List of 2000 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 2000.

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#Weekend End DateFilmBox OfficeNotesRefs
19 January 2000 Sleepy Hollow £2,848,933 [1]
216 January 2000£1,739,653 [2]
323 January 2000£1,170,710 [3]
430 January 2000 Double Jeopardy £1,287,911 [4]
56 February 2000 American Beauty £2,836,678American Beauty reached number one in its second weekend of release and had a record weekend for an 18-certificate film beating Alien Resurrection 's £2.7 million. [5] [6]
613 February 2000 Toy Story 2 £7,758,936Toy Story 2, in its second week of release, had a record three-day weekend, beating Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace 's 3-day opening, excluding previews. [7] [8] [9]
720 February 2000£6,521,187 [10]
827 February 2000£6,301,601 [11]
95 March 2000£2,755,664 [12]
1012 March 2000£1,622,052 [13]
1119 March 2000£1,037,594 [14] [15]
1226 March 2000£732,926 [14] [16]
132 April 2000 Lake Placid £931,472 [14] [17]
149 April 2000 Erin Brockovich £1,609,930 [18]
1516 April 2000 Pokémon: The First Movie £2,833,721 [19]
1623 April 2000 Kevin & Perry Go Large £2,404,517 [20]
1730 April 2000 Scream 3 £2,449,937 [21]
187 May 2000Kevin & Perry Go Large£923,483Kevin & Perry Go Large returned to number one in its third week of release [22]
1914 May 2000 Gladiator £3,555,446 [23]
2021 May 2000£3,459,104 [24]
2128 May 2000£2,987,696 [25]
224 June 2000£2,073,765 [26]
2311 June 2000£1,401,766 [27]
2418 June 2000£613,491 [28]
2525 June 2000£976,300 [29]
262 July 2000 Chicken Run £3,848,755 [30]
279 July 2000 Mission: Impossible 2 £4,621,948 [31]
2816 July 2000Chicken Run£2,573,372Chicken Run returned to number one in its third week of release [32]
2923 July 2000 Stuart Little £1,694,498Stuart Little reached number one in its fourth week of release [33]
3030 July 2000 The Perfect Storm £2,181,194 [34]
316 August 2000 Gone in 60 Seconds £1,715,147 [35]
3213 August 2000£1,021,267 [36]
3320 August 2000 X-Men £4,749,241 [37]
3427 August 2000£2,026,544 [38]
353 September 2000 Snatch £3,180,002Snatch beat American Beauty's record weekend for an 18-certificate film [39] [6]
3610 September 2000 Scary Movie £3,191,096 [40]
3717 September 2000£1,460,710 [41]
3824 September 2000 Me, Myself & Irene £1,292,512 [42]
391 October 2000 Hollow Man £1,634,386 [43]
408 October 2000 Nutty Professor II: The Klumps £1,780,521 [44] [45]
4115 October 2000 Dinosaur £2,128,218 [44] [46]
4222 October 2000 What Lies Beneath £2,258,893 [44] [47]
4329 October 2000Dinosaur£2,173,178Dinosaur returned to number one in its third week of release [44] [48]
445 November 2000What Lies Beneath£1,341,518What Lies Beneath returned to number one in its third week of release [49] [50]
4512 November 2000 Bedazzled £1,112,178 [49] [51]
4619 November 2000What Lies Beneath£811,997What Lies Beneath returned to number one in its fifth week of release [49] [52]
4726 November 2000 Charlie's Angels £3,182,114 [49] [53]
483 December 2000 How the Grinch Stole Christmas £3,063,799 [54]
4910 December 2000£2,547,769 [55]
5017 December 2000 Meet the Parents £2,261,785
5124 December 2000How the Grinch Stole Christmas£1,588,377
5231 December 2000 Unbreakable £2,002,862 [56]

Highest grossing films

RankTitleDistributorDomestic gross £m [57]
1. Toy Story 2 Buena Vista £43.1
2. Gladiator UIP £30.7
3. Chicken Run Pathé £29.2
4. American Beauty UIP£21.1
5. Stuart Little CTSI £17.7
6. Mission: Impossible 2 UIP£17.1
7. Billy Elliot UIP£16.5
8. X-Men Fox £14.8
9. The Beach Fox£13.2
10. What Lies Beneath Fox£13.1

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