4:47 AM - Titanic 3D Hit the Top of UK Box Office Chart
News from BBC. The 3D version of Titanic, starring Kate Winslet
and Leonardo DiCaprio, has entered the UK and Ireland box office
chart in pole position.
James Cameron's film, which won 11 Oscars after its original
release in 1997, took £2.8m.
Titanic's renewed box office success comes ahead of the
maritime disaster's 100th anniversary on 15 April.
Meanwhile, new figures show British films have driven the UK
box office in the first three months of 2012.
Releases including The Woman Black starring Daniel Radcliffe
lead the cinema chart of the year so far.
The ghost tale leads the tally with £21.1m in box
office returns, followed by War Horse - adapted from the Michael
Morpurgo novel and stage play - and The Exotic Marigold Hotel,
starring Dame Judi Dench, Tom Wilkinson and Dev Patel.
In the first three months of last year, British Oscar-winner
The King's Speech led the UK box office, while Hollywood
productions Tangled and Black Swan were in second and third places.
The Film Distributors Association said that the UK remains
the world's third largest cinema-going market, with 40 million
admissions to screens around the country so far this year.
In this week's box office chart, Cameron's nautical
disaster-romance relegated dystopian drama The Hunger Games into
second spot, while Mirror Mirror was a new entry at three.
Both films took well in excess of £2m, while animation
The Pirates in fourth place also broke the barrier.
Other new entries in the rundown were The Cold Light of Day
at seven and Housefull 2, just making the top 10.
Titanic 3D failed to capture the top slot in the US box
office, where The Hunger Games held sway, breaking the $300m
(£189m) barrier for total takings to date.
Cameron's epic landed in third place with takings of $17.4m
(£10.9m) over the weekend, or $25.7m (£16m) including
early screenings.
UK weekly Box Office:
1 Titanic 3D - £2.8m
2 The Hunger Games - £2.39m
3 Mirror Mirror - £2.38m
4 The Pirates - £2.1m
5 Wrath of The Titans - £1.3m
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