Film: The Charts

Mega-hyped and dreadfully monickered Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels makes number one, with Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer nuzzling vigorously from behind (The Avengers, meanwhile, quite rightly takes a dive). Stateside, Wesley Snipes cleans up as a black-leather wearing, Marvel Comics-derived vampire-slayer. Bizarre.

US BOX OFFICE

TITLE SCREENS WEEK'S TAKINGS ($) 1 Blade 2,322 17,073,856 2 Saving Private Ryan 2,671 10,142,045

3 There's Something

About Mary 2,186 7,690,128

4 How Stella Got Her

Groove Back 1,399 6,475,227 5 Snake Eyes 2,642 5,046,651

6 Dead Man On Campus 1,797 4,704,688 7 Ever After 1,864 4,575,973 8 Dance With Me 1,467 4,507,663 9 The Parent Trap 2,169 3,885,840 10 The Avengers 2,466 3,664,587

LONDON BOX OFFICE

TITLE SCREENS WEEK'S TAKINGS ($) 1 Lock, Stock & Two

Smoking Barrels 12 129,887 2 The Horse Whisperer 15 93,543 3 The X Files 14 76,873

4 Armageddon 12 59,329 5 The Spanish Prisoner 8 48,831

6 Dr Dolittle 5 19,974 7 Le Bossu 1 15,918 8 The Avengers 6 15,243 9 Lost In Space 4 14,298 10 The Big Lebowski 4 10,883