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Edge of Darkness

Edge of Darkness
2010

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Starring

Mel Gibson · Danny Huston · Ray Winstone · Bojana Novakovic · Shawn RobertsPeter Hermann

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Box Office Quickview

UK box office

  • Debut box office: 29th Jan '10
  • Debut position: 3
  • Highest position: 3
  • Debut gross: £1.2 Million
  • Total chart weeks: 3

US box office

  • Box Office debut: 29th Jan '10
  • Debut position: 2
  • Highest position: 2
  • Debut gross: $17.2 Million
  • Total chart weeks: 5

Chart position history

UK box office

29 Jan, 2010
3
5 Feb, 2010
6
12 Feb, 2010
13

US box office

29 Jan, 2010
2
12 Feb, 2010
8
19 Feb, 2010
10
26 Feb, 2010
14

Global box office

Total grosses

UK total gross
United Kingdom Flag  £3.3 Million
US total gross
United States Flag  $43.3 Million
Global total gross
Global Flag  $0

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News from around the web
Joe Don Baker, tough-guy actor from Walking Tall and Bond films, dies aged 89  The Guardian Thu, 15th May 2025

Edge Of Darkness Review  empireonline.com Wed, 27th January 2010

The Mel Gibson movie Robert De Niro quit a week into filming  Far Out Magazine Tue, 18th February 2025

'Edge of Darkness' Not Worth Seeing  The Atlantic Mon, 1st February 2010

Comfort Classic: Edge of Darkness  Royal Television Society Wed, 17th November 2021

‘My Sunshine’ Review: Hiroshi Okuyama’s Lilting, Lovely Coming-of-Ager Skates at the Edge of Darkness  IndieWire Wed, 17th September 2025

A weekly Rundown of the UK box office chart headlines over the last 30 years.

A year ago (2019) -

Making its debut at the top was How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World starring Gerard Butler and Cate Blanchett and directed by Dean DeBlois.

The longerst run on the box office and the top total grossing film was Bohemian Rhapsody which had taken £52.5 Million over 15 weeks of release.

Five years ago (2015) -

Also making its debut at the top was Big Hero 6 starring Scott Adsit and Ryan Potter and directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams.

The longerst run on the box office and the top total grossing film was Paddington which had taken £35.5 Million over 10 weeks of release.

Ten years ago (2010) -

The number one film was Avatar which had been at the top for 6 weeks and with a total gross of £65.1 Million it was also the top total grossing film.

The top new film of the week was Edge Of Darkness directed by Martin Campbell and starring Mel Gibson and Danny Huston which entered the box office at number 3.

The film with the longest run was St. Trinian's 2: The Legend Of Frittons Gold which had been on the box office for 7 weeks.

Fifteen years ago (2005) -

Making its debut at the top was Meet The Fockers starring Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller and directed by Jay Roach.

The longerst run on the box office and the top total grossing film was The Incredibles which had taken £31.9 Million over 11 weeks of release.

Twenty years ago (2000) -

Making its debut at the top was Double Jeopardy starring Tommy Lee Jones and Ashley Judd and directed by Bruce Beresford.

The film with the longest run was East Is East which had been on the box office for 13 weeks.

The top total grossing film of the week was The World Is Not Enough which had taken £27.8 Million after 10 weeks of release.

Twenty five years ago (1995) -

The number one film was Interview With The Vampire which had been at the top for 2 weeks.

The top new film of the week was Only You starring Marisa Tomei and Robert Downey Jr. which entered the box office at number 2.

The longerst run on the box office and the top total grossing film was The Lion King which had taken £23.2 Million over 17 weeks of release.

Thirty years ago (1990) -

The number one film was Black Rain which had been at the top for 2 weeks.

The top new film of the week was Lock Up starring Sylvester Stallone and Donald Sutherland which entered the box office at number 2.

The longerst run on the box office and the top total grossing film was Shirley Valentine which had taken £11.7 Million over 15 weeks of release.

All change at the top this week as Disney take over with their animated blockbuster Big Hero 6 making it's debut.

Like it's predecessor from the Mouse House Big Hero 6 makes it's debut at the top of the box office, and like Frozen which debuted with £4.7 million Big Hero 6 takes takes £4.2.

The release is just before the Uk school half term holiday which will see a massive boost in it's takings, and although it will do well it wont do as well as the juggernaut that has been Frozen.

Falling from the top spot this week is American Sniper which is this week at 3 and a total gross just shy of £10 million.

Making it's debut at 2, and only why of the top spot by £50,000, is Kingsman The Secret Service.

Other new films this week are: Inherent Vice at 9 and Les Contes Dhoffmann Met Opera 2015 at 10.

Historical Charts

A year ago - The Wolf of Wall Street was holding onto the top spot for another week while the highest new film was That Awkward Moment which came in at 3.

Five years ago - There was still no move for Avatar as it held onto the top spot while the highest new film was Mel Gibsons try at a comeback movie in Edge of Darkness at 3.

Ten years ago - Meet The Fockers was the highest new film which debuted at the top of the box office knocking Closer down to the runner up spot.

Fifteen years ago - Double Jeopardy made it's debut at the top of the chart knocking Angelas Ashes down to the number 2 spot.

Having already done big business in the US and currently standing as the 104th all time grossing film in the world Tangled this week tops the UK box office chart.

The new traditional film, as in hand drawn rather than CGI (although computers were used in the production) is the story of Rapunzel, although I think this Rapunzel is a little less the princess in the tower type. Over the weekend is tool a respectable £5,106,612.

Falling to number 2 this week after 3 weeks on top is The King's Speech, a weekend gross of £ 3,634,265 takes it's total to £24,905,378. With many awards in the bag and many more to come expect this to hang around for a while and gross a lot more.

Also in award contention is the number 3 film Black Swan, Natalie Portman is picking up actress awards left right and center and its gross reflects this with £2,566,346 last weekend and £7,305,659 in total.

Jason Statham makes a debut at 4 this week with The Mechanic taking £921,554 and The Dilemma is at 5 taking £669,368 expanding its gross to £2,292,011. This weeks box office is quite a bit up on last years where Avatar was still at the top but slowing down and Mel Gibson was the highest new entry with Edge of Darkness.