List of 2019 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 2019.

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Films

WeekWeekend End DateFilmTotal weekend gross
(Pound sterling)
Weekend openings in the Top 10Reference(s)
16 January 2019 Mary Poppins Returns [lower-alpha 1] £4,444,023 The Favourite (#2), André Rieu's 2019 New Year Concert from Sydney (#4) [1]
213 January 2019 Stan & Ollie £2,578,838 Colette (#7), The Upside (#8) [2]
320 January 2019 Glass £3,423,380 Mary Queen of Scots (#2) [3]
427 January 2019£1,936,631 Vice (#3), Dragon Ball Super: Broly (#7), The Mule (#8), A Dog's Way Home (#9), Love Yourself in Seoul BTS World Tour (#10) [4]
53 February 2019 How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World £5,323,448 Green Book (#2), Escape Room (#4), Can You Ever Forgive Me? (#8) [5]
610 February 2019 The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part £4,016,730 Alita: Battle Angel (#2), All Is True (#10) [6]
717 February 2019£2,472,489 Instant Family (#2), Happy Death Day 2U (#6), The Kid Who Would Be King (#7) [7]
824 February 2019£2,410,824 Cold Pursuit (#6), On the Basis of Sex (#8), Total Dhamaal (#9) [8]
93 March 2019 Fighting with My Family £2,022,174 The Aftermath (#6), Kobiety Mafii 2 (#10) [9]
1010 March 2019 Captain Marvel £12,750,000 The Sleeping BeautyBolshoi Ballet (#9) [10]
1117 March 2019£6,643,217 Fisherman's Friends (#2), What Men Want (#3), Misz Masz Czyli Kogel Mogel 4 (#9) [11]
1224 March 2019£3,378,583 Us (#2), The White Crow (#7), Five Feet Apart (#10) [12]
1331 March 2019 Dumbo £6,076,779 Die Walküre – Met Opera (#7), Lucifer (#8) [13]
147 April 2019 Shazam! £4,067,068 Pet Sematary (#3), Peppa Pig: Festival of Fun (#5), Missing Link (#7), The Sisters Brothers (#9) [14]
1514 April 2019Dumbo£2,345,046 Wonder Park (#3), Hellboy (#4), Wild Rose (#6), Little (#8) [15]
1621 April 2019Shazam!£979,787 Kalank (#4), Red Joan (#5), Greta (#6) [16]
1728 April 2019 Avengers: Endgame £43,400,000 Eighth Grade (#10) [17]
185 May 2019£14,331,192 Long Shot (#2), The Curse of La Llorona (#3), Tolkien (#4), A Dog's Journey (#5) [18]
1912 May 2019 Detective Pikachu £4,951,838 The Hustle (#3), Amazing Grace (#9), Dialogues of the Carmelites – Met Opera (#10) [19]
2019 May 2019 John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum £3,562,524 PAW Patrol Mighty Pups (#5) [20]
2126 May 2019 Aladdin £7,066,773 Rocketman (#2), The Secret Life of Pets 2 (#3), Muklawa (#10) [21]
222 June 2019£4,888,931 Godzilla: King of the Monsters (#2), Booksmart (#7), Ma (#8) [22]
239 June 2019£3,929,625 Dark Phoenix (#2), Take That: Greatest Hits Live (#5), Bharat (#7), Casino Royale (#8) [23]
2416 June 2019£2,881,535 Men in Black: International (#2), Diego Maradona (#9)
2523 June 2019 Toy Story 4 £13,300,000 Brightburn (#5), Child's Play (#9)
2630 June 2019£8,284,437 Yesterday (#2), Apollo 11 (#8) [24]
277 July 2019 Spider-Man: Far From Home £14,148,624 Westlife: The Twenty Tour Live (#4), Midsommar (#5), The Queen's Corgi (#6), Anna (#9) [25]
2814 July 2019£4,396,516 Annabelle Comes Home (#3), Stuber (#9), The Dead Don't Die (#10) [26]
2921 July 2019 The Lion King £16,671,765 [27]
3028 July 2019£10,660,287André Rieu 2019 Maastricht Concert – Shall We Dance? (#4), Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans (#6), The Current War (#8) [28]
314 August 2019 Hobbs & Shaw £6,377,583 Angry Birds 2 (#5), The Magic FluteGlyndebourne 2019 (#10) [29]
3211 August 2019The Lion King£4,366,824 Blinded by the Light (#4), Playmobil: The Movie (#7), Bring the Soul: The Movie (#10) [30]
3318 August 2019 Once Upon a Time in Hollywood £7,544,445 Dora and the Lost City of Gold (#4), Good Boys (#6) [31]
3425 August 2019 Angel Has Fallen £2,122,408 Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (#5), Crawl (#7) [32]
351 September 2019Once Upon a Time in Hollywood£1,841,873 The Informer (#10) [33]
368 September 2019 It Chapter Two £7,368,586Polityka (#5)
3715 September 2019 Downton Abbey £5,180,865 Hustlers (#3) [34]
3822 September 2019£3,280,442 Ad Astra (#2), Rambo: Last Blood (#4) [35]
3929 September 2019£2,682,080 Ready or Not (#4), The Goldfinch (#10) [36]
406 October 2019 Joker £12,555,329 Judy (#2), War (#8) [37]
4113 October 2019£9,766,609 Abominable (#2), Gemini Man (#3), Turandot – Met Opera (#7), The Day Shall Come (#8) [38]
4220 October 2019£5,489,716 Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (#2), A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (#3), Zombieland: Double Tap (#4), Official Secrets (#7) [39]
4327 October 2019£3,464,683 Terminator: Dark Fate (#2), The Addams Family (#4), Countdown (#8), Bigil (#9) [40]
443 November 2019£2,446,200 Doctor Sleep (#4), Sorry We Missed You (#9), DanTDM Presents The Contest (#10) [41]
4510 November 2019£1,668,466 The Aeronauts (#2), The Good Liar (#5), Midway (#6), 42nd Street - The Musical (#7) [42]
4617 November 2019 Last Christmas £2,654,354 Le Mans '66 (#2) [43]
4724 November 2019 Frozen II £15,088,012 Blue Story (#3), 21 Bridges (#5), Akhnaten – Met Opera (#10) [44]
481 December 2019£8,711,498 Knives Out (#2), Charlie's Angels (#5), Proceder (#9), CBeebies Christmas Show 2019: Hansel & Gretel (#10) [45]
498 December 2019£4,397,903 Gremlins (#7), Motherless Brooklyn (#8), Elf (#9) [46]
5015 December 2019 Jumanji: The Next Level £9,464,661 Black Christmas (#5), The Nutcracker – Bolshoi Ballet (#7), Jak Poslubic Milionera (#9) [47]
5122 December 2019 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker £20,864,500 Cats (#2), Dabangg 3 (#7)
5229 December 2019£9,311,240 Little Women (#3), Spies in Disguise (#6), Playing with Fire (#7), Good Newwz (#9)

Notes

  1. Opened in 2018

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