This is a list of films which have placed number one at the weekend box office in the United Kingdom during 1996. Number one films †This implies the highest-grossing movie of the year. # Weekend End Date Film Total Weekend Gross Notes Ref 1 Seven £2,628,821 Seven had a record opening weekend for an independent release 2 £2,672,896 3 £2,153,223 4 £1,403,435 5 Heat £1,624,316 Heat reached number one in its second weekend of release 6 £1,352,356 7 Jumanji £2,166,563 8 £2,420,940 9 £1,352,947 10 Trainspotting £1,422,906 Trainspotting reached number one in its third week of release 11 Get Shorty £1,087,453 12 Toy Story £3,387,160 Toy Story set a record opening for an animated film beating The Lion Kings £2.5 million. It was also a record opening for March and for Buena Vista. 13 £2,430,057 14 £2,073,045 15 £1,883,603 16 12 Monkeys £1,363,967 17 £918,261 18 The Birdcage£746,965 The Birdcage reached number one in its second week of release 19 Executive Decision£592,110 20 £424,177 21 Spy Hard £663,820 22 From Dusk till Dawn £501,303 23 Up Close and Personal£542,315 24 £350,710 25 The Rock £1,422,041 26 £1,217,266 27 Mission: Impossible £4,161,780 28 £2,211,738 29 £1,159,872 30 Twister £3,044,033 31 £1,790,501 32 Independence Day † £7,005,905 Independence Day beat Jurassic Parks opening weekend record of £4,875,137 33 £3,905,792 34 £3,340,577 35 £2,038,470 36 £1,373,550 37 £968,780 38 £797,494 39 Last Man Standing £678,839 40 The Nutty Professor £2,278,236 41 £1,918,448 42 £1,288,056 43 Dragonheart £1,071,947 Dragonheart reached number one in its second week of release 44 £722,106 45 Michael Collins £1,160,575 Michael Collinss opening gross from the Republic of Ireland of £442,867 was a record 46 The First Wives Club £1,151,858 47 £915,539 48 The Long Kiss Goodnight £1,195,105 49 Jingle All the Way £943,769 50 101 Dalmatians £2,360,762 101 Dalmatians set a record for a December opening 51 £2,000,000 52 £2,200,000
Highest-grossing films Highest-grossing films for the calendar year Rank Title Distributor Gross 1. Independence Day20th Century Fox£36,867,029 2. Toy StoryBuena Vista£22,163,663 3. SevenEntertainment£19,516,175 4. Mission: ImpossibleUIP£18,619,357 5. TwisterUIP£15,004,691 6. Sense and SensibilityColumbia TriStar£13,605,627 7. BabeUIP£13,547,941 8. JumanjiColumbia TriStar£13,441,279 9. Trainspotting PolyGram£12,431,664 10. The Nutty ProfessorUIP£12,200,000
See also List of British films — British films by year References
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