 Clive Owen and Natalie Portman won Golden Globes for Closer |
Romantic drama Closer has narrowly beaten satire Team America to the top of the UK's weekend box office chart. Closer, a tangled love story starring Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Clive Owen and Natalie Portman, took �1.57m.
Owen and Portman have won Golden Globe awards and picked up Bafta nominations for their roles.
Team America, a Thunderbirds-style spoof by the people behind South Park, made �1.53m, according to the chart compiled by Screen International.
 | UK BOX OFFICE CHART 1. Closer - �1.57m 2. Team America - �1.53m 3. White Noise - �1.38m 4. The Aviator - �980,000 5. Million Dollar Baby - �800,000 Source: Screen International |
But if Closer's �128,432 takings from Thursday's previews were not counted, Team America would have come top. Last week's number one, supernatural thriller White Noise, moved down to third with �1.38m, followed by Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio's highly acclaimed The Aviator with �980,000.
Boxing drama Million Dollar Baby, which also won two awards at the Golden Globes, was a new entry in fifth.
But Vanity Fair, starring Reese Witherspoon with a Bollywood twist on the classic Thackeray story, could only enter at number 13, taking almost �205,000 over the weekend.
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