Depp (r) won best performance for Pirates at the MTV Movie Awards

The swashbuckling film, which also stars Keira Knightley and Orlando Bloom has taken �29.2m so far in the UK.

Romantic comedy Wedding Daze, starring Jason Biggs and Isla Fisher, made its debut at two.

Spider-Man 3 dropped down a place to third, which has now taken a total of �32.4m in its five-week UK run.

New at four was thriller Paradise Lost which features a group of American teenagers travelling around Brazil.

And in its third week the brooding fact-based thriller Zodiac, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr took fifth place.

UK AND IRELAND TOP FIVE 1. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End 2. Wedding Daze - 3. Spider-Man 3 4. Paradise Lost 5. Zodiac Source: : Screen International

The Hitcher, another new release, was at six while two places down at seven was children's fantasy adventure, Bridge to Terabithia.

Immediately behind was 28 Weeks Later at eight, with Mr Bean's Holiday down one at nine in its 10th week of release.

At 10, down from eight, was Bollywood romantic comedy Cheeni Kum, in which an unmarried Delhi woman visiting London falls for an Indian restaurant owner old enough to be her father.