REESE WITHERSPOON - MONSTERS VS. ALIENS TAKES U.K. BOX OFFICE TOP SPOT

MONSTERS VS. ALIENS TAKES U.K. BOX OFFICE TOP SPOT

REESE WITHERSPOON's animated film MONSTERS VS. ALIENS has continued its fine form at the box office - shooting to the top of the U.K. cinema charts with weekend takings of $6.3 million (£4.3 million).
The movie, in which the Oscar winner voices a giant woman, had already grabbed the number spot in both the international and U.S. box office charts.
And now it has soared to number one in Britain - ahead of Richard Curtis' comedy The Boat That Rocked, which garnered $2.6 million (£1.8 million) in its debut week.
Nicolas Cage's sci-fi thriller Knowing, about a boy who discovers a cryptic premonition, dropped from number one to number three in the charts, with takings of $1.4 million (£968,664).
Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson's family drama Marley and Me fetched $1.2 million (£822,367) to take fourth spot, while The Haunting In Connecticut rounded out the top five with takings of $1.1 million (£753,130).