List of 2014 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 2014.

Films

WeekWeekend end dateFilmTotal weekend gross
(Pound sterling)
Weekend openings in the Top 10Reference(s)
15 January 2014 American Hustle £3,467,644 Last Vegas (#4), Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (#5), Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (#7) [1]
212 January 2014 12 Years a Slave £2,511,348 The Railway Man (#6), Delivery Man (#7) [2]
319 January 2014 The Wolf of Wall Street £4,655,984 Devil's Due (#5) [3]
426 January 2014£3,608,968 Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (#3), Inside Llewyn Davis (#6), August: Osage County (#7) [4]
52 February 2014£2,385,585 That Awkward Moment (#3), I, Frankenstein (#4), Lone Survivor (#6) [5]
69 February 2014 Mr. Peabody & Sherman £3,916,559 RoboCop (#2), Dallas Buyers Club (#4), Rusalka: Met Opera 2014 (#10) [6]
716 February 2014 The Lego Movie £8,051,140 The Monuments Men (#2), Tinker Bell and the Pirate Fairy (#6), Cuban Fury (#7), Endless Love (#8) [7]
823 February 2014£5,978,904 [8]
92 March 2014£3,226,594 Non-Stop (#2), Ride Along (#3), The Book Thief (#4) [9]
109 March 2014 300: Rise of an Empire £2,761,612 The Grand Budapest Hotel (#3), Escape from Planet Earth (#7) [10]
1116 March 2014 Need for Speed £2,011,249 Under the Skin (#10) [11]
1223 March 2014The Grand Budapest Hotel£1,267,408 Starred Up (#6), A Long Way Down (#7), Labor Day (#8) [12]
1330 March 2014 Captain America: The Winter Soldier £6,037,850 Muppets Most Wanted (#2), The Legend of Hercules (#9) [13]
146 April 2014 Rio 2 £2,882,680 Noah (#3), Divergent (#4), La Bohème: Met Opera 2014 (#7), The Double (#8) [14]
1513 April 2014Captain America: The Winter Soldier£1,782,201 The Quiet Ones (#5), Calvary (#7), The Raid 2 (#8) [15]
1620 April 2014 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 £9,011,114 The Love Punch (#5), Locke (#9), 2 States (#10) [16]
1727 April 2014£3,366,372 The Other Woman (#2), Transcendence (#3), Cosi Fan Tutte: Met Opera 2014 (#7) [17]
184 May 2014£1,984,667 Pompeii (#3), Tarzan (#4), Plastic (#10) [18]
1911 May 2014 Bad Neighbours £8,446,240 Sabotage (#7), La Cenerentola: Met Opera 2014 (#8), Frank (#10) [19]
2018 May 2014 Godzilla £6,385,483 The Two Faces of January (#5), The Wind Rises (#9) [20]
2125 May 2014 X-Men: Days of Future Past £9,144,971 Postman Pat: The Movie (#4), Blended (#5) [21]
221 June 2014 Maleficent £6,590,071 Edge of Tomorrow (#3), A Million Ways to Die in the West (#4), Jimmy's Hall (#10) [22]
238 June 2014 22 Jump Street £4,854,991D-Day 70 Years On (#7), Grace of Monaco (#9) [23]
2415 June 2014£2,255,100 Oculus (#5), Belle (#6), Devil's Knot (#9) [24]
2522 June 2014 The Fault in Our Stars £3,434,334 Jersey Boys (#6), 3 Days to Kill (#7), Humshakals (#10) [25]
2629 June 2014 Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie £4,301,306 Chef (#5), How to Train Your Dragon 2 (#6), Walking on Sunshine (#7) [26]
276 July 2014£2,188,761 Tammy (#5) [27]
2813 July 2014 Transformers: Age of Extinction £11,751,427 Begin Again (#5), Boyhood (#7) [28]
2920 July 2014 Dawn of the Planet of the Apes £8,705,995 Monty Python Live (Mostly) (#4), Pudsey the Dog: The Movie (#7) [29]
3027 July 2014£3,752,511 Hercules (#2), The Purge: Anarchy (#3), Earth to Echo (#6), Kick (#8), The House of Magic (#10) [30]
313 August 2014 Guardians of the Galaxy £6,363,110 The Nut Job (#6), Back to the Future (#7), Step Up: All In (#9) [31]
3210 August 2014 The Inbetweeners 2 £12,538,114 Planes: Fire & Rescue (#4) [32]
3317 August 2014£4,309,832 The Expendables 3 (#3), Hector and the Search for Happiness (#9) [33]
3424 August 2014 Lucy £3,076,997 Into the Storm (#4), Deliver Us from Evil (#5), What If? (#6), Doctor Who: Deep Breath (#8) [34]
3531 August 2014£1,972,039 Let's Be Cops (#2), If I Stay (#6), As Above, So Below (#8) [35]
367 September 2014 Sex Tape £1,431,058 Before I Go to Sleep (#3), The Hundred-Foot Journey (#4), The Guest (#8) [36]
3714 September 2014 The Boxtrolls £2,000,597 Pride (#3), A Most Wanted Man (#5) [37]
3821 September 2014£1,333,137 A Walk Among the Tombstones (#2), The Riot Club (#5), 20,000 Days on Earth (#8) [38]
3928 September 2014 Billy Elliot the Musical Live £1,904,098 The Equalizer (#2), What We Did on Our Holiday (#4) [39]
405 October 2014 Gone Girl £4,109,628 Dracula Untold (#2), Bang Bang! (#6), Dolphin Tale (#7) [40]
4112 October 2014£3,064,545 The Maze Runner (#2), Annabelle (#3), One Direction: Where We Are – The Concert Film (#4), The Rewrite (#8) [41]
4219 October 2014 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles £4,785,448 The Best of Me (#5), The Judge (#9), Northern Soul (#10) [42]
4326 October 2014 Fury £2,692,786 The Book of Life (#4), Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (#7), Happy New Year (#8), Love, Rosie (#9), The Babadook (#10) [43]
442 November 2014Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles£1,429,159 Ouija (#2), Nightcrawler (#6), Mr. Turner (#7) [44]
459 November 2014 Interstellar £5,378,220 [45]
4616 November 2014£3,777,804 The Imitation Game (#2), Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey? (#3), The Drop (#5) [46]
4723 November 2014 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 £12,654,109Il Barbiere Di Siviglia: Met Opera 2014 (#8) [47]
4830 November 2014 Paddington £5,125,519 Horrible Bosses 2 (#4), Hockney (#8) [48]
497 December 2014£3,837,885 Penguins of Madagascar (#3), Get Santa (#6), St. Vincent (#9), Black Sea (#10) [49]
5014 December 2014 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies £9,753,642 Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast (#7) [50]
5121 December 2014£5,409,312 Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (#3), Dumb and Dumber To (#4), PK (#7) [51]
5228 December 2014£4,249,226 Exodus: Gods and Kings (#2), Annie (#4), Unbroken (#7) [52]

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