Battleship sinks Titanic at UK box office
Big-budget blockbuster Battleship has topped the UK box office charts with a £3.7m opening haul.
The Peter Berg epic, starring Taylor Kitsch and Rihanna, pulled in an impressive £1.5m in two days after a Wednesday opening and performed strongly over the weekend to hold the No. 1 spot.
Titanic 3D dropped to second position yet still took £1.8m over the weekend while the genre-twisting horror The Cabin In The Woods debuted in third with a creditable £1.6m.
Former chart-topper The Hunger Games dropped to fourth while Aardman's The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists rounded off the Top 5.
The Top 10 films at the UK box office are (last week's position in brackets):
1 Battleship (-)
2 Titanic 3D (1)
3 The Cabin In The Woods (-)
4 The Hunger Games (2)
5 The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists (4)
6 Mirror Mirror (3)
7 21 Jump Street (6)
8 Wrath of the Titans (5)
9 Streetdance 2 (9)
10 The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (8)
Source: Picturehouse
