US release: 12th November 2010
China release: 9th November 2010
Belgium release: 10th November 2010
£4.6 Million $81.6 Million
$167.8 MillionThe new movie in the long running Halloween series, Halloween Kills, has been given an age certificate of 18 in the UK by the BBFC for strong bloody violence.
The movie stars Jamie Lee Curtis reprising her role of Laurie Strode, it also stars Judy Greer.
The movie is directed by David Gordon Green who directed 2018's Halloween and will finish off this trilogy of movies with Halloween Ends in 2022.
Movie Synopsis
An injured Laurie Strode leads a vigilante mob to hunt down unstoppable killer Michael Myers and end his reign of terror once and for all.
BBFC certificate breakdown.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 retains its position at the top of the UK box office this week despite some strong competition entering the chart.
The last of The Hunger Games films adds £4.5 million on its second weekend of release which brings its total to £19.3 million after 10 days of release.
The film is almost mirroring the take of the second and third film in the series and will most likely end up grossing somewhere is the region of £30 million which is the same as part 1.
Highest new film of the week is The Good Dinosaur at number 2, the new film from Pixar takes a debut gross of £2.9 million, not quite but certainly one of the lowest gross from a Pixar film.
Also new this week are: Spielberg and Hanks double header Bridge of Spies is new at 4 while the new Johnny Depp film Black Mass is new at 5. New at 7 is Carol and Tamasha is new at number 8.
Highest total grossing film on the Uk box office this week is Spectre which after 5 weeks has grossed £88.3 million.
Historical charts
A year ago - Paddington was new at the top of the box office which knocked The HUnger Games Mockingjay Part 1 down to number 2.
Five years ago - Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows Part 1 stayed at the top for another week while Unstoppable was the highest new film at number 2.
Ten years ago - Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire was still holsing onto the top spot while Jodie Foster was the star of Flightplan which debuted at 2.
Fifteen years ago - Charlies Angels spent its debut week at the top of the box office, it knocked off What Lies Beneath from the top spot.
Twenty years ago - The Bond film Goldeneye made its debut a the top of the box office knocking Pocahontas down to number 2.
Twenty five years ago - Home Alone stayed at the top while Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the original version) entered at number 2.
Like a British institution the series of Harry Potter films are not letting up their grip on the UK box office, and the sixth film in the series was unstoppable in 2009, and despite a 6 month delay is the highest grossing film of the year with box office takings of £50,713,404.
With Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince crowned champ the runner up for the year is Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs with £34,872,218 which just about outdid the other big CG animated film of the year, Up, which came 3rd with a total gross of £34,284,193.
The multi award winning Slumdog Millionaire, which in the early part of the year was the top film, held up well and came 4th with £31,664,077, while the robots in disguise, Transformers, finished off the top 5 with £26,539,878.
The UK box office suffered a bit in the UK with the top 10 films taking a total of £287,929,402, comparing this to 2008's £340,360,259 it's far lower, in fact even 2007 had a better box office, 2006 was the last time it was this low.
Take a look at the full top 10 film for 2009.