 Steve Martin plays a father of 12 in Cheaper By The Dozen |
Steve Martin's Cheaper By The Dozen has gone straight to the top of the UK box office chart, narrowly beating Eddie Murphy's comedy The Haunted Mansion. Martin's film took �1.82m between Friday and Sunday, compared to the �1.67m made by Murphy's feature.
Last week's No 1, Jack Black's School Of Rock, slipped to third place, while Jack Nicholson's Oscar-nominated film Something's Gotta Give fell to fourth.
Martin is also at No 5 in children's film Looney Tunes: Back in Action.
The weekend saw the release of a number of family-oriented films in a bid to cash in on the lucrative half term audience.
 | UK and Ireland box office 1. Cheaper By The Dozen 2. The Haunted Mansion 3. School Of Rock 4. Something's Gotta Give 5. Looney Tunes: Back In Action Source: Screen International |
However, acclaimed movies Big Fish, Lost In Translation and Lord of the Rings: Return of the King all slipped down the Top 10, before their heavy showing at this weekend's BAFTA film awards. So did comedy spoof Scary Movie 3 and Tom Cruise's The Last Samurai, now at ninth and tenth place respectively.
The only other new entry is British fantasy Tooth, which entered at no 13 having made �209,000 from 322 screens.
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