This is a list of films which have placed number one at the weekend box office in the United Kingdom during 2000.
# | Weekend End Date | Film | Box Office | Notes | Refs |
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1 | 9 January 2000 | Sleepy Hollow | £2,848,933 | ||
2 | 16 January 2000 | £1,739,653 | |||
3 | 23 January 2000 | £1,170,710 | |||
4 | 30 January 2000 | Double Jeopardy | £1,287,911 | [1] | |
5 | 6 February 2000 | American Beauty | £2,836,678 | [2] | |
6 | 13 February 2000 | Toy Story 2 | £7,758,936 | Toy Story 2, in its second week of release, had a record three-day weekend, beating Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace 's 3-day opening, excluding previews. | [3] [4] [5] |
7 | 20 February 2000 | £6,521,187 | [6] | ||
8 | 27 February 2000 | £6,301,601 | [7] | ||
9 | 5 March 2000 | £2,755,664 | |||
10 | 12 March 2000 | £1,622,052 | |||
11 | 19 March 2000 | £1,037,594 | [8] | ||
12 | 26 March 2000 | £732,926 | [8] | ||
13 | 2 April 2000 | Lake Placid | £931,472 | [8] | |
14 | 9 April 2000 | Erin Brockovich | £1,609,930 | ||
15 | 16 April 2000 | Pokémon: The First Movie | £2,833,721 | ||
16 | 23 April 2000 | Kevin & Perry Go Large | £2,404,517 | ||
17 | 30 April 2000 | Scream 3 | £2,449,937 | ||
18 | 7 May 2000 | Kevin & Perry Go Large | £923,483 | ||
19 | 14 May 2000 | Gladiator | £3,555,446 | ||
20 | 21 May 2000 | £3,459,104 | |||
21 | 28 May 2000 | £2,987,696 | |||
22 | 4 June 2000 | £2,073,765 | |||
23 | 11 June 2000 | £1,401,766 | |||
24 | 18 June 2000 | £613,491 | |||
25 | 25 June 2000 | £976,300 | |||
26 | 2 July 2000 | Chicken Run | £3,848,755 | ||
27 | 9 July 2000 | Mission: Impossible 2 | £4,621,948 | ||
28 | 16 July 2000 | Chicken Run | £2,573,372 | ||
29 | 23 July 2000 | Stuart Little | £1,694,498 | ||
30 | 30 July 2000 | The Perfect Storm | £2,181,194 | ||
31 | 6 August 2000 | Gone in 60 Seconds | £1,715,147 | ||
32 | 13 August 2000 | £1,021,267 | |||
33 | 20 August 2000 | X-Men | £4,749,241 | ||
34 | 27 August 2000 | £2,026,544 | |||
35 | 3 September 2000 | Snatch | £3,180,002 | ||
36 | 10 September 2000 | Scary Movie | £2,887,451 | ||
37 | 17 September 2000 | £1,460,710 | |||
38 | 24 September 2000 | Me, Myself & Irene | £1,292,512 | ||
39 | 1 October 2000 | Hollow Man | £1,634,386 | ||
40 | 8 October 2000 | Nutty Professor II: The Klumps | £1,780,521 | [9] | |
41 | 15 October 2000 | Dinosaur | £2,128,218 | [9] | |
42 | 22 October 2000 | What Lies Beneath | £2,258,893 | [9] | |
43 | 29 October 2000 | Dinosaur | £2,173,464 | Dinosaur returned to number one in its third week of release | [9] |
44 | 5 November 2000 | What Lies Beneath | £1,341,518 | What Lies Beneath returned to number one in its third week of release | [10] |
45 | 12 November 2000 | Bedazzled | £1,112,178 | [10] | |
46 | 19 November 2000 | What Lies Beneath | £811,997 | What Lies Beneath returned to number one in its fifth week of release | [10] |
47 | 26 November 2000 | Charlie's Angels | £3,182,114 | [10] | |
48 | 3 December 2000 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas | £3,063,799 | ||
49 | 10 December 2000 | £2,547,769 | |||
50 | 17 December 2000 | Meet the Parents | £2,261,785 | ||
51 | 24 December 2000 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas | £1,588,377 | ||
52 | 31 December 2000 | Unbreakable | £2,004,890 | ||
Rank | Title | Distributor | Domestic gross £m [11] |
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1. | Toy Story 2 | Buena Vista | £43.1 |
2. | Gladiator | UIP | £30.7 |
3. | Chicken Run | Pathé | £29.2 |
4. | American Beauty | UIP | £21.1 |
5. | Stuart Little | CTSI | £17.7 |
6. | Mission: Impossible 2 | UIP | £17.1 |
7. | Billy Elliot | UIP | £16.5 |
8. | X-Men | Fox | £14.8 |
9. | The Beach | Fox | £13.2 |
10. | What Lies Beneath | Fox | £13.1 |
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Total gross includes previews of £287,834