List of 2016 box office number-one films in the United Kingdom

This is a list of films which have placed number one at the weekend box office in the United Kingdom during 2016.

Films

Week Weekend End Date Film Total weekend gross
(Pound sterling) 		Weekend openings in the Top 10 Reference(s)
1 3 January 2016 Star Wars: The Force Awakens [a] £10,304,562 Joy (#3), The Danish Girl (#4) [1]
2 10 January 2016 £6,001,948 The Hateful Eight (#2) [2]
3 17 January 2016 The Revenant £5,235,851 Creed (#3), Room (#7) [3]
4 24 January 2016 £3,856,489 Ride Along 2 (#2), The Big Short (#4), The 5th Wave (#9) [4]
5 31 January 2016 £2,278,262 Dirty Grandpa (#2), Spotlight (#5), Capture the Flag (#7) [5]
6 7 February 2016 Goosebumps £2,686,105 Dad's Army (#2), Point Break (#9) [6]
7 14 February 2016 Deadpool £13,729,803 Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (#2), Zoolander 2 (#3), Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (#10) [7]
8 21 February 2016 £5,694,280 How to Be Single (#3), Triple 9 (#6) [8]
9 28 February 2016 £2,987,877 Grimsby (#2), The Forest (#6) [9]
10 6 March 2016 London Has Fallen £3,229,675 Hail, Caesar! (#2), The Other Side of the Door (#6) [10]
11 13 March 2016 Kung Fu Panda 3 £4,771,131 The Divergent Series: Allegiant (#2), The Witch (#7), Anomalisa (#10) [11]
12 20 March 2016 £1,740,695 10 Cloverfield Lane (#2), The Boy (#5), High-Rise (#6), Kapoor & Sons (#10) [12]
13 27 March 2016 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice £14,621,007 Zootropolis (#2), My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (#4) [13]
14 3 April 2016 £4,661,959 Eddie the Eagle (#2) [14]
15 10 April 2016 The Huntsman: Winter's War £3,032,962 Midnight Special (#6), Hardcore Henry (#10) [15]
16 17 April 2016 The Jungle Book £9,901,921 Eye in the Sky (#3), Fan (#7), Theri (#8), Criminal (#9) [16]
17 24 April 2016 £8,895,442 Bastille Day (#3), Friend Request (#5), Miles Ahead (#10) [17]
18 1 May 2016 Captain America: Civil War £14,466,681 Demolition (#6), Son of Saul (#8) [18]
19 8 May 2016 £4,806,575 Bad Neighbours 2 (#3), Florence Foster Jenkins (#4), Robinson Crusoe (#5), 24 (#10) [19]
20 15 May 2016 £2,789,985 The Angry Birds Movie (#2), Our Kind of Traitor (#6), Everybody Wants Some!! (#7), Green Room (#10) [20]
21 22 May 2016 X-Men: Apocalypse £7,354,293 A Hologram for the King (#6), Thomas & Friends: The Great Race (#10) [21]
22 29 May 2016 £2,543,481 Alice Through the Looking Glass (#2), Money Monster (#4), Love and Friendship (#8), Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants (#10) [22]
23 5 June 2016 Warcraft: The Beginning £3,623,725 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (#2), Me Before You (#3), The Nice Guys (#6), Housefull 3 (#10) [23]
24 12 June 2016 Me Before You £1,453,859 The Boss (#7), Mother's Day (#9) [24]
25 19 June 2016 The Conjuring 2 £4,637,862 Gods of Egypt (#3) [25]
26 26 June 2016 The Secret Life of Pets £9,793,723 Independence Day: Resurgence (#2) [26]
27 3 July 2016 £4,739,295 Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (#2), Central Intelligence (#3) [27]
28 10 July 2016 £3,624,751 The Legend of Tarzan (#2), Now You See Me 2 (#3), Sultan (#6), The Neon Demon (#9) [28]
29 17 July 2016 Ghostbusters £4,388,944 Ice Age: Collision Course (#2), Dirty Dancing (#6) [29]
30 24 July 2016 The BFG £5,288,529 Star Trek Beyond (#2), Andre Rieu's 2016 Maastricht Concert (#3) [30]
31 31 July 2016 Finding Dory £8,122,075 Jason Bourne (#2), Dishoom (#10) [31]
32 7 August 2016 Suicide Squad £11,252,225 [32]
33 14 August 2016 £4,241,598 Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (#5), Pete's Dragon (#6), Nerve (#7), The Shallows (#8) [33]
34 21 August 2016 Finding Dory £2,868,459 David Brent: Life on the Road (#3), Lights Out (#6), Swallows and Amazons (#8), Nine Lives (#9) [34]
35 28 August 2016 £1,932,155 Bad Moms (#2), War Dogs (#4), The Purge: Election Year (#5), Mechanic: Resurrection (#10) [35]
36 4 September 2016 Sausage Party £2,690,156 Brotherhood (#2), Café Society (#9) [36]
37 11 September 2016 £1,219,972 Ben-Hur (#2), Don't Breathe (#3), Kubo and the Two Strings (#5), Hell Or High Water (#7) [37]
38 18 September 2016 Bridget Jones's Baby £8,013,318 Blair Witch (#2), The Beatles: Eight Days a Week (#3), The Infiltrator (#9) [38]
39 25 September 2016 £6,453,799 The Magnificent Seven (#2), The Girl with All the Gifts (#5) [39]
40 2 October 2016 £4,807,165 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (#2), Deepwater Horizon, (#3) Supersonic (#5), M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story (#10) [40]
41 9 October 2016 The Girl on the Train £6,957,945 War on Everyone (#7), Tristan Und Isolde – Met Opera (#8) [41]
42 16 October 2016 £3,412,472 Inferno (#2), Storks (#3), Miss Saigon: 25th Anniversary Performance (#4), American Honey (#10) [42]
43 23 October 2016 Trolls £5,440,878 Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (#2), Ouija: Origin of Evil (#6), I, Daniel Blake (#9), Keeping Up with the Joneses (#10) [43]
44 30 October 2016 Doctor Strange £9,288,898 Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (#8) [44]
45 6 November 2016 £3,445,203 The Accountant (#3), A Street Cat Named Bob (#4), Nocturnal Animals (#5), The Light Between Oceans (#6) [45]
46 13 November 2016 Arrival £2,924,059 [46]
47 20 November 2016 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them £15,333,146 André Rieu:Christmas with André (#4) [47]
48 27 November 2016 £8,892,489 A United Kingdom (#6), Dear Zindagi (#9), Paterson (#10) [48]
49 4 December 2016 £4,494,727 Moana (#2), Sully: Miracle on the Hudson (#3), Pitbull: Tough Women (#5), The Edge of Seventeen (#9), Bleed for This (#10) [49]
50 11 December 2016 £2,734,960 Office Christmas Party (#4), Snowden (#8), Befikre (#10) [50]
51 18 December 2016 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story £17,305,011 The Nutcracker - Bolshoi Ballet (#7) [51]
52 25 December 2016 £5,634,115 Passengers (#2), Ballerina (#8), Dangal (#9) [52]
53 1 January 2017 £5,959,299 Why Him? (#2), Monster Trucks (#4), Collateral Beauty (#7) [53]

Notes

  1. ^ Opened in 2015

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