List of 2016 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 2016.

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Films

WeekWeekend End DateFilmTotal weekend gross
(Pound sterling)
Weekend openings in the Top 10Reference(s)
13 January 2016 Star Wars: The Force Awakens [lower-alpha 1] £10,304,562 Joy (#3), The Danish Girl (#4) [1]
210 January 2016£6,001,948 The Hateful Eight (#2) [2]
317 January 2016 The Revenant £5,235,851 Creed (#3), Room (#7) [3]
424 January 2016£3,856,489 Ride Along 2 (#2), The Big Short (#4), The 5th Wave (#9) [4]
531 January 2016£2,278,262 Dirty Grandpa (#2), Spotlight (#5), Capture the Flag (#7) [5]
67 February 2016 Goosebumps £2,686,105 Dad's Army (#2), Point Break (#9) [6]
714 February 2016 Deadpool £13,729,803 Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (#2), Zoolander 2 (#3), Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (#10) [7]
821 February 2016£5,694,280 How to Be Single (#3), Triple 9 (#6) [8]
928 February 2016£2,987,877 Grimsby (#2), The Forest (#6) [9]
106 March 2016 London Has Fallen £3,229,675 Hail, Caesar! (#2), The Other Side of the Door (#6) [10]
1113 March 2016 Kung Fu Panda 3 £4,771,131 The Divergent Series: Allegiant (#2), The Witch (#7), Anomalisa (#10) [11]
1220 March 2016£1,740,695 10 Cloverfield Lane (#2), The Boy (#5), High-Rise (#6), Kapoor & Sons (#10) [12]
1327 March 2016 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice £14,621,007 Zootropolis (#2), My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (#4) [13]
143 April 2016£4,661,959 Eddie the Eagle (#2) [14]
1510 April 2016 The Huntsman: Winter's War £3,032,962 Midnight Special (#6), Hardcore Henry (#10) [15]
1617 April 2016 The Jungle Book £9,901,921 Eye in the Sky (#3), Fan (#7), Theri (#8), Criminal (#9) [16]
1724 April 2016£8,895,442 Bastille Day (#3), Friend Request (#5), Miles Ahead (#10) [17]
181 May 2016 Captain America: Civil War £14,466,681 Demolition (#6), Son of Saul (#8) [18]
198 May 2016£4,806,575 Bad Neighbours 2 (#3), Florence Foster Jenkins (#4), Robinson Crusoe (#5), 24 (#10) [19]
2015 May 2016£2,789,985 The Angry Birds Movie (#2), Our Kind of Traitor (#6), Everybody Wants Some!! (#7), Green Room (#10) [20]
2122 May 2016 X-Men: Apocalypse £7,354,293 A Hologram for the King (#6), Thomas & Friends: The Great Race (#10) [21]
2229 May 2016£2,543,481 Alice Through the Looking Glass (#2), Money Monster (#4), Love and Friendship (#8), Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants (#10) [22]
235 June 2016 Warcraft: The Beginning £3,623,725 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (#2), Me Before You (#3), The Nice Guys (#6), Housefull 3 (#10) [23]
2412 June 2016 Me Before You £1,453,859 The Boss (#7), Mother's Day (#9) [24]
2519 June 2016 The Conjuring 2 £4,637,862 Gods of Egypt (#3) [25]
2626 June 2016 The Secret Life of Pets £9,793,723 Independence Day: Resurgence (#2) [26]
273 July 2016£4,739,295 Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (#2), Central Intelligence (#3) [27]
2810 July 2016£3,624,751 The Legend of Tarzan (#2), Now You See Me 2 (#3), Sultan (#6), The Neon Demon (#9) [28]
2917 July 2016 Ghostbusters £4,388,944 Ice Age: Collision Course (#2), Dirty Dancing (#6) [29]
3024 July 2016 The BFG £5,288,529 Star Trek Beyond (#2), Andre Rieu's 2016 Maastricht Concert (#3) [30]
3131 July 2016 Finding Dory £8,122,075 Jason Bourne (#2), Dishoom (#10) [31]
327 August 2016 Suicide Squad £11,252,225 [32]
3314 August 2016£4,241,598 Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (#5), Pete's Dragon (#6), Nerve (#7), The Shallows (#8) [33]
3421 August 2016Finding Dory£2,868,459 David Brent: Life on the Road (#3), Lights Out (#6), Swallows and Amazons (#8), Nine Lives (#9) [34]
3528 August 2016£1,932,155 Bad Moms (#2), War Dogs (#4), The Purge: Election Year (#5), Mechanic: Resurrection (#10) [35]
364 September 2016 Sausage Party £2,690,156 Brotherhood (#2), Café Society (#9) [36]
3711 September 2016£1,219,972 Ben-Hur (#2), Don't Breathe (#3), Kubo and the Two Strings (#5), Hell Or High Water (#7) [37]
3818 September 2016 Bridget Jones's Baby £8,013,318 Blair Witch (#2), The Beatles: Eight Days a Week (#3), The Infiltrator (#9) [38]
3925 September 2016£6,453,799 The Magnificent Seven (#2), The Girl with All the Gifts (#5) [39]
402 October 2016£4,807,165 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (#2), Deepwater Horizon , (#3) Supersonic (#5), M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (#10) [40]
419 October 2016 The Girl on the Train £6,957,945 War on Everyone (#7), Tristan Und Isolde – Met Opera (#8) [41]
4216 October 2016£3,412,472 Inferno (#2), Storks (#3), Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary Performance (#4), American Honey (#10) [42]
4323 October 2016 Trolls £5,440,878 Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (#2), Ouija: Origin of Evil (#6), I, Daniel Blake (#9), Keeping Up with the Joneses (#10) [43]
4430 October 2016 Doctor Strange £9,288,898 Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (#8) [44]
456 November 2016£3,445,203 The Accountant (#3), A Street Cat Named Bob (#4), Nocturnal Animals (#5), The Light Between Oceans (#6) [45]
4613 November 2016 Arrival £2,924,059 [46]
4720 November 2016 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them £15,333,146André Rieu:Christmas with André (#4) [47]
4827 November 2016£8,892,489 A United Kingdom (#6), Dear Zindagi (#9), Paterson (#10) [48]
494 December 2016£4,494,727 Moana (#2), Sully: Miracle on the Hudson (#3), Pitbull: Tough Women (#5), The Edge of Seventeen (#9), Bleed for This (#10) [49]
5011 December 2016£2,734,960 Office Christmas Party (#4), Snowden (#8), Befikre (#10) [50]
5118 December 2016 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story £17,305,011The Nutcracker - Bolshoi Ballet (#7) [51]
5225 December 2016£5,634,115 Passengers (#2), Ballerina (#8), Dangal (#9) [52]
531 January 2017£5,959,299 Why Him? (#2), Monster Trucks (#4), Collateral Beauty (#7) [53]

Notes

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