Sacha Baron Cohen's latest comedy - the controversial Bruno - jumps straight in at number one, pulling in just over £5m in its opening weekend to knock last week's top film - Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs - down into second place, although the 3D animated comedy was only £250k away from retaining its position and has now grossed over £15m in just two short weeks. In third place, Michael Bay's giant robot actioner Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen moves ahead of Star Trek to become the highest grossing film of the year so far (although a certain Mr. Potter could have something to say about that). Meanwhile Todd Phillips' comedy The Hangover holds onto fourth spot for the second consecutive week (with total receipts of £16.5m), while Michael Mann's 1930's gangster epic Public Enemies drops three places to fifth.
My Sister's Keeper and Year One both fall one place apiece to sixth and seventh respectively, while Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian remains in eighth, having now spent eight weeks in the top ten. Bollywood rom-com Kambakkht Ishq drops to ninth, while - just to prove me wrong from last week, when I suggested that the U.K. top ten only had room for one Indian effort - Shorkut - The Con is On debuts in tenth.
With two new entries this week, there was no room in the chart for Sunshine Cleaning or Terminator Salvation, with the latter failing to cross the £15m mark on its U.K. release.
| Pos. | Film | Weekend Gross | Week | Total UK Gross |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bruno | £5,000,229 | 1 | £5,000,229 |
| 2 | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs | £4,750,720 | 2 | £15,421,531 |
| 3 | Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen | £1,449,282 | 4 | £23,580,163 |
| 4 | The Hangover | £1,228,918 | 5 | £16,493,961 |
| 5 | Public Enemies | £1,048,359 | 2 | £4,609,567 |
| 6 | My Sister's Keeper | £675,948 | 3 | £4,075,837 |
| 7 | Year One | £242,950 | 3 | £2,637,356 |
| 8 | Night at the Museum 2 | £106,420 | 8 | £19,475,421 |
| 9 | Kambakkht Ishq | £104,849 | 2 | £551,294 |
| 10 | Shorkut - The Con is On | £80,488 | 1 | £80,488 |
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Without doubt there will be a new name at the top of the box office come next week as Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince casts a spell over cinemagoers when it hits screens this Wednesday. The J.K. Rowling adaptation will cut heavily into Ice Age's audience and - with little competition remaining this summer - should push Transformers hard for the biggest hit of the year.
Also released this coming weekend is the sci-fi thriller Moon, which picked up the Best New British Feature Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, along with documentary Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country and crime drama The Informers, featruing an ensemble cast that includes Mickey Rourke, Billy Bob Thornton, Winona Ryder and Kim Basinger.
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