List of 1999 box office number-one films in the United Kingdom

This is a list of films which have placed number one at the weekend box office in the United Kingdom during 1999.

Number-one films

†	This implies the highest-grossing movie of the year. [1]

#	Weekend End Date	Film	Box Office	Notes
1	3 January 1999	Star Trek: Insurrection	£2,706,800
2	10 January 1999		£1,132,823
3	17 January 1999	Meet Joe Black	£986,511
4	24 January 1999	Practical Magic	£1,001,536
5	31 January 1999	Shakespeare in Love	£1,819,385
6	7 February 1999	A Bug's Life	£4,204,678	A Bug's Life set a record opening for an animated film, surpassing Toy Story 's £3.3 million [2]
7	14 February 1999		£4,107,566
8	21 February 1999		£4,311,358
9	28 February 1999		£2,220,635
10	7 March 1999		£1,509,076
11	14 March 1999	Patch Adams	£786,778
12	21 March 1999	Waking Ned	£911,901
13	28 March 1999	The Rugrats Movie	£1,971,685
14	4 April 1999		£1,403,862
15	11 April 1999		£1,326,486
16	18 April 1999	The Faculty	£822,777
17	25 April 1999	8MM	£733,535
18	2 May 1999	The Waterboy	£887,245
19	9 May 1999	I Still Know What You Did Last Summer	£802,498
20	16 May 1999	Forces of Nature	£493,897
21	23 May 1999	She's All That	£1,200,565
22	30 May 1999	Notting Hill	£4,323,678
23	6 June 1999		£3,004,696
24	13 June 1999	The Matrix	£3,384,948
25	20 June 1999		£2,275,576
26	27 June 1999	The Mummy	£3,771,429 [3]
27	4 July 1999		£2,535,195 [4]
28	11 July 1999		£1,278,869 [5]
29	18 July 1999	Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace †	£9,528,131 [6]	The Phantom Menace beat the record opening of Men in Black [7]
30	25 July 1999		£5,104,514
31	1 August 1999	Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me	£6,005,087
32	8 August 1999		£3,421,492
33	15 August 1999	Wild Wild West	£2,487,176
34	22 August 1999	Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace †	£1,420,885
35	29 August 1999	South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut	£1,496,581
36	5 September 1999		£813,613
37	12 September 1999	Eyes Wide Shut	£1,189,672
38	19 September 1999		£881,889
39	26 September 1999	The Haunting	£1,562,169
40	3 October 1999	Big Daddy	£1,360,121
41	10 October 1999	American Pie	£2,094,122
42	17 October 1999	Deep Blue Sea	£1,946,454
43	24 October 1999	Tarzan	£3,055,218
44	31 October 1999	The Blair Witch Project	£5,875,318
45	7 November 1999		£2,290,106
46	14 November 1999	The Sixth Sense	£4,792,296
47	21 November 1999		£3,277,054
48	28 November 1999	The World Is Not Enough	£6,273,584
49	5 December 1999		£3,842,119
50	12 December 1999		£2,329,718
51	19 December 1999		£1,389,490
52	26 December 1999		£336,718

Highest grossing films

Rank	Title	Distributor	Domestic gross £m [1]
1.	Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace	Fox	£50.9
2.	Notting Hill	UIP	£30.7
3.	A Bug's Life	Buena Vista International (BVI)	£29.3
4.	Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me	Entertainment	£25.8
5.	The World Is Not Enough	UIP	£23.4
6.	The Sixth Sense	BVI	£20.6
7.	Shakespeare in Love	UIP	£20.4
8.	The Mummy	UIP	£17.4
9.	The Matrix	Warner Bros.	£17.3
10.	Tarzan	BVI	£16.9

References

1. "Top 10 Films 1999". Screen International . 28 January 2000. p. 18.
2. Scott, Mary (12 February 1999). "A Bug's Life Animates Record". Screen International . p. 43.
3. "International box office: UK/Ireland". Screen International . 2 July 2000. p. 26. Includes previews of £337,517
4. "International box office: UK/Ireland". Screen International . 9 July 2000. p. 22.
5. "International box office: UK/Ireland". Screen International . 16 July 2000. p. 30.
6. "UK weekend box office reports: 2001" (xls). British Film Institute . Retrieved 16 January 2021.
7. Groves, Don (26 July 1999). "B.O. bakes, shakes". Variety . p. 8. Retrieved 16 January 2021.

See also

• List of British films – British films by year
• Lists of box office number-one films

Preceded by 1998

1999

Succeeded by 2000