UK Box Office Information 28th-30th September 2007

The top of the chart remains unchanged from last week with Run Fat Boy Run (Entertainment) holding the top spot, having taken £7.8m to date, and Atonement (Universal) in 2nd place with £8.5m. Sandler and James remain in 3rd place with I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (Universal), having taken £2.5m after two weeks in the chart, whilst Judd Apatow and buddies hold the 4th place spot with Superbad (Sony), and a box office total of £4.8m.

Scary pumpkin faces, ghosts, candy, fake blood and skeletons galore - well it must be October 31st! Not so I'm afraid but All Hallows Eve has come early in the shape of Halloween (Paramount) which opened in 5th place over the weekend, taking £621k. Positioning his film as en entirely new chapter in the Mike Myers saga (not the Austin Powers actor, but the psychopathic killer in the film), the only elements of the other films that director Rob Zombie has kept are the trademark mask and eerie music. Ultimately however, Myers is still a few sandwiches short of a picnic and is hell bent on murdering anyone who stands in his way.

George 'Gorgeous' Clooney has left the casinos of Vegas behind and taken up a role of Michael Clayton (Pathe), an elite New York attorney who is know as 'The Janitor' for clearing up his clients' mess. Taking £601k over the weekend (including previews) and opening in 6th place, the film takes place over four of the worse days of Clayton's life.

Jodie Foster has turned all vigilante on us this weekend for The Brave One (Warner Bros.) which opened in 7th place with £498k, including previews. After a brutal attack leaves radio host Erica (Foster) badly injured and her fiancee for dead, she starts prowling the streets at night looking for the men she holds responsible for his death. When the NYPD and the public get wind of her actions however, she starts to take a serious look at herself and decided whether she likes what she is becoming. Terence Howard and Naveen Andrews also star.

When you think of Seann William Scott, his role as Stiffler in the American Pie films automatically comes to mind, however for our next new entry, he plays a young man determined to stop his mother (Susan Sarandon) marrying the man who once made his life hell - his Phys Ed teacher Mr Woodcock (Entertainment), played by Billy Bob Thornton. Opening in 8th place with £483k, Mr Woodcock takes us back to the days of having to pointlessly shimmy up and down a rope and being picked last in gym class.

The last new entry into the chart is War (Lionsgate) which opened in 10th place with £207k. Starring Jet Li and Jason Statham, War is the story of an FBI Agent who seeks vengeance on a mysterious assassin known as "Rogue" who murdered his partner.

Interesting film fact of the day: This is the 9th Halloween film, the first made in 1978 by John Carpenter.

CSA 2nd October 2007