List of 2015 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 2015.

Films

WeekWeekend end dateFilmTotal weekend gross
(Pound sterling)		Weekend openings in the Top 10Reference(s)
14 January 2015 The Theory of Everything £3,749,689 The Woman in Black: Angel of Death (#4), Birdman (#7) [1]
211 January 2015 Taken 3 £6,714,530 Into the Woods (#2), Foxcatcher (#6) [2]
318 January 2015£3,295,309 American Sniper (#2), Whiplash (#7), Wild (#9) [3]
425 January 2015American Sniper£2,539,534 Ex Machina (#5), Mortdecai (#7), The Gambler (#8) [4]
51 February 2015 Big Hero 6 £4,293,286 Kingsman: The Secret Service (#2), Inherent Vice (#9) [5]
68 February 2015£2,540,116 Shaun the Sheep Movie (#3), Jupiter Ascending (#4), Selma (#6) [6]
715 February 2015 Fifty Shades of Grey £13,550,290Peppa Pig: The Golden Boots (#6) [7]
822 February 2015£4,597,092 The Wedding Ringer (#5), Project Almanac (#6) [8]
91 March 2015 The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel £3,771,852 Focus (#3), The Boy Next Door (#7), It Follows (#8) [9]
108 March 2015£1,957,256 Chappie (#4), Still Alice (#8), Unfinished Business (#9) [10]
1115 March 2015£1,409,311 Run All Night (#2), Suite Française (#4) [11]
1222 March 2015 Home £6,025,917 The Divergent Series: Insurgent (#2), The Gunman (#5), Wild Card (#10) [12]
1329 March 2015 Cinderella £3,803,799 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (#3), Get Hard (#4), Seventh Son (#7), Wild Tales (#9) [13]
145 April 2015 Fast & Furious 7 £12,765,033 The Water Diviner (#7), While We're Young (#8), Blade Runner (#9) [14]
1512 April 2015£5,407,918 The Duff (#4), John Wick (#6), Woman in Gold (#7), Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (#8) [15]
1619 April 2015£3,039,720 Child 44 (#4), A Little Chaos (#7) [16]
1726 April 2015 Avengers: Age of Ultron £18,015,774 The Falling (#10) [17]
183 May 2015£8,591,670 Far from the Madding Crowd (#2), Unfriended (#3), Two By Two (#7) [18]
1910 May 2015£3,462,468 Spooks: The Greater Good (#2), The Age of Adaline (#5), Big Game (#7) [19]
2017 May 2015 Pitch Perfect 2 £5,005,394 Mad Max: Fury Road (#2) [20]
2124 May 2015£2,665,428 Tomorrowland (#3), Poltergeist (#4), Tanu Weds Manu Returns (#9) [21]
2231 May 2015 San Andreas £4,628,394 Man Up (#7), Danny Collins (#10) [22]
237 June 2015 Spy £2,557,824 Insidious: Chapter 3 (#3) The Empire Strikes Back (#8) [23]
2414 June 2015 Jurassic World £19,350,727 London Road (#8) [24]
2521 June 2015£11,133,912 Take That Live 2015 (#2), Mr. Holmes (#4), Entourage (#5), The Longest Ride (#7) [25]
2628 June 2015 Minions £11,558,946 Knock, Knock (#7), Slow West (#10) [26]
275 July 2015£6,238,498 Terminator Genisys (#2), Magic Mike XXL (#4), Amy (#5), Guillaume Tell: Royal Opera House (#8) [27]
2812 July 2015£4,154,359 Ted 2 (#2), Love & Mercy (#9), Song of the Sea (#10) [28]
2919 July 2015 Ant-Man £4,011,345Andre Rieu’s 2015 Maastricht Concert (#5), Bajrangi Bhaijaan (#7), The Gallows (#9) [29]
3026 July 2015 Inside Out £7,376,513 Southpaw (#4) [30]
312 August 2015 Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation £5,351,344 Hot Pursuit (#7) [31]
329 August 2015 Fantastic Four £2,686,176 The Gift (#5) [32]
3316 August 2015 Pixels £2,660,772 The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (#4), Trainwreck (#5), Absolutely Anything (#9) [33]
3423 August 2015 Paper Towns £2,072,789 Sinister 2 (#3), Vacation (#7), The Bad Education Movie (#8) [34]
3530 August 2015 Straight Outta Compton £2,498,231 Hitman: Agent 47 (#3), 45 Years (#10) [35]
366 September 2015£1,366,741 No Escape (#3), Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (#5), The Transporter Refueled (#7), American Ultra (#8) [36]
3713 September 2015 Legend £5,189,074 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (#2), The Visit (#3), Irrational Man (#10) [37]
3820 September 2015 Everest £3,160,154 A Walk in the Woods (#8), The Battle of Britain at 75 (#9), Bill (#10) [38]
3927 September 2015£1,996,439 Miss You Already (#4), Solace (#6) [39]
404 October 2015 The Martian £6,531,734 The Intern (#4), Macbeth (#5), Il Trovatore – Met Opera (#7), Singh Is Bliing (#9) [40]
4111 October 2015£3,854,809 Sicario (#2), The Walk (#3), Regression (#9) [41]
4218 October 2015 Hotel Transylvania 2 £6,317,438 Suffragette (#2), Pan (#3), Crimson Peak (#5), The Lobster (#9) [42]
4325 October 2015£2,275,612 Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension (#3), The Last Witch Hunter (#5) [43]
441 November 2015 Spectre £41,299,090 Tannhauser – Met Opera (#8) [44]
458 November 2015£13,145,138 Brooklyn (#3), Burnt (#5), Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (#8) [45]
4615 November 2015£7,833,891 The Lady in the Van (#2), Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (#4), Steve Jobs (#5) [46]
4722 November 2015 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 £11,255,566 The Dressmaker (#7), The Perfect Guy (#10) [47]
4829 November 2015£4,534,464 The Good Dinosaur (#2), Bridge of Spies (#4), Black Mass (#5), Carol (#7), Tamasha (#8) [48]
496 December 2015£2,240,723 Christmas With The Coopers (#5), Victor Frankenstein (#8), Krampus (#9) [49]
5013 December 2015£1,286,244 [50]
5120 December 2015 Star Wars: The Force Awakens £34,041,968 Sisters (#2), Dilwale (#4), Bajirao Mastani (#7) [51]
5227 December 2015£10,164,805 Snoopy And Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie (#2), Daddy's Home (#3), In The Heart Of The Sea (#4) [52]

1 Spectre's opening gross was for a 7-day period, not a weekend, as the film opened on a Monday.

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