Indiana whips SATC at UK box office

Updated 15.00 Tue Jun 03 2008

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Sex And The City has knocked Indiana Jones off the top movie spot but has failed to equal its opening box office take.

SATC, about the love lives of four New York women which ran on TV from 1998 to 2004, took £8.77 million in its opening weekend while Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull took over £12.2 million in its first three days of release.

Advance ticket sales for Sex And The City hit 160,000 across the UK and many cinemas have been laying on extra screenings

Advance ticket sales for Sex And The City hit 160,000 across the UK and many cinemas have been laying on extra screenings.

Despite mixed reviews from the critics, fans have been enthusiastic about the £30 million version of the hit TV series featuring Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis.

In third spot, down one place, was What Happens in Vegas, with Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher as a couple living with the bittersweet consequences of a quickie marriage.

Fourth, also down one, was superhero caper Iron Man, starring Robert Downey Jr and Gwyneth Paltrow, which took over £5 million, and Nim's Island with Little Miss Sunshine star Abigail Breslin was unchanged at five.

New at six was Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, picking up the wacky adventures of the cult favourites four years on as they travel to Amsterdam in search of love.

Down three at seven was Forgetting Sarah Marshall, with Russell Brand, while at eight, down from six, was the big screen version of the 1960s TV series, Speed Racer.

The comedy Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins made its debut at nine with Martin Lawrence as a big-shot TV host returning to his roots in small-town Georgia.

At ten, down one place, were the thoughts on life, love and motherhood of five Beirut women in Caramel.