

| Film | UK Distributor | Weeks on release |
Weekend Total | Total UK box-office to 5 October 2008 |
|
| 1 | How to Lose Friends & Alienate People | Paramount | 1 | £1,154,607 | £1,154,607 |
| 2 | Taken | 20th Century Fox | 2 | £1,096,324 | £3,104,042 |
| 3 | Tropic Thunder | Paramount | 3 | £987,191 | £6,765,139 |
| 4 | Mamma Mia! The Movie | Universal | 13 | £771,647 | £64,147,403 |
| 5 | Death Race | Universal | 2 | £448,059 | £1,542,384 |
| 6 | The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas | Disney | 4 | £436,194 | £2,791,967 |
| 7 | Righteous Kill | Lionsgate | 2 | £422,654 | £1,580,494 |
| 8 | Brideshead Revisited | Disney | 1 | £375,270 | £375,270 |
| 9 | Fly Me to the Moon 3D | Momentum | 1 | £311,791 | £311,791 |
| 10 | The Women | Entertainment | 4 | £265,859 | £3,704,806 |
| 11 | Disaster Movie | Momentum | 5 | £247,563 | £2,952,798 |
| 12 | Kidnap | Studio 18 | 1 | £243,309 | £243,309 |
| 13 | The Duchess | Pathé | 5 | £234,391 | £6,360,913 |
| 14 | Pineapple Express | Sony | 4 | £183,282 | £3,611,471 |
| 15 | I've Loved You So Long | Lionsgate | 2 | £149,037 | £372,684 |
| Source: Nielsen EDI | Source: Nielsen EDI | ||||