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1 Star Wars: Episode One - The Screenplay Century pounds 15.99
May the bores be with you
2 The Naked Chef Jamie Oliver/M Joseph pounds 18.99
Mmmm, it's really pukka
3 Score! Jilly Cooper/Bantam pounds 16.99
Rumpy-pumpy in the world of classical music
4 The Planets David McNab & James Jounger/BBC pounds 19.99
The eternal appeal of stargazing
5 Ancient Wisdom ... Dalai Lama/Little Brown pounds 16.99
What the world needs now is love sweet love
6 Star Wars: Episode One Dorling Kindersley pounds 12.99
Incredible cross-sections
7 East Of The Mountains David Guterson/Bloomsbury pounds 15.99
Would-be suicide redeemed by the natural world
8 Pretty Boy Roy Shaw/Blake Publishing pounds 14.99
You don't want to meet him in a dark alley
9 Star Wars Visual Dictionary David Reynolds/Dorling Kindersley pounds 12.99
What's it for, exactly?
10 The Guv'nor Lenny McLean & Peter Gerrard/Blake pounds 14.99
Bad lad doing good on sales
Paperbacks
1 Amsterdam Ian McEwan/Vintage pounds 6.99
Friends of dead woman negotiate moral problems
3 Tara Road Maeve Binchy/Orion pounds 6.99
House swap leads to romantic tangles
3 About A Boy Nick Hornby/Indigo pounds 6.99
Feckless male makes friends with fatherless lad
4 Inversions Iain Banks/Orbit pounds 6.99
Fantasy story of entwined lives
5 The Last Continent Terry Pratchett/Corgi pounds 5.99
Wizards find themselves Down Under in Discworld
6 Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernieres/Vintage pounds 6.99
It's good, but it's not that good
7 Ralph's Party Lisa Jewell/Penguin pounds 5.99
Inhabitants of London house mix and match
8 Internet: The Rough Guide Angus Kennedy/Rough Guides pounds 5.99
For the armchair tourist
9 Stalingrad Anthony Beevor/Penguin pounds 12.99
Grim modern warfare drama
10 Enduring Love Ian McEwan/Vintage pounds 6.99
Erotomania follows ballooning incident
UK Films
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Don't they make a lovely couple?
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More life lessons for dull American teenagers
3 (-) My Favourite Martian (PG) New pounds 242,558
Bad 1960s sit-com becomes a worse 1990s film
4 (3) I Still Know What You ... (18) 4 pounds 2,329,593
Any guesses what the next sequel will be called?
5 (-) The King And I (U) New pounds 135,385
Rogers & Hammerstein meet Disney
6 (5) The Waterboy (12) 5 pounds 3,054,864
Dire Adam Sandler no-brainer
7 (9) The Rugrats Movie (U) 10 pounds 12,342,329
Animation with the nasty suburban toddlers
8 (4) Forces Of Nature (12) 4 pounds 2,174,230
Sandra Bullock distracts Ben Affleck's husband-to-be
9 (8) A Simple Plan (15) 2 pounds 294,058
Taut thriller from the director of 'The Evil Dead'
10 (7) The Corruptor (18) 2 pounds 305,945
Chow Yun Fat in an English-language action movie
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See for yourself on 16 June
2 (-) Notting Hill New $27,689,760
The biggest ever opening weekend gross for a British film
3 (2) The Mummy 4 $27,699,760
'The adventure is reborn'. Apparently. UK release: 25 June
4 (3) Entrapment 5 $69,600,581
Connery and Zeta Jones's adventure. UK release: 11 June
5 (-) The Thirteenth Floor New $4,278,452
Virtual reality thriller from the makers of 'Godzilla'
6 (4) The Matrix 9 $154,764,576
Sci-fi effects with Keanu Reeves UK release: 18 June
7 (6) A Midsummer Night's Dream 3 $11,387,966
All-star cast in turn-of-the-century Tuscany
8 (7) Never Been Kissed 8 $48,980,173
Drew Barrymore goes back to school with bad hair
9 (8) Black Mask 3 $9,484,564
Hong Kong action that went straight to video in UK
10 (5) The Love Letter 2 $5,111,905
Dull romantic comedy. No UK release planned
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6 (2) Millennium Backstreet Boys
7 (-) The Capitol & Reprise Years Dean Martin
8 (5) You've Come A Long Way, Baby Fatboy Slim
9 (7) Talk On Corners The Corrs
10 (18) My Love Is Your Love Whitney Houston
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