BOX OFFICE

UK films

THIS LAST WEEKS GROSS

WEEK WEEK IN CHART TO 31 OCT

1 (6) The Blair Witch Project (15) 2 pounds 5,875,318

The movie - and the bobble hat - of the year

2 (2) Tarzan (U) 4 pounds 2,989,584

Me high-quality animation. You?

3 (1) American Pie (15) 4 pounds 1,050,266

High-school cookery classes. Not

4 (-) Deep Blue Sea (15) 3 pounds 875,255

Something fishy this way comes

5 (3) Bowfinger (12) 2 pounds 622,911

Martin and Murphy meet: sublimely funny

6 (-) The Runaway Bride (PG) 4 pounds 508,412

Who's a pretty woman, then?

7 (4) John Carpenter's Vampires (18) New pounds 346,023

Hallowe'en it isn't, unfortunately

8 (5) Mad Cows (15) (12) New pounds 140,202

They said it first: Lumley and Friel do Kathy Lette

9 (6) Big Daddy (12) 5 pounds 136,690

Adam Sandler learns how to micturate standing up

10 (8) The Haunting (12) 6 pounds 106,644

A paler-than-usual Catherine Zeta Jones

US films

THIS LAST WEEKS GROSS

WEEK WEEK IN CHART TO 31 OCT

1 (-) House on Haunted Hill New $15,946,032

Ten thousand dollars for staying there one night ...

2 (1) The Best Man 2 $6,281,690 Spike Lee's brother Malcolm directs

3 (2) Double Jeopardy 6 $5,405,037

Explicit violence from Pitt and Norton

4 (6) American Beauty 9 $63,779,747

The new Scorsese: see feature, page 1

5 (-) Music of the Heart New $3,653,281

Wes Craven leaves Elm Street to make this weepie. Really

6 (4) Bringing Out the Dead 2 $3,384,042

Nicolas Cage drives Scorsese's ambulance

7 (3) Fight Club 3 $3,296,137

Brad looks great with his face mashed

8 (10) The Sixth Sense 13 $3,200,961

See Gilbert Adair, above

9 (5) The Story of Us 3 $2,522,288

Michelle Pfeiffer and Bruce Willis are an ordinary couple

10 (9) Three Kings 5 $2,522,288

Clooney goes to the Gulf War