The Secret Life of Pets Storms To UK #1

by Helen Earnshaw | 29 June 2016

The Secret Life of Pets has enjoyed a big opening weekend to take the top spot at the UK box office.

The Secret Life of Pets

The Secret Life of Pets is by the team that brought us Despicable Me and is the latest hit for Illumination Entertainment.

The movie, which also ran preview screenings the weekend before it went on official release, took £9.5 million to hold off the challenge from Independence Day: Resurgence.

The top two was dominated by new entries this weekend as Independence Day: Resurgence had to settle for the second spot. The movie sees Roland Emmerich back in the director's chair and comes twenty years after the release and the success of the first.

The film took just over £5 million in its opening weekend and had to settle for second place - it was also kept off the top of the U.S. box office by animation film Finding Dory.

The Conjuring slipped two places this week to number three while Me Before You was also down at four. The Nice Guys was the first of two films on the up, jumping a single place to round off the top five.

Alice Through The Looking Glass fell out of the of the five this week as it dropped a single place to number six. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows was this week's biggest faller as dropped three places to seven.

X-Men: Apocalypse was down one at eight while The Jungle Book was up to nine from last week's number eleven. So far, the film has grossed over $929 million at the global box office and it the third-highest-grossing film of the year so far.

The Boss was down just a single place this week as it rounded off the top ten.