FILM: BOX OFFICE

UK films

THIS LAST WEEKS GROSS

WEEK WEEK IN CHART TO 19 DEC

1 (1) The World is Not Enough (12) 4 pounds 19,074,089

Bond should stay on top with Christmas coming

2 (-) Inspector Gadget (U) New pounds 875,923

Human Swiss Army knife fights blundering baddies

3 (3) End of Days (18) 2 pounds 2,582,353

The world is saved from Arniegeddon

4 (2) The Sixth Sense (15) 7 pounds 18,800,903

Could this be the film of the year?

5 (4) East is East (15) 7 pounds 6,375,432

Comedy about a mixed-race family in 1970s Salford

6 (-) Anna And the King (12) New pounds 317,621

Remake of `The King and I', starring Jodie Foster

7 (-) The Iron Giant (U) New pounds 196,079

Based on `The Iron Man' by the late Ted Hughes

8 (7) Fight Club (18) (12) 6 pounds 5,235,642

Black (and blue) comedy

9 (6) Tarzan (U) 11 pounds 16,972,421

Still hanging in there ...

10 (5) Guest House Paradiso (15) 3 pounds 1,394,596

Bottom is bared on the big screen

US films

THIS LAST WEEKS GROSS

WEEK WEEK IN CHART TO 19 DEC

1 (-) Stuart Little New $15,018,233

`Little' Michael J.Fox hunts for a bird

2 (2) The Green Mile 2 $36,667,800 Adaptation of Stephen King's novel

3 (1) Toy Story 2 5 $156,354,721

Woody is toy-napped: Buzz Lightyear to the rescue!

4 (3) Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo 2 $24,343,790

Rob Schneider stars as an unlikely hero

5 (-) Bicentennial Man New $8,234,926

A robot's 200 year quest to become human

6 (-) Anna and The King New $5,223,416

1860s romance in Siam

7 (4) The World is Not Enough 5 $105,354,963

An American hit, even without Felix Leiter

8 (5) End of Days 4 $57,895,205

It's Judgement Day again for Schwarzenegger

9 (6) Sleepy Hollow 5 $85,924,145

Headless horseman from Tim Burton's stable

10 (7) The Bone Collector 7 $62,412,565

Denzel Washington goes out on a limb

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