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.

Ray Winston takes us on a nostalgia trip (for those who remember) with a reimaging of the mid 70's TV series The Sweeney taking the box office crown.

Director Nick Love is the writer and director or this TV series transition which has clearly hit a note with British audiences as its opening weekend manages a low but impressive £1,545,294. Last weeks top film Dredd has a large fall to 5 this week with a weekend take of £769,381 taking it's 2 week total to £2,725,180.

The Dark Knight Rises continues to make money and is by far the top film of the year now with a UK gross of £55,769,510 having been on the charts for 9 weeks.

A year ago the spy thriller Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy debuted at the top with £2,814,860 knocking The Inbetweeners Movie down to second place.

Five years ago Run Fatboy Run was still at the top while challenger Superbad entered the chart at 2.

Ten years ago M. Night Shyamalan was still in favour at Disney and took Signs to the top of the box office knocking The Bourne Identity off.