Fantasy comedy Night at the Museum has knocked animated penguin movie Happy Feet from the UK box office top spot.

The film, which stars Ben Stiller as a security guard facing exhibits which come to life, took almost £4m over the first weekend after Christmas.

 

Happy Feet was well beaten with takings of £1.8m, while Casino Royale hung onto third place with £1.4m in sales.

 

Body-swap comedy It's a Boy/Girl Thing is a new entry in fourth place after making £967,903.

 

Transatlantic romance The Holiday, starring Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet and Jude Law falls to fifth place, ahead of another animated animal movie, Flushed Away.

 

Time travel thriller Deja Vu is at number seven with dragon fantasy Eragon, literary adaptation Perfume and Clint Eastwood's World War II epic Flags of Our Fathers rounding out the top ten.

 

The top money-making movie is Casino Royale with a total UK gross of £49.6m seven weeks after its release.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6229045.stm

 

Ooooooooooh I really wanna see this!!!

Its fab!!!!! :D

Glad to hear it. I've had enough of "cartoon" movies!!:angry:

Same^

Night at the Museum was so funny! Ben Stiller is a great comedian.

Yeah I love this movie! So funny....:D

Glad to hear it. I've had enough of "cartoon" movies!!:angry:

 

And Penguins... :rolleyes:

 

Well, Night at the museum was sightly funny...

No wonder..excellent movie!

I thought Night at the Museum would suck, but it really surprised me.

Museum movie 'pulled in DVD row'

 

 

Major UK cinemas have been accused of withdrawing family film Night at the Museum in a row over the timing of its DVD release.

Starring Ricky Gervais and Ben Stiller, the film opened in cinemas in December and the DVD release is set for Easter.

 

Film studio Fox told industry publication Screen Daily that the short window between cinema and DVD release had led Odeon and Vue to pull the film.

 

Both chains said the film was no longer showing but refused to say why.

 

DVD release dates are a hot issue in the movie industry.

 

Cinemas in Italy and Germany have already forced studios to delay the DVD releases of a string of films.

 

According to Fox, cinemas said the 13-week gap between Night at the Museum's big and small screen debuts was too short.

 

Fox executive vice-president Christian Grass told Screen Daily: "I feel this is a real tempest in a teacup in terms of exhibitor-distributor relations.

 

"But the real loser is the consumer. The exhibitors are removing the customer choice to see a crowd-pleasing movie on the big screen.

 

"This is a movie that played well during the holiday period and we think it only fair to be able to release the DVD at Easter."

 

A spokeswoman for Odeon told the BBC News website: "As of today, the film is no longer showing." But neither Odeon nor Vue would comment further.

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6324053.stm

What you mean I have to wait til Easter until a DVD of that film is available?

 

Did Easter come early or something because i have had a DVD copy of it (in DVD quality) for a couple weeks now :wink3: