List of 2020 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 2020.

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Films

†This implies the highest-grossing movie of the year. [1]
WeekWeekend End DateFilmTotal weekend gross
(Pound sterling)		Weekend openings in the Top 10Reference(s)
15 January 2020 Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker [a] £4,396,258 The Gentlemen (#3), Jojo Rabbit (#5), André Rieu: 70 Years Young (#6) [2]
212 January 2020 1917 †£7,446,302 [3]
319 January 2020£6,190,049 Bad Boys for Life (#2), Bombshell (#7), Just Mercy (#9) [4]
426 January 2020£4,518,270 The Personal History of David Copperfield (#3), PAW Patrol: Ready, Race, Rescue (#10) [5]
52 February 2020£2,798,457 Queen & Slim (#7), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (#8), Porgy and Bess – MET Opera (#9), The Lighthouse (#10) [6]
69 February 2020 Dolittle £5,085,520 Birds of Prey (#2), Parasite (#4) [7]
716 February 2020 Sonic the Hedgehog £4,733,768 Emma. (#6), 365 dni (#8) [8]
823 February 2020£4,171,244 The Call of the Wild (#4), Like a Boss (#8), Brahms: The Boy II (#9) [9]
91 March 2020 The Invisible Man £2,163,798 Dark Waters (#4) [10]
108 March 2020 Onward £3,419,500 Military Wives (#3), Fantasy Island (#7) [11]
1115 March 2020£1,272,748 The Hunt (#3), Bloodshot (#4), Misbehaviour (#7), My Spy (#8) [12]
1222 March 2020The Invisible Man£105,000 [13] [14]
13–2629 March 2020 – 28 June 2020British cinemas closed and box office reporting suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic [15]
275 July 2020Onward£21,626 Trolls World Tour (#2), The Greatest Showman (#4), Dirty Dancing (#6), Grease (#7), The Terminator (#8), Star Wars (#9), Fight Club (#10) [16]
2812 July 2020 The Empire Strikes Back £50,406Black Water: Abyss (#3), The Shawshank Redemption (#8), Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (#9) [17]
2919 July 2020Onward£49,271Dreambuilders (#6), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (#8), A Star Is Born (#9) [18]
3026 July 2020£60,074 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (#5), Stage Mother (#7), The Dark Knight Rises (#8) [19]
312 August 2020 Unhinged £175,263 100% Wolf (#3), The Vigil (#5), Proxima (#6), Jurassic Park (#9) [20]
329 August 2020£115,188 An American Pickle (#4), The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (#10) [21]
3316 August 2020 Inception £207,675 Pinocchio (#3), Broken Law (#6), Babyteeth (#8) [22]
3423 August 2020Unhinged£178,820 The Karate Kid (#9) [23]
3530 August 2020 Tenet £5,335,654 Hope Gap (#7), Bring the Soul: The Movie (#8) [b] [24]
366 September 2020£2,151,490 The New Mutants (#2), After We Collided (#6), Black Panther (#9), Les Misérables (#10) [25]
3713 September 2020£1,233,090 Break the Silence: The Movie (#3), The Broken Hearts Gallery (#6), Petla (#7) [26]
3820 September 2020£796,309 Bill & Ted Face the Music (#3), André Rieu's Magical Maastricht: Together In Music (#4), Rocks (#7), White Riot (#9) [27]
3927 September 2020£648,517 Schemers (#10) [28]
404 October 2020£628,148 Cats & Dogs 3: Paws Unite! (#2), The Elfkins – Baking a Difference (#5), On the Rocks (#7), David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet (#8) [29]
4111 October 2020£296,049 Saint Maud (#2), Akira (#3), Kajillionaire (#10) [30]
4218 October 2020£187,275Michael Ball & Alfie Boe: Back Together (#2), Hocus Pocus (#7), I Am Greta (#8) [31]
4325 October 2020Two By Two: Overboard!£329,265 Honest Thief (#2), The Secret Garden (#3), Pixie (#5), All My Life (#9), Max Winslow and the House of Secrets (#10) [32]
441 November 2020£190,761 The Craft: Legacy (#5), Halloween (#8) [33]
458 November 2020The Three Kings£3,521 Words on Bathroom Walls (#4), Wolfwalkers (#7), A Christmas Gift from Bob (#9) [34]
4615 November 2020 The Secret Garden £5,147 Billie (#2), War Horse: National Theatre Live 2014 (#4) [35]
4722 November 2020Two By Two: Overboard!£3,422 Collective (#3), The Kid Detective (#7) [36]
4829 November 2020 Home Alone £2,705 Wolfwalkers (#5), The Muppet Christmas Carol (#7), Back to the Future (#9), Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (#10) [37]
496 December 2020 Elf [c] £48,244A Christmas Carol (#4), The Grinch (#8), Die Hard (#9), Katherine Jenkins' Christmas Spectacular (#10) [38]
5013 December 2020£98,157 Little Mix: LM5 - The Tour Film (#3), Superintelligence (#4) [39]
5120 December 2020 Wonder Woman 1984 £846,435 Come Away (#4) [40]
5227 December 2020£72,674 [41]

Notes

  1. ↑ Opened in 2019
  2. ↑ Originally opened at number 10 in August 2019
  3. ↑ Originally peaked at number 2 when first released in 2003

Highest-grossing films

Highest-grossing films of 2020 by In-year release [1]
RankTitleDistributorDomestic gross
1. 1917 Entertainment One £43,944,156
2. Sonic the Hedgehog Paramount £19,301,130
3. Tenet Warner Bros. £17,469,917
4. Bad Boys for Life Sony £16,214,071
5. Dolittle Universal £15,946,599
6. The Gentlemen Entertainment Film £12,248,887
7. Parasite StudioCanal £12,121,140
8. Birds of Prey Warner Bros.£8,825,588
9. Jojo Rabbit Walt Disney £8,131,485
10. Onward Walt Disney£7,676,576


References

  1. 1 2 "FDA Yearbook 2021". Film Distributors Association. p. 58. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
  2. ↑ Gant, Charles (7 January 2020). "UK box office report, January 3–5: The Rise of Skywalker triumphs as Cats skirts disaster". The Telegraph . Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  3. ↑ Gant, Charles (14 January 2020). "UK box office report, January 10-12: 1917 is on a mission to beat Dunkirk". The Telegraph . Retrieved 16 January 2020.
  4. ↑ Gant, Charles (21 January 2020). "UK box office report, January 17-19: 1917 will set record as UK cinema's biggest grossing First World War film". The Telegraph . Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  5. ↑ Gant, Charles (28 January 2020). "UK box office report, January 24–26: Armando Iannucci's colour-blind casting is paying off handsomely". The Telegraph . Retrieved 30 January 2020.
  6. ↑ Gant, Charles (4 February 2020). "UK box office report, January 31-February 2: The Lighthouse shines, while 1917 battles on". The Telegraph . Retrieved 6 February 2020.
  7. ↑ Gant, Charles (11 February 2020). "UK box office report, February 7–9: Parasite is already a foreign-language phenomenon". The Telegraph . Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  8. ↑ Gant, Charles (18 February 2020). "UK box office report, February 14–16: Parasite thrives, but Sonic the Hedgehog overtakes it". The Telegraph . Retrieved 20 February 2020.
  9. ↑ Gant, Charles (25 February 2020). "UK box office report, February 21–23: Sonic the Hedgehog runs rings around Harrison Ford's fake dog". The Telegraph . Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  10. ↑ Gant, Charles (3 March 2020). "UK box office report, February 28-March 1: The Invisible Man kicks Will Ferrell off a cliff". The Telegraph . Retrieved 5 March 2020.
  11. ↑ Gant, Charles (10 March 2020). "UK box office report, March 6–8: Coronavirus can't keep the Military Wives (or Pixar) down". The Telegraph . Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  12. ↑ Gant, Charles (17 March 2020). "UK box office report, March 13–15: An utter disaster, even before the coronavirus crackdown". The Telegraph . Retrieved 19 March 2020.
  13. ↑ UK box office stalls as cinemas close amid pandemic
  14. ↑ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 20th March 2020 - 22nd March 2020
  15. ↑ Pulver, Andrew (17 March 2020). "Cinemas across the UK to shut in response to coronavirus". The Guardian . Retrieved 17 March 2020.
  16. ↑ Gant, Charles (7 July 2020). "UK box office report, July 3–5: Christopher Nolan, your country needs you". The Telegraph . Retrieved 10 July 2020.
  17. ↑ Gant, Charles (15 July 2020). "UK box office report, July 10–12: Star Wars, you're our only hope". The Telegraph . Retrieved 15 July 2020.
  18. ↑ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 17th July 2020 - 19th July 2020
  19. ↑ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 24th July 2020 - 26th July 2020
  20. ↑ Gant, Charles (4 August 2020). "UK box office report, July 31–August 2: Russell Crowe drives right past a lockdown record". The Telegraph . Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  21. ↑ BFI Weekend Box Office 07/08/2020 - 09/08/2020
  22. ↑ BFI Weekend Box Office 14/08/2020 - 16/08/2020
  23. ↑ BFI Weekend Box Office 21/08/2020 - 23/08/2020
  24. ↑ BFI Weekend Box Office 28/08/2020 - 30/08/2020
  25. ↑ BFI Weekend Box Office 04/09/2020 - 06/09/2020
  26. ↑ BFI Weekend Box Office 11/09/2020 - 13/09/2020
  27. ↑ BFI Weekend Box Office 18/09/2020 - 20/09/2020
  28. ↑ BFI Weekend Box Office 25/09/2020 - 27/09/2020
  29. ↑ BFI Weekend Box Office 02/10/2020 - 04/10/2020
  30. ↑ BFI Weekend Box Office 09/10/2020 - 11/10/2020
  31. ↑ BFI Weekend Box Office 16/10/2020 - 18/10/2020
  32. ↑ BFI Weekend Box Office 23/10/2020 - 25/10/2020
  33. ↑ BFI Weekend Box Office 30/10/2020 - 01/11/2020
  34. ↑ BFI Weekend Box Office 06/11/2020 - 08/11/2020
  35. ↑ BFI Weekend Box Office 13/11/2020 - 15/11/2020
  36. ↑ BFI Weekend Box Office 20/11/2020 - 22/11/2020
  37. ↑ BFI Weekend Box Office 27/11/2020 - 29/11/2020
  38. ↑ BFI Weekend Box Office 04/12/2020 - 06/12/2020
  39. ↑ BFI Weekend Box Office 11/12/2020 - 13/12/2020
  40. ↑ BFI Weekend Box Office 18/12/2020 - 20/12/2020
  41. ↑ BFI Weekend Box Office 25/12/2020 - 27/12/2020
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