BOX-OFFICE CHARTS

A state of stasis pervades both here and in the US, the difference being that America has already got the year's big blockbusters - Mission: Impossible, Twister, The Rock - while we're stuck with the pre-summer flotsam and jetsam. How can it be that two of our top four films star Demi Moore? Come to think of it, how can it be that Demi Moore exists? Some ask the same of Jim Carrey. In The Cable Guy (opening here next month), he is a demented cable TV salesman who makes life hell for Matthew Broderick.

(All figures denote weekend box-office only.)

TOP 10 UK

1 (1) Up Close and Personal (pounds 350,710) US

2 (2) Now and Then (pounds 228,591) US

3 (3) From Dusk Till Dawn (pounds 222,391) US

4 (4) The Juror (pounds 222,342) US

5 (9) Fargo (pounds 130,955) US

6 (4) Vampire in Brooklyn (pounds 121,614) US

7 (-) How to Make an American Quilt . (pounds 89,980) US

8 (5) Spy Hard (pounds 83,078) US

9 (7) Secrets and Lies (pounds 71,530) UK

10 (8) Muppet Treasure Island (pounds 63,440) US/UK

Charts supplied by `Screen International'

TOP 10 US

1 (-) The Cable Guy ($19,806,226) US

2 (1) The Rock ($18,513,415) US

3 (2) Mission: Impossible ($8,609,038) US

4 (3) Twister ($7,713,048) US

5 (4) Dragonheart ($4,550,475) US

6 (5) Eddie ($3,355,508) US

7 (6) The Phantom ($3,077,357) US

8 (7) Spy Hard ($1,269,048) US

9 (8) The Arrival ($1,133,711) US

10 (-) Moll Flanders ($955,606) US