The Revenant Tops UK Box Office

by Helen Earnshaw | 21 January 2016

The Revenant has ended the reign of Star Wars: The Force Awakens at the top of the UK box office as it has stormed to the number one spot.

The Revenant

The Revenant was released on Friday and marked the return of Leonardo DiCaprio to the big screen for the first time since he enjoyed critical acclaim with The Wolf of Wall Street.

The movie, which sees Alejandro González Iñárritu back in the director's chair, took £5.2 million over the weekend to storm to the top spot here in the UK. This box office success comes a week after The Revenant picked up twelve Oscar nominations; including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Director.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens had to relinquish the number one spot as it slipped a single place to this week's number two. The movie has taken over £113 million at the UK box office alone.

Creed was the second new entry inside the top five as the boxing film opened at number three. This is the latest chapter in the Rocky story and sees Sylvester Stallone team up with Michael B Jordan and Ryan Coogler is back in the director's chair.

Daddy's Home was down one at this week's number three and The Hateful Eight was a three place faller as the Quentin Tarantino rounded off the top five.

The Danish Girl fell out of the top five as the film slipped two places from four to this week's number six. Room was another new entry this week as the already critically acclaimed film opened at number seven.

Snoopy and Charlie Brown: The Peanuts Movie was down two at eight while Joy was this week's biggest faller as the Jennifer Lawrence movie dropped four spots to number nine. The live broadcast of Les Pêcheurs de Perles: Metropolitan Opera rounded off the top ten.