Wedding comedy stays top of box office

09/04/2008 06:26

LONDON (Reuters) - Romantic comedy "27 Dresses" clung on at the top of the box office for a second week, according to Screen International on Tuesday.

The story of a perpetual bridesmaid longing for her own big day, starring Katherine Heigl of "Grey’s Anatomy" fame, took 1.03 million pounds for a 3.9 million two-week total.

"Son of Rambow," the nostalgic story of two boys in the 1980s re-enacting the exploits of Sylvester Stallone in the English countryside, came in at second place.

At three, down one, was dance-school caper "Step Up 2 The Streets," a successor to 2006’s "Step Up."

"Never Back Down" was new at four with its "Karate Kid" tale of the underdog training with the master for a big fight with the high school bully.

Down two places at five were "The Spiderwick Chronicles", the story of a New York couple and their three children moving into one of moviedom’s spookiest houses.

Dr Seuss was down from four to six with "Horton Hears a Who," the animated tale of an elephant trying to save a microscopic world on a speck of dust.

New at seven was the thriller "Awake," with Hayden Christensen as a billionaire learning more than he expected when he goes under the doctors’ knife without enough anaesthesia.

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at eight was horror movie "One Missed Call," with the ringing telephone as the chief instrument of suspense.

Down four places at nine was teen comedy "Drillbit Taylor" and down two at 10 was the story of a presidential assassination plot, with Dennis Quaid and William Hurt, "Vantage Point."

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