For the fourth weekend in a row, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them has topped the UK box office.
Either way, Fantastic Beasts looks a dead cert to overtake the lowest-grossing Harry Potter film, 2004’s The Prisoner of Azkaban (£46.1m).
Landing at fourth place in the chart, Office Christmas Party begins with a decent £1.20m, including previews of £288,000.
Snowden is the latest biopic of a controversial contemporary figure to disappoint at the box office, following The Fifth Estate (about Julian Assange) and The Program (Lance Armstrong).