List of 2010 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 2010.

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WeekWeekend End DateFilmTotal weekend gross
(Pound sterling)		Weekend openings in the Top 10Reference(s)
13 January 2010 Avatar [lower-alpha 1] £5,940,479 Did You Hear About the Morgans? (#4) [1]
210 January 2010£4,770,980 Daybreakers (#3), It's Complicated (#5), The Road (#6), Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (#10) [2]
317 January 2010£5,527,039 Up in the Air (#5), The Book of Eli (#6) [3]
424 January 2010£5,155,844 Toy Story 2 3D (#6), Brothers (#9), A Prophet (#10) [4]
531 January 2010£4,865,081 Edge of Darkness (#3), Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire (#9) [5]
67 February 2010£4,338,774 The Princess and the Frog (#2), Astro Boy (#3), Invictus (#4), Youth in Revolt (#7) [6]
714 February 2010 Valentine's Day £3,732,393 The Wolfman (#3), Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (#5), My Name is Khan (#6), A Single Man (#8) [7]
821 February 2010Avatar£2,817,009 The Lovely Bones (#3), Solomon Kane (#7) [8]
928 February 2010£2,260,319 The Crazies (#3), Leap Year (#7), From Paris with Love (#8) [9]
107 March 2010 Alice in Wonderland £10,555,220 [10]
1114 March 2010£7,343,506 Shutter Island (#2), Green Zone (#3), Hachi: A Dog's Tale (#5), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (#6) [11]
1221 March 2010£4,847,129 The Bounty Hunter (#2), I Love You Phillip Morris (#4), The Spy Next Door (#6) [12]
1328 March 2010 Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang £2,586,760 The Blind Side (#3), Shank (#9) [13]
144 April 2010 Clash of the Titans £5,682,875 How to Train Your Dragon (#2), Kick-Ass (#3), Remember Me (#7) [14]
1511 April 2010£2,441,682 Whip It (#8) [15]
1618 April 2010 Dear John £1,995,301 The Ghost Writer (#6), Cemetery Junction (#7) [16]
1725 April 2010 Date Night £1,272,405 It's a Wonderful Afterlife (#7), The Joneses (#10) [17]
182 May 2010 Iron Man 2 £7,664,732 The Last Song (#4), House Full (#10) [18]
199 May 2010£3,214,776 Furry Vengeance (#2), A Nightmare on Elm Street (#3), Hot Tub Time Machine (#4), The Back-up Plan (#5), Four Lions (#6) [19]
2016 May 2010 Robin Hood £5,750,332 [20]
2123 May 2010 StreetDance 3D £2,493,948 Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (#2), Kites (#5), Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (#9) [21]
2230 May 2010 Sex and the City 2 £6,142,718 Tooth Fairy (#5), Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back (#7), The Losers (#8) [22]
236 June 2010£2,473,043 Death at a Funeral (#4), 4.3.2.1 (#7), She's Out of My League (#8) [23]
2413 June 2010£1,489,833 Letters to Juliet (#2), Brooklyn's Finest (#5) [24]
2520 June 2010 Killers £1,053,074 Wild Target (#7) [25]
2627 June 2010 Get Him to the Greek £1,569,556 The Collector (#7) [26]
274 July 2010 Shrek Forever After £8,955,554 I Hate Luv Storys (#5), Heartbreaker (#6) [27]
2811 July 2010 The Twilight Saga: Eclipse £13,756,653 Predators (#3), Milenge Milenge (#10) [28]
2918 July 2010 Inception £5,912,814 Leaving (#9), The Concert (#10) [29]
3025 July 2010 Toy Story 3 £21,187,264 The Rebound (#5), Khatta Meetha (#7), Splice (#9), [30]
311 August 2010£8,115,193 The Karate Kid (#2), The A-Team (#3), Gainsbourg (#8), Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai (#8) [31]
328 August 2010£4,666,021 Knight and Day (#2), Step Up 3D (#4), Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (#5) [32]
3315 August 2010£3,162,944 The Last Airbender (#3), The Sorcerer's Apprentice (#5), Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (#10) [33]
3422 August 2010 The Expendables £3,910,596 Salt (#2), Piranha 3D (#4), Marmaduke (#5) [34]
3529 August 2010 Grown Ups £2,006,945 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (#2), Diary of a Wimpy Kid (#8) [35]
365 September 2010 The Last Exorcism £1,104,856 Dinner for Schmucks (#2), The Switch (#6) [36]
3712 September 2010 Resident Evil: Afterlife £1,690,655 Tamara Drewe (#5), Going the Distance (#7), Cyrus (#8) [37]
3819 September 2010 The Other Guys £1,980,601 Devil (#2) [38]
3926 September 2010£1,292,144 Eat Pray Love (#2), The Town (#3), The Hole (#4) [39]
403 October 2010£976,459 Buried (#3), Made in Dagenham (#6), Back to the Future (#7) [40]
4110 October 2010 Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps £1,784,309 Life as We Know It (#2), The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud (#3) [41]
4217 October 2010 Despicable Me £3,664,376 The Social Network (#2), Vampires Suck (#3) [42]
4324 October 2010 Paranormal Activity 2 £3,764,722 Red (#3), Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (#5), Alpha and Omega (#5), Easy A (#8) [43]
4431 October 2010 Saw 3D £3,600,083 Burke & Hare (#6), The Kids Are All Right (#9) [44]
457 November 2010 Due Date £2,346,089 Jackass 3D (#2), Let Me In (#8), Another Year (#9) [45]
4614 November 2010£1,898,324 Skyline (#2) [46]
4721 November 2010 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 £18,319,721 Guzaarish (#8) [47]
4828 November 2010£8,344,776 Unstoppable (#2), London Boulevard (#3), The American (#5), The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (#7), Machete (#10) [48]
495 December 2010£3,739,781 Megamind (#2), Monsters (#5), The Warrior's Way (#10) [49]
5012 December 2010 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader £2,460,118 The Tourist (#3), Somewhere (#8), No Problem (#9) [50]
5119 December 2010 Tron: Legacy £1,970,692 Burlesque (#6), Animals United (#7), Fred: The Movie (#8) [51]
5226 December 2010 Little Fockers £3,035,717 Tees Maar Khan (#5), Arthur and the Great Adventure (#9) [52]

Notes

  1. ↑ Opened in 2009

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