The power of IT at the UK box office was far too strong this weekend and easily remains at the top of the box office while Judy Dench stars in the highest new entry.

Warner Bros. continue to market the horror film IT to great effect as the film takes £6 million which is only a 40% drop from its debut last weekend.

This brings the movies total gross to an excellent £21.1 million from 10 days of release which is putting the film on for about £35 million total take in the UK.

Highest new film of the week is Victoria and Abdul, directed by Stephen Frears, it stars the legendary Judi Dench as Queen Victoria.

The film takes £1.8 million for the weekend which places it at number 2 on this weeks chart.

Also new this week is Mother! which makes its debut at number 3, and despite good reviews and plenty of publicity takes a quite disappointing £800,000.

American Assassin is also making its debut, it enters the box office at number 4 and The Jungle Bunch is a new entry at number 6.

For the fifth straight weekend the longest running film is Despicable Me 3, now with 12 weeks on the box office, while Dunkirk is the highest total grossing movie with £55 million.

Historical charts

A year ago - Bridget Joneses baby hit the top spot on its debut while Sausage Party fell from the top to number 4 with an all new top 3.

Five years ago - The Sweeney hit the top of the chart on its debut while Dredd fell to number 5, a heavy fall in its second weekend.

Ten years ago - Run Fatboy Run remained at the top for a second weekend while Superbad was the top new film at number 2.

Fifteen years ago - Signs hit the top on its debut while falling to number 2 after a week on top was The Bourne Identity.

Twenty years ago - Spending its third weekend at the top was The Full Monty while Air Force One was the top new film at number 2.

Twenty five years ago - Lethal Weapon 3 was the top film for a fifth weekend while the top new film Housesitter at number 2.

For the second week there was no stopping blockbuster IT as its makes a global gross of $120.3 million from 57 countries to remain on top.

The Stephen King adaptation from Warner Bros. is doing great business at the world box office and has now taken $371.3 million in total and should get to $500 million easily.

War For the Planet of The Apes opened in China this last week and did great business pushing the film back to number 2 with a weekly global gross of $63.2 million from 22 countries.

The film has been around a while now and is just shy of the half billion mark in global grosses with $433.7 million.

Highest new film of the week is American Assassin which makes its debut at number 3 this week with $21 million from 42 countries.

top total grossing movie on the top 10 this week is Spider-Man Homecoming which this week takes its total global gross to $861.2 million after a $16 million week from 44 countries.

For the second weekend IT reigned at the US box office, while the battle for highest new film went to American Assassin rather than Mother as some expected.

Grossing $60 million on its second weekend of release Warner Bros. have a true hit on their hands with IT, for a horror film, as it has been marketed, a 50% drop is fantastic.

This weekend gross takes the films total gross in the US to $218 million after 2 weekend of release, this should be enough to see the film go well over $300 million at the box office.

After much hype the Jennifer Lawrence starring Mother! could not beat American Assassin as the top new film, the former enters the chart at number 2 with $14.8 million.

Maybe this is a lesson for over hyped film as Assassin didn’t get nearly as much marketing dollars and yes outgrossed it 2 to 1 on their debuts.

Mother! did come in at number 3 with $7.5 million, although to put things into perspective IT at number 1 made more that the rest of the box office put together.

Once again Spider-Man Homecoming does the double whammy of longest running film with 11 weeks on the chart and highest total grossing movie with $330 million in US grosses to date.