UK Box Office 12th- 14th Oct 2007

Rats, they're finger lickin' good at cooking, getting up drainpipes and making it to No.1 at the Box Office. Ratatouille left the other sinking ships to reach the top spot with a rat-race winning £4.4m and the kids aren't even on holiday yet. Pixar serves up another superior dish with a touch of Gallic flavouring that will have even Jamie Oliver yelling rat.

Now to anyone who's had a busload of Japanese tourists trying to gouge their eyes out as they walk down Piccadilly in the rain umbrellas can be pretty dangerous, just ask that Russian bloke on Waterloo Bridge, so to have to fight an organisation calling themselves the Umbrella Corporation would seem a luckless task. That Milla Jovovovovich has to fend off hordes of zombies and killer crows as well means that her efforts fully deserve her entry at the Box Office, Resident Evil: Extinction residing as it does in second place taking £0.9m.

Ben Stiller is on the second week of his honeymoon in The Heartbreak Kid (£0.9m) still trying to ditch his witch of a new wife, and Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner are still trying to fight their way out of a spot of trouble in The Kingdom (£0.5m).

Heading up the rest of the weekend's new releases are two Bollywood movies Bhool Bhulaiyaa and Laaga Chunari Mein Daag in 7th and 8th. Just behind is Black Sheep's mutant mutton running riot over New Zealand like a French rugby pack (about a week late with that one) and Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig in The Invasion which doesn't so much invade the Top 10 as gently nudge it with a body-snatching £0.2m).

Interesting Film Fact of the Day: To find out how to animate the scene where the chef is wet in Ratatouille, the animators dressed someone in a chef suit and put him in a swimming pool; strangely he'd gone AWOL when it came to enacting the scene where the chef sets himself on fire making Crème brûlée.

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