Fast & Furious 7 Topples Cinderella At UK Box Office

by Helen Earnshaw | 8 April 2015

Fast & Furious 7 has dominated the UK box office this weekend, toppling Cinderella from the top spot.

Fast & Furious 7

Fast & Furious 7 is already a #1 smash in America and is performing well worldwide... and that is no different in the UK as fan of the franchise have flocked to see the latest instalment.

The movie took over £12.7 million in the opening weekend to comfortably see off any challenges from the top spot at the box office. This is the second highest opening weekend in the UK - behind Fifty Shades of Grey.

Cinderella fell just a single place this week and has just been overtaken by Fast & Furious 7 as the second highest grossing film of the year so far. Cinderella has taken over $398 million worldwide and continues to perform well.

Home and The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water 3D were both down just a single place this week at three and four. Comedy Get Hard rounded off the top five and was also a one place faller.

Insurgent was down one place and fell out of the top five for the first time at six, while The Water Diviner was the second highest new entry at seven.

The Water Diviner marked the feature film directorial debut for Russell Crowe, who also starred in the movie alongside Olga Kurylenko and Jai Courtney.

While We're Young marked the return of Noah Baumbach to the director's chair for the first time since Frances Ha, and the movie was new in at eight.

Blade Runner: The Final Cut was the fourth and final new entry inside the top ten at nine, while The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel was down at ten.

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has been a big hit so far this year, but was this week's biggest faller as it dropped four places from last week's number six.