In early figures for last weekend the Tom Hooper musical took £2.8 million taking it's total to around to £30 million mark.
The top new film landed (pun intended) at 3, Denzel Washington stars and is Oscar nominated for his portrayal of an airline pilot with a drinking problem. Flight takes £1.7 million over the weekend.
Flight is having a battle with Lincoln for 3rd place and might end up in fourth by the time final figures are counted.
This time last year Chronicle was the top film of the week and the highest new film debuting at number 1 with £2.2 million, the previous weeks top film, War Horse was knocked to 4th place.
Five years ago it was all change as well as man of the moment, director J.J. Abram's this time on production duties, took Clover field to the top on it's debut with £3.4 million.
Ten years ago Spielberg was a the top with Hanks and DiCaprio and Catch Me If You can with debuted with £3.7 million.
Fifteen years ago Titanic was on the second week of its mammoth run on the chart and took �4.7 million, there was unusually no new films at the box office this week.
