List of 1990 box office number-one films in the United Kingdom

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This is a list of films which have placed number one at the weekly box office in the United Kingdom during 1990.

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Number one films

#Week endingFilmGrossNotesRef
15 January 1990 Back to the Future Part II £870,957 [1]
212 January 1990 When Harry Met Sally £940,111When Harry Met Sally reached number one in its sixth week of release [2]
319 January 1990 Parenthood £1,155,153 [3]
426 January 1990£1,026,465 [4]
52 February 1990 Black Rain £1,044,253 [5]
69 February 1990£801,322 [6]
716 February 1990 Honey, I Shrunk the Kids £1,750,661Honey, I Shrunk the Kids had the biggest opening week for a Disney film [7]
823 February 1990£3,049,785 [8]
92 March 1990£1,655,565 [9]
109 March 1990 Born on the Fourth of July £1,153,894 [10]
1116 March 1990£862,042 [11]
1223 March 1990£526,655 [12]
1330 March 1990 The War of the Roses £1,424,019The War of the Roses reached number one in its third week of release [13]
146 April 1990£1,091,348 [14]
1511 April 1990 Look Who's Talking £1,886,779Six days only [15]
1619 April 1990£1,968,369 [16]
1726 April 1990£1,281,831 [17]
183 May 1990 The Krays £1,036,117 [18]
1910 May 1990£691,771 [19]
2017 May 1990 Pretty Woman £1,351,836 [20]
2124 May 1990£1,259,370 [21]
2231 May 1990£920,097 [22]
237 June 1990£838,476 [23]
2414 June 1990£822,042 [24]
2521 June 1990£671,228 [25]
2628 June 1990£783,657 [26]
275 July 1990£682,635 [27]
2812 July 1990£673,517 [28]
2919 July 1990 Back to the Future Part III £2,227,580 [29]
3026 July 1990£1,544,843 [30]
312 August 1990 Gremlins 2: The New Batch £2,436,707 [31]
329 August 1990£1,521,568 [32]
3316 August 1990 Total Recall £1,931,415Total Recall reached number one in its third week of release [33]
3423 August 1990£1,608,429 [34] [33]
3530 August 1990 Die Hard 2 £1,738,784Die Hard 2 reached number one in its second week of release [35]
366 September 1990£1,294,204 [36]
3713 September 1990 Memphis Belle £1,174,250 [37]
3820 September 1990£1,080,722 [38]
3927 September 1990 Another 48 Hrs. £982,527 [39]
404 October 1990 Presumed Innocent £1,168,011 [40]
4111 October 1990 Ghost £2,677,450 [41]
4218 October 1990£2,388,613 [42]
4325 October 1990£2,507,197 [43]
441 November 1990£2,224,302 [44]
458 November 1990£2,197,639 [45]
4615 November 1990£1,963,776 [46]
4722 November 1990£1,672,825 [47]
4829 November 1990£1,301,821 [48]
496 December 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles £2,013,665Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reached number one in its second week of release [49]
5013 December 1990£1,131,231 [50]
5120 December 1990 Home Alone £978,535Home Alone reached number one in its second week of release [51]
5227 December 1990£944,656 [52]

Highest-grossing films

Highest-grossing films in the U.K. between 1 December 1989 and 20 December 1990

Rank [53] [54] TitleDistributorGross (£)
1. Ghost Paramount Pictures/UIP 19,161,000
2. Pretty Woman Touchstone Pictures/Warner Bros. 12,068,000
3. Look Who's Talking Columbia Tri-Star 10,381,000
4. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids Touchstone/Warner Bros.9,395,000
5. Total Recall Guild 8,580,000
6. Ghostbusters II Columbia Tri-Star8,491,000
7. Back to the Future Part III Universal Pictures/UIP8,007,000
8. Back to the Future Part II Universal/UIP7,675,000 [nb 1]
9. Gremlins 2: The New Batch Warner Bros.7,419,000
10. When Harry Met Sally Palace Pictures 7,000,000

Notes

  1. ↑ The chart per The Guinness Book of Box Office Hits from Screen International lists Gremlins 2: The New Batch above Back to the Future Part II with the latter having a gross for the period reported by Screen International of £7.2 million [55]

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References

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  4. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 31 January 1990. p. 38.
  5. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 7 February 1990. p. 42.
  6. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 14 February 1990. p. 44.
  7. ↑ Groves, Don (21 February 1990). "'Magnolias' not quite blooming; 'Business' booming". Variety . p. 20.
  8. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 28 February 1990. p. 32.
  9. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 7 March 1990. p. 35.
  10. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 14 March 1990. p. 28.
  11. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 21 March 1990. p. 32.
  12. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 28 March 1990. p. 38.
  13. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 4 April 1990. p. 32.
  14. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 11 April 1990. p. 36.
  15. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 18 April 1990. p. 30.
  16. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 25 April 1990. p. 38.
  17. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 2 May 1990. p. 24.
  18. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 9 May 1990. p. 40.
  19. ↑ Pitman, Jack (16 May 1990). "Good weather bad for biz; Scandi, Paris fall sharply". Variety . p. 34.
  20. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 23 May 1990. p. 38.
  21. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 30 May 1990. p. 38.
  22. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 6 June 1990. p. 32.
  23. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 13 June 1990. p. 38.
  24. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 20 June 1990. p. 36.
  25. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 27 June 1990. p. 32.
  26. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 4 July 1990. p. 31.
  27. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 11 July 1990. p. 35.
  28. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 18 July 1990. p. 23.
  29. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 25 July 1990. p. 27.
  30. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 1 August 1990. p. 49.
  31. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 8 August 1990. p. 40.
  32. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 15 August 1990. p. 43.
  33. 1 2 "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 22 August 1990. p. 48. Cume gross=£2,501,904
  34. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 3 September 1990. p. 48. Week's gross £991,250; Cume gross £5,101,583
  35. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 3 September 1990. p. 48.
  36. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 10 September 1990. p. 32.
  37. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 17 September 1990. p. 56.
  38. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 24 September 1990. p. 40.
  39. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 1 October 1990. p. 59.
  40. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 8 October 1990. p. 54.
  41. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 15 October 1990. p. 72.
  42. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 22 October 1990. p. 43.
  43. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 29 October 1990. p. 33.
  44. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 5 November 1990. p. 48.
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  46. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 19 November 1990. p. 52.
  47. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 26 November 1990. p. 54.
  48. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 3 December 1990. p. 53.
  49. ↑ Pitman, Jack (10 December 1990). "'Turtles' storm Britain". Variety . p. 47.
  50. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 17 December 1990. p. 40.
  51. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 24 December 1990. p. 28.
  52. ↑ "U.K. Top 10 Films". Variety . 31 December 1990. p. 31.
  53. ↑ Swern, Phil (1995). The Guinness Book of Box Office Hits. Guinness Publishing. p. 371. ISBN   0-85112-670-7.
  54. ↑ "Top-grossing films in the U.K. 1990 Dec. 1, 1989 to Dec. 20, 1990". Variety . 21 January 1991. p. 58.
  55. ↑ "The Stats" (PDF). British Film Institute . p. 6. Retrieved 8 September 2022.

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