Warcraft: The Beginning Tops UK Box Office

by Helen Earnshaw | 8 June 2016

Warcraft: The Beginning has topped the UK box office - holding off the challenge from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.

Warcraft: The Beginning

Warcraft: The Beginning is based on the popular computer game of the same name and sees Duncan Jones back in the director's chair. Jones has brought us movies such as Moon and Source Code but this is the biggest film of his career to date.

The movie opened with £3.6 million over the weekend in what was a tight battle for that number one spot.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, which is the second film in the new rebooted series, and has to settle for the number two spot as it opened with £3.4 million

It was all about the new entries in the top three this week as Me Before You, which is based on the novel of the same name, opened at number three.

Author Jojo Moyes has adapted her own novel into the screenplay while Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin take on the film's central roles.

Alice Through The Looking Glass was down to places at number four while X-Men: Apocalypse slipped four spots from one to five.

The Nice Guys, which sees Shane Black in the director's chair and Russell Crowe team up with Ryan Gosling, opened at number six and was the fourth new entry inside the top ten this weekend.

Angry Birds was another four place faller at seven while The Jungle Book was down three this week at number eight.

Money Monster was this week's biggest faller as the Jodie Foster-directed film slipped five places from four this number nine. Housefull 3, the fifth and final new entry, opened at number ten.