In the US: DreamWorks animation Kung Fu Panda (with the voices of Jack Black, Angelina Jolie and Jackie Chan) takes #1 with a very healthy £60m, comfortably beating Adam Sandler comedy You Don't Mess With The Zohan, where he plays a Mossad agent who becomes a New York hairdresser...
US TOP 10
(-) 1. Kung Fu Panda $60.2m
(-) 2. You Don't Mess With The Zohan $38.5m
(2) 3. Indiana Jones & The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull $22.8m
(1) 4. Sex & The City $21.2m
(3) 5. The Strangers $8.94m
(4) 6. Iron Man $7.48m
(5) 7. The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian $5.66m
(6) 8. What Happens In Vegas $3.44m
(8) 9. Baby Mama $807k
(9) 10. Made Of Honor $804k
In the UK: Sex & The City stays at #1 for its second week, which is more than Indiana Jones 4 managed (mind you, the latter has taken over £200m worldwide in under a month, so who cares)... Superhero Movie proves there's still an audience for piss-poor spoofs (people liked Scary/Epic/Date Movie enough to see this?)... poor slasher Prom Night manages a #4 debut... and Ben Affleck-directed thriller Gone Baby Gone (delayed in the UK because of the Madeline McCann case) comes in at #5, but only with £350k... Bollywood movie Sarkar Raj bows in at #8... Genghis Khan biopic Mongol limps in at #9 with a measly £185k...
UK TOP 10
(1) 1. Sex & The City £3.08m
(2) 2. Indiana Jones & The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull £2.6m
(-) 3. Superhero Movie £851k
(-) 4. Prom Night £507k
(-) 5. Gone Baby Gone £351k
(3) 6. What Happens In Vegas £290k
(4) 7. Iron Man £285k
(-) 8. Sarkar Raj £187k
(-) 9. Mongol £185k
(6) 10. Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay £111k
UK RELEASES THIS WEEK
THE HAPPENINGA family go on the run together when people mysteriously start committing suicide across the country. Thriller directed by M. Night Shyamalan, starring Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo & Ashlyn Sanchez.
THE INCREDIBLE HULKBruce Banner is on the run from the US Army while trying to find a cure for his condition -- cursed to turn into a green-skinned, super-strong giant when angered. Comic-book action starring Edward Norton, Liv Tyler, William Hurt & Tim Roth.
