A £2.5 million debut gross is just enough to ensure that the Ewan McGregor starring film gets to the top.
The film directed by Marc Foster and has CGI animated versions of your favourite Pooh characters has been met with positive reviews which could give it a good run on the UK box office.
Coming in at number 2 again is the Mamma Mia! sequel which again only just misses out on going back to the top with a £2.2 million weekend gross.
The film is yes again the highest grossing film on the full Monday - Sunday chart with £6.2 million, its total UK gross is now £54 million and its the second highest grossing film of the year, behing Avengers Infinity War.
The Meg falls from the top to number 3 this week with £2.1 million for a total gross of £8.5,million.
New at number 4 is sequel The Equalizer 2 starring Denzel Washington with a £1.9 million debut weekend.
Also new at number 5 is The Festival from the makers of The Inbetweeners which takes £1.4 million on its debut.
This is a far cry from the heights of the two Inbetweeners movies which took £13 million and £12 million respectively on their debuts.
Highest total grossing movie on the UK box office this week is Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.
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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.