Future Part III was entering at the top while Dick tracy fell to number 2.
A selection of the 2015 Oscar nomination, to see the full list visit Oscars.com
Here the list of the "main" nominations:
Best Picture
American Sniper - Birdman Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) - Boyhood - The Grand Budapest Hotel - The Imitation Game - Selma - The Theory Of Everything - Whiplash -Best Director
Alejandro G. I��rritu, Birdman Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) - Richard Linklater, Boyhood - Bennett Miller, Foxcatcher - Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel - Morten Tyldum, The Imitation Game -Best Actor
Steve Carell, Foxcatcher - Bradley Cooper, American Sniper - Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game - Michael Keaton, Birdman Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) - Eddie Redmayne, The Theory Of Everything -Best Actress
Marion Cotillard, Two Days One Night - Felicity Jones, The Theory Of Everything - Julianne Moore, Still Alice - Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl - Reese Witherspoon, Wild -Supporting Actress
Patricia Arquette, Boyhood - Laura Dern, Wild - Emma Stone, Birdman Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) - Meryl Streep, Into The Woods - Keira Knightley, The Imitation Game -Supporting Actor
Robert Duvall, The Judge - Ethan Hawke, Boyhood - Edward Norton, Birdman Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) - Mark Ruffalo, Foxcatcher - JK Simmons, Whiplash -Foreign Language Film
Ida - Leviathan - Tangerines - Timbuktu - Wild Tales -Adapted Screenplay
American Sniper - The Imitation Game - Inherent Vice - The Theory of Everything - Whiplash -Original Screenplay
Boyhood - Birdman Or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) - Foxcatcher - The Grand Budapest Hotel - Nightcrawler -Animated Feature
Big Hero 6 - Boxtrolls - How To Train Your Dragon 2 - Song Of The Sea - The Tale Of Princess Kaguya -
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