box-office charts

TOP 10 US

1 (1) Toy Story ($13,879,803) US

2 (-) Father of the Bride 2 ($11,134,978) US

3 (2) Goldeneye ($5,422,513) UK

4 (3) Casino ($3,800,230) US

5 (5) Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls ($3,505,322) US

6 (4) Money Train ($3,405,222) US

7 (6) The American President ($3,106,844) US

8 (9) Get Shorty ($1,057,213) US

9 (7) It Takes Two ($925,913) US

10 (10) Nick of Time ($907,355) US

TOP 10 UK

1 (1) Goldeneye (pounds 1,462,070) UK

2 (2) The Santa Clause (pounds 1,116,975) US

3 (-) The American President (pounds 506,600) US

4 (4) Murder in the First (pounds 185,835) US

5 (3) Crimson Tide (pounds 175,465) US

6 (-) Dr Jekyll and Ms Hyde (pounds 122,289) US

7 (6) Pocahontas (pounds 114,180) US

8 (7) French Kiss (pounds 47,516) US

9 (10) Braveheart (pounds 39,317) US

10 (-) In the Bleak Midwinter (pounds 37,865) UK

TOP 10 LONDON

1 (1) Goldeneye (pounds 202,465) UK

2 (-) The American President (pounds 79,668) US

3 (5) The Santa Clause (pounds 29,840) US

4 (2) Murder in the First (pounds 35,498) US

5 (3) In the Bleak Midwinter (pounds 24,430) UK

6 (-) The Brothers McMullen (pounds 20,993) US

7 (4) Crimson Tide (pounds 15,427) US

8 (7) French Kiss (pounds 13,311) US

9 (-) Angels and Insects (pounds 12,817) UK/US

10 (9) Shanghai Triad (pounds 12,760) HK/China

Charts supplied by Screen International

In America, the atrocious comedy-thriller Money Train has sparked a string of copycat murders in which subway attendants have been incinerated in their ticket-booths (when it's the stars, Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson, who really deserve to go up in smoke). Father of the Bride 2 finds Steve Martin (above, who has become a white Cosby, with bad jokes and worse dress sense) reprising his role as a put-upon father who must suppress his latent desire to sleep with his daughter. It's all disguised as a jolly farce, of course, but we know different. (All figures denote weekend box-office only.)