"The Bank Job" tops box office

05/03/2008 06:34

LONDON (Reuters) - The story of a hushed-up London bank robbery topped the box office chart after its opening weekend, narrowly holding off basketball comedy "Semi-Pro," according to Screen International on Tuesday.

"The Bank Job," a fictionalised account of a 1971 robbery kept quiet at the time by a government gag, boasts a script by the partnership of Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais but failed to break the million-pound mark, taking only 951,013 pounds.

"Semi-Pro," with Will Ferrell and Woody Harrelson trying to revive the worst team in the league, came in at No. 2 with another relatively low take of 774,698 pounds.

Down at three was last week’s No. 1 "Jumper," with Hayden Christensen as the man who can teleport himself anywhere at any time.

New at four was "The Accidental Husband," with Uma Thurman and Colin Firth in the tale of a radio talk show host recklessly advising one of her listeners to break up with her boyfriend.

Down one place at five was "Juno" with Ellen Page as a teenager coping with pregnancy, while down four at No. 6 was comedy "Be Kind Rewind" with Jack Black and Mos Def trying to recreate famous movies with themselves as the stars.

"There Will be Blood," starring Daniel Day-Lewis as a greedy oil prospector, was unchanged at seven.

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of an elusive serial killer, "Untraceable," was new at eight while the biggest faller of the week "Rambo" was down six places at nine.

At 10, down from five, was "National Treasure: Book of Secrets," with Nicolas Cage trying to clear his ancestor of murdering Abraham Lincoln.

(Reporting by Stephen Addison)

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