List of 1999 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 weekend box office in the United Kingdom during 1999.

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#Weekend End DateFilmBox OfficeNotes
13 January 1999 Star Trek: Insurrection £2,706,800
210 January 1999£1,132,823
317 January 1999 Meet Joe Black £986,511
424 January 1999 Practical Magic £1,001,536
531 January 1999 Shakespeare in Love £1,819,385
67 February 1999 A Bug's Life £4,204,678A Bug's Life set a record opening for an animated film, surpassing Toy Story 's £3.3 million [1]
714 February 1999£4,107,566
821 February 1999£4,311,358
928 February 1999£2,220,635
107 March 1999£1,509,076
1114 March 1999 Patch Adams £786,778
1221 March 1999 Waking Ned £911,901
1328 March 1999 The Rugrats Movie £1,971,685
144 April 1999£1,403,862
1511 April 1999£1,326,486
1618 April 1999 The Faculty £822,777
1725 April 1999 8MM £733,535
182 May 1999 The Waterboy £887,245
199 May 1999 I Still Know What You Did Last Summer £802,498
2016 May 1999 Forces of Nature £493,897
2123 May 1999 She's All That £1,200,565
2230 May 1999 Notting Hill £4,323,678
236 June 1999£3,004,696
2413 June 1999 The Matrix £3,384,948
2520 June 1999£2,275,576
2627 June 1999 The Mummy £3,771,429 [2]
274 July 1999£2,535,195 [3]
2811 July 1999£1,278,869 [4]
2918 July 1999 Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace £9,528,131 [5] The Phantom Menace beat the record opening of Men in Black [6]
3025 July 1999£5,104,514
311 August 1999 Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me £6,005,087
328 August 1999£3,421,492
3315 August 1999 Wild Wild West £2,487,176
3422 August 1999Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace£1,420,885
3529 August 1999 South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut £1,496,581
365 September 1999£813,613
3712 September 1999 Eyes Wide Shut £1,189,672
3819 September 1999£881,889
3926 September 1999 The Haunting £1,562,169
403 October 1999 Big Daddy £1,360,121
4110 October 1999 American Pie £2,094,122
4217 October 1999 Deep Blue Sea £1,946,454
4324 October 1999 Tarzan £3,055,218
4431 October 1999 The Blair Witch Project £5,875,318
457 November 1999£2,290,106
4614 November 1999 The Sixth Sense £4,792,296
4721 November 1999£3,277,054
4828 November 1999 The World Is Not Enough £6,273,584
495 December 1999£3,842,119
5012 December 1999£2,329,718
5119 December 1999£1,389,490
5226 December 1999£336,718
532 January 2000£797,142 [7]

Highest grossing films

RankTitleDistributorDomestic gross £m [8]
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

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References

  1. Scott, Mary (12 February 1999). "A Bug's Life Animates Record". Screen International . p. 43.
  2. "International box office: UK/Ireland". Screen International . 2 July 2000. p. 26. Includes previews of £337,517
  3. "International box office: UK/Ireland". Screen International . 9 July 2000. p. 22.
  4. "International box office: UK/Ireland". Screen International . 16 July 2000. p. 30.
  5. "UK weekend box office reports: 2001" (xls). British Film Institute . Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  6. Groves, Don (26 July 1999). "B.O. bakes, shakes". Variety . p. 8. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  7. "International box office: UK/Ireland". Screen International . 7 January 2000. p. 50.
  8. "Top 10 Films 1999". Screen International . 28 January 2000. p. 18.

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