List of 2018 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 2018.

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Films

WeekWeekend End DateFilmTotal weekend gross
(Pound sterling)		Weekend openings in the Top 10Reference(s)
17 January 2018 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle [lower-alpha 1] £3,895,450 Molly's Game (#4), All the Money in the World (#6), Hostiles (#9) [1]
214 January 2018 Darkest Hour £4,058,356 Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (#3), Insidious: The Last Key (#5) [2]
321 January 2018 Coco £5,209,214 The Post (#3), The Commuter (#7) [3]
428 January 2018Darkest Hour£2,672,022 Maze Runner: The Death Cure (#3), Early Man (#5), Downsizing (#9), Padmaavat (#10) [4]
54 February 2018 The Greatest Showman [lower-alpha 1] £2,201,523 Den of Thieves (#6), Phantom Thread (#10) [5]
611 February 2018 Fifty Shades Freed £6,132,414 [6]
718 February 2018 Black Panther £17,700,000 The Shape of Water (#3) [7]
825 February 2018£6,859,230 Lady Bird (#3), I, Tonya (#5), Finding Your Feet (#6) [8]
94 March 2018£3,736,954 Red Sparrow (#2), Game Night (#4), Kobiety Mafii (#6) [9]
1011 March 2018£2,931,682 [10]
1118 March 2018 Peter Rabbit £7,237,207 Tomb Raider (#2), My Generation (#10) [11]
1225 March 2018£4,595,239 Pacific Rim Uprising (#2), A Wrinkle in Time (#6), Unsane (#7), Secret Cinema: Blade Runner: The Final Cut (#8) [12]
131 April 2018£5,610,556 Ready Player One (#2), Isle of Dogs (#3), Blockers (#4), Duck Duck Goose (#8) [13]
148 April 2018£3,152,269 A Quiet Place (#2), Love, Simon (#4), Ghost Stories (#8) [14]
1515 April 2018 Rampage £4,109,247 Truth or Dare (#5) [15]
1622 April 2018£1,413,973 The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (#3) [16]
1729 April 2018 Avengers: Infinity War £29,379,496 Cendrillon – Met Opera (#9) [17]
186 May 2018£10,143,580 I Feel Pretty (#2), The Strangers: Prey at Night (#7), Tully (#8), Mary and the Witch's Flower (#10) [18]
1913 May 2018£5,706,170 Sherlock Gnomes (#2), Life of the Party (#4), Breaking In (#5), Raazi (#10) [19]
2020 May 2018 Deadpool 2 £12,974,669 An American in Paris - The Musical (#10) [20]
2127 May 2018 Solo: A Star Wars Story £6,061,231 Show Dogs (#5), On Chesil Beach (#8) [lower-alpha 2] [21]
223 June 2018£3,147,338 Book Club (#5), Veere Di Wedding (#9) [22]
2310 June 2018 Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom £14,334,894 Kaala (#9), McQueen (#10) [23]
2417 June 2018£7,220,952 Hereditary (#2), Race 3 (#5) [24]
2524 June 2018 Ocean's 8 £4,347,070 [25]
261 July 2018Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom£2,001,876 Sicario 2: Soldado (#3), Tag (#4), Sanju (#5), Adrift (#7), Patrick (#8) [26]
278 July 2018 The First Purge £1,778,157 Yellow Submarine [lower-alpha 3] (#10) [27]
2815 July 2018 Incredibles 2 £9,650,000 Skyscraper (#2), The Secret of Marrowbone (#6) [28]
2922 July 2018 Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again £9,735,931 Hotel Artemis (#6), Spitfire (#8), Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! The Movie (#9), Dhadak (#10) [29]
3029 July 2018 Mission: Impossible – Fallout £7,300,103 Hotel Transylvania 3: A Monster Vacation (#4), André Rieu's 2018 Maastricht Concert: Amore, My Tribute to Love (#5) [30]
315 August 2018 Ant-Man and the Wasp £4,988,747 Teen Titans Go! To the Movies (#6) [31]
3212 August 2018 The Meg £3,651,111 The Darkest Minds (#7), Unfriended: Dark Web (#9) [32]
3319 August 2018 Christopher Robin £2,553,810 The Equalizer 2 (#4), The Festival (#5), Secret Cinema: Romeo + Juliet (#9) [33]
3426 August 2018£2,138,824 BlacKkKlansman (#6), The Spy Who Dumped Me (#7) [34]
352 September 2018£1,173,235 Searching (#5), The Happytime Murders (#7) [35]
369 September 2018 The Nun £4,098,198 Black '47 (#10) [36]
3716 September 2018 The Predator £2,394,163 Crazy Rich Asians (#3), King of Thieves (#4) [37]
3823 September 2018 The House with a Clock in Its Walls £3,370,591 A Simple Favour (#2), Mile 22 (#6) [38]
3930 September 2018 Night School £1,596,378 The Wife (#7) [39]
407 October 2018 Venom £8,031,342 Johnny English Strikes Again (#2), A Star Is Born (#3), Aida – Met Opera (#7) [40]
4114 October 2018 A Star Is Born £3,083,089 First Man (#4), Smallfoot (#5), Cliff Richard Live: 60th Anniversary Tour (#6), Kler (#7), Bad Times at the El Royale (#8) [41]
4221 October 2018£2,883,000 Halloween (#2), Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (#3), Hunter Killer (#8), Samson et Dalila – Met Opera (#9) [42]
4328 October 2018 Bohemian Rhapsody £9,530,463 The Hate U Give (#7), La Fanciulla del West – Met Opera (#10) [43]
444 November 2018£5,750,267 The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (#3), Slaughterhouse Rulez (#9), Peterloo (#10) [44]
4511 November 2018 The Grinch £5,019,677 Widows (#3), Overlord (#6), Thugs of Hindostan (#7), Sarkar (#9) [45]
4618 November 2018 Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald £12,318,966 Burn the Stage: The Movie (#8), Suspiria (#9) [46]
4725 November 2018£5,622,755 Robin Hood (#4), Nativity Rocks! (#5), The Girl in the Spider's Web (#6), Planeta Singli 2 (#10) [47]
482 December 2018 Ralph Breaks the Internet £4,032,775 Creed II (#2), 2.0 (#6) [48]
499 December 2018£2,446,583 The Old Man & the Gun (#7), Sorry to Bother You (#8), The Nutcracker – Royal Opera House (#9) [49]
5016 December 2018 Aquaman £5,230,285 Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (#2), Mortal Engines (#5), Free Solo (#9), La traviata - Met Opera (#10) [50]
5123 December 2018 Mary Poppins Returns £8,181,541 Zero (#9) [51]
5230 December 2018£7,441,687 Bumblebee (#2), Holmes & Watson (#4) [52]

Notes

  1. 1 2 Opened in 2017
  2. ↑ On Chesil Beach charted at #11 for week ending 20 May 2018, before entering the top ten in its second week.
  3. ↑ Yellow Submarine, originally released in 1968, was re-released this week for the 50th anniversary.

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  2. ↑ Gant, Charles (16 January 2018). "Gary Oldman's Darkest Hour gives V for victory at UK box office". The Guardian . Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  3. ↑ Gant, Charles (23 January 2018). "Disney's gloriously ghoulish Coco charms UK box office". The Guardian . Retrieved 23 January 2018.
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  6. ↑ Gant, Charles (13 February 2018). "Fifty Shades Freed ties up top spot at UK box office". The Guardian . Retrieved 14 February 2018.
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  12. ↑ Gant, Charles (27 March 2018). "Peter Rabbit thumps Pacific Rim: Uprising at the UK box office". The Guardian . Retrieved 28 March 2018.
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  24. ↑ Gant, Charles (19 June 2018). "Hereditary takes advantage as World Cup scares off major Hollywood releases". The Guardian . Retrieved 19 June 2018.
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  38. ↑ Gant, Charles (25 September 2018). "The House With a Clock in Its Walls ticks up nicely for Steven Spielberg". The Guardian . Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  39. ↑ Gant, Charles (2 October 2018). "Night School is first comedy to top UK box office in 2018". The Guardian . Retrieved 4 October 2018.
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  44. ↑ Gant, Charles (6 November 2018). "It's a kind of magic as Bohemian Rhapsody stays top of UK box office". The Guardian . Retrieved 6 November 2018.
  45. ↑ Gant, Charles (13 November 2018). "The Grinch steals ahead of Bohemian Rhapsody at UK box office". The Guardian . Retrieved 13 November 2018.
  46. ↑ Gant, Charles (20 November 2018). "JK Rowling's Fantastic Beasts trample the Grinch at UK box office". The Guardian . Retrieved 20 November 2018.
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  52. ↑ Gant, Charles (2 January 2019). "Mary Poppins Returns is Christmas winner at UK box office". The Guardian . Retrieved 2 January 2019.
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