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

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

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 [41]
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


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  2. ↑ 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.
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  18. ↑ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 24th July 2020 - 26th July 2020
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  21. ↑ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 14th August 2020 - 16th August 2020
  22. ↑ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 21st August 2020 - 23rd August 2020
  23. ↑ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 28th August 2020 - 30th August 2020
  24. ↑ BFI Weekend Box Office 04/09/2020 - 06/09/2020
  25. ↑ BFI Weekend Box Office 11/09/2020 - 13/09/2020
  26. ↑ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 18th September 2020 - 20th September 2020
  27. ↑ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 25th September 2020 - 27th September 2020
  28. ↑ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 2nd October 2020 - 4th October 2020
  29. ↑ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 9th October 2020 - 11th October 2020
  30. ↑ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 16th October 2020 - 18th October 2020
  31. ↑ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 23rd October 2020 - 25th October 2020
  32. ↑ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 30th October 2020 - 1st November 2020
  33. ↑ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 6th November 2020 - 8th November 2020
  34. ↑ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 13th November 2020 - 15th November 2020
  35. ↑ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 20th November 2020 - 22nd November 2020
  36. ↑ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 27th November 2020 - 29th November 2020
  37. ↑ Historical U.K. Weekend Box Office: 4th December 2020 - 6th December 2020
  38. ↑ BFI Weekend Box Office 11/12/2020 - 13/12/2020
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