With a 3 day weekend gross of £4,075,781 The Hobbit stays put at the top of the UK box office for an amazing fourth week. The total gross for the Middle –Earth film is now just shy of £45 million, and is the 30th top film in the UK.
The Impossible is the highest new film at 2, starring Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts it's the true story of a family lost in the Boxing Day tsunami that happened in Thailand in 2004. With little publicity until recent weeks the film took a decent £ 4,034,470 over the weekend.
This time last year Tom Cruise was still at the top with
Five years ago
Ten Years ago
Fifteen years ago Paul Verhoevens Robert has been a film buff since he first visited the old Palace Cinema in High Wycome when he was young. After working for Ritz Video Film Hire, later Blockbuster Express, it cemented his interest in film and gave him the drive to go to university with the intention of working in the industy. 6 years of college/university studying film and Culture and he decided to take a different path, so he taught himself to develop websites. 8 years at Amazon, 3 years at eBay, a year at PayPal and 6 years running his own digital marketing agency and here we are writing and developing saltypopcorn.co.uk.This weeks top 10 UK Box Office films
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