List of 2013 box office number-one films in the United Kingdom

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This is a list of films which have reached number one at the weekend box office in the United Kingdom during 2013.

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Films

WeekWeekend end dateFilmTotal weekend gross
(Pound sterling)		Weekend openings in the Top 10Reference(s)
16 January 2013 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey [lower-alpha 1] £4,075,781 The Impossible (#2), Quartet (#4) [1]
213 January 2013 Les Misérables £8,127,991 Gangster Squad (#3), Texas Chainsaw 3D (#6) [2]
320 January 2013£4,406,828 Django Unchained (#2) [3]
427 January 2013£4,016,611 Lincoln (#3), Zero Dark Thirty (#5), Movie 43 (#7), Monsters, Inc. 3D (#8), The Last Stand (#10) [4]
53 February 2013£2,785,143 Flight (#3), Bullet to the Head (#9) [5]
610 February 2013 Wreck-It Ralph £4,526,380 I Give It a Year (#3), Warm Bodies (#6), Hitchcock (#8) [6]
717 February 2013 A Good Day to Die Hard £4,551,115 This Is 40 (#3), Beautiful Creatures (#5), Sammy's Great Escape (#8) [7]
824 February 2013Wreck-It Ralph£3,420,196 Mama (#3), Cloud Atlas (#6), Song for Marion (#8) [8]
93 March 2013 Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters £1,502,782 Safe Haven (#5), Broken City (#7), Arbitrage (#9), Stoker (#10) [9]
1010 March 2013 Oz the Great and Powerful £3,712,948 Side Effects (#2), Parker (#4), The Guilt Trip (#7) [10]
1117 March 2013£2,609,465 Welcome to the Punch (#3), The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (#6), Red Dawn (#7) [11]
1224 March 2013 The Croods £5,372,290 Jack the Giant Slayer (#2), Identity Thief (#4), Stolen (#7) [12]
1331 March 2013£3,305,642 G.I. Joe: Retaliation (#2), Trance (#3), The Host (#5), Finding Nemo (#9), Dans La Maison (In the House) (#10) [13]
147 April 2013£2,364,348 Dark Skies (#3), Spring Breakers (#9), The Odd Life of Timothy Green (#10) [14]
1514 April 2013 Oblivion £4,959,386 Scary Movie 5 (#3), The Place Beyond the Pines (#4) [15]
1621 April 2013 Olympus Has Fallen £2,247,900 Evil Dead (#3), Love Is All You Need (#7) [16]
1728 April 2013 Iron Man 3 £13,711,048 The Look of Love (#7) [17]
185 May 2013£6,307,191 21 & Over (#2), All Stars (#4), I'm So Excited (#7), Dead Man Down (#8) [18]
1912 May 2013 Star Trek Into Darkness £8,431,574 Mud (#7) [19]
2019 May 2013 Fast & Furious 6 £8,717,534 The Great Gatsby (#2) [20]
2126 May 2013 The Hangover Part III £5,964,619 Epic (#3), The Moth Diaries (#7) [21]
222 June 2013£2,917,887 The Purge (#6), The Big Wedding (#7), Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (#9), Byzantium (#10) [22]
239 June 2013 After Earth £2,249,532 Behind the Candelabra (#8), The Stone Roses: Made of Stone (#9), The Iceman (#10) [23]
2416 June 2013 Man of Steel £11,198,786 Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (#10) [24]
2523 June 2013£5,073,356 World War Z (#2), Snitch (#6), Before Midnight (#8) [25]
2630 June 2013 Despicable Me 2 £14,822,427 This is the End (#4), Hummingbird (#5) [26]
277 July 2013£3,996,837 Now You See Me (#2), The Internship (#3), The Bling Ring (#7), Lootera (#8), Singam II (#9) [27]
2814 July 2013 Monsters University £3,463,917 Pacific Rim (#3), Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (#9) [28]
2921 July 2013£2,791,078 The World's End (#2), The Frozen Ground (#9) [29]
3028 July 2013 The Wolverine £4,694,092 Frances Ha (#9) [30]
314 August 2013 The Smurfs 2 £3,220,911 The Heat (#2), The Conjuring (#3), Red 2 (#7), Only God Forgives (#9) [31]
3211 August 2013 Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa £2,175,850 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (#2), Grown Ups 2 (#3), The Lone Ranger (#5), Chennai Express (#10) [32]
3318 August 2013 Kick-Ass 2 £2,482,187 Planes (#2), 2 Guns (#3) [33]
3425 August 2013 Elysium £3,127,005 We're the Millers (#2), The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (#4) [34]
351 September 2013 One Direction: This Is Us £3,471,872 Pain & Gain (#4), The Way Way Back (#6), You're Next (#7) [35]
368 September 2013 About Time £1,761,079 Riddick (#2) [36]
3715 September 2013 Insidious: Chapter 2 £2,877,742 Rush (#2), White House Down (#3), Justin and the Knights of Valour (#5) [37]
3822 September 2013Rush£1,336,449 Diana (#5), R.I.P.D. (#7), The Call (#8) [38]
3929 September 2013 Prisoners £1,365,527 Blue Jasmine (#3), Runner, Runner (#4) [39]
406 October 2013£1,107,641 Filth (#2), Sunshine on Leith (#3) [40]
4113 October 2013£968,990 The Fifth Estate (#6) [41]
4220 October 2013 Turbo £3,892,774 Captain Phillps (#2), Escape Plan (#3), Boss (#9) [42]
4327 October 2013 Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 £3,658,619 Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (#3), Ender's Game (#5), One Chance (#6) [43]
443 November 2013 Thor: The Dark World £8,668,172 Philomena (#4), Krrish 3 (#8) [44]
4510 November 2013 Gravity £6,238,375 [45]
4617 November 2013£4,838,152 The Counselor (#4), The Butler (#5), Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela (#10) [46]
4724 November 2013 The Hunger Games: Catching Fire £12,189,733 Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor (#3), The Family (#8), André Rieu: Home for Christmas (#9) [47]
481 December 2013£5,525,476 Free Birds (#3), Saving Mr. Banks (#4), Carrie (#5) [48]
498 December 2013 Frozen £4,704,940 Homefront (#5), Nebraska (#10) [49]
5015 December 2013 The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug £9,325,626Falstaff: Met Opera 2013 (#6) [50]
5122 December 2013£5,358,380 Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (#2), Walking With Dinosaurs (#4), Dhoom 3 (#5), The Harry Hill Movie (#7), Moshi Monsters: The Movie (#8) [51]
5229 December 2013£5,450,824 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (#4), 47 Ronin (#5) [52]

Notes

  1. ↑ Opened in 2012

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