Bridesmaids has seen off competition from Kung Fu Panda 2 and Green Lantern to top the UK box office.
The Kristen Wiig-led comedy, which also stars Rose Byrne and The IT Crowd's Chris O'Dowd, pulls in a strong £3.4 million to bag first place on its debut weekend on release.
The opening haul is £1 million more than the debut for Ryan Reynolds's DC Comics superhero movie last week. Bridesmaids had a two-day head-start having opened on Wednesday, but didn't have Green Lantern's benefit of extra revenue from 3D screens.
Three of this week's top five films are comedies, with Bad Teacher and The Hangover Part II landing at numbers four and five respectively.
Formula 1 documentary Senna continues its impressive box office run as it spends its fourth weekend in the chart. Asif Kapadia's account of sporting legend Ayrton Senna's life has now taken more than £2.5 million in UK ticket sales.
Elsewhere, the only other new movie to make a dent in the top ten is Bollywood release Double Dhamaal, starring Sanjay Dutt and Ritesh Deshmukh.
The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Bridesmaids - £3,445,395
2. (2) Kung Fu Panda 2 - £1,532,459
3. (1) Green Lantern - £1,105,089
4. (3) Bad Teacher - £1,061,551
5. (4) The Hangover Part II - £801,784
6. (5) X-Men: First Class - £709,787
7. (6) Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides - £523,494
8. (7) Senna - £264,484
9. (8) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules - £155,605
10. (-) Double Dhamaal - £117,285
Monday, 27 June 2011
Julianne Moore 'never feels confident on red carpet'
Julianne Moore has revealed that she never feels confident when walking the red carpet.
The Kids Are All Right star stated that in spite of being nominated for an Oscar four separate times, she still feels nervous when at awards shows, according to Health.
"I never feel confident!" Moore said. "I don't know that there's anybody who does. I mean, you don't look around the red carpet thinking, 'There's a lot of confident people out here'."
The 50-year-old went on to credit her genetics for her good looks.
"I have very strong hair, that's just genetics," Moore said. "And I credit my mother for keeping us out of the sun."
In the same interview, Moore confessed that she prefers to age naturally, claiming that she would never undergo plastic surgery.
In March, the actress signed on to star in the film The Seventh Son as the vengeful Mother Malkin in the first adaptation of the children's fantasy series The Spook's Apprentice.
Moore can be seen next in Crazy, Stupid, Love. opposite Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.
Watch the trailer for Crazy, Stupid, Love. below:
The Kids Are All Right star stated that in spite of being nominated for an Oscar four separate times, she still feels nervous when at awards shows, according to Health.
"I never feel confident!" Moore said. "I don't know that there's anybody who does. I mean, you don't look around the red carpet thinking, 'There's a lot of confident people out here'."
The 50-year-old went on to credit her genetics for her good looks.
"I have very strong hair, that's just genetics," Moore said. "And I credit my mother for keeping us out of the sun."
In the same interview, Moore confessed that she prefers to age naturally, claiming that she would never undergo plastic surgery.
In March, the actress signed on to star in the film The Seventh Son as the vengeful Mother Malkin in the first adaptation of the children's fantasy series The Spook's Apprentice.
Moore can be seen next in Crazy, Stupid, Love. opposite Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.
Watch the trailer for Crazy, Stupid, Love. below:
Pixar making 'Toy Story 4'
Tom Hanks has revealed that Pixar is planning to make Toy Story 4.
The Larry Crowne star, who provides the voice of cowboy Woody, said that the animation studio is currently working on a further instalment in the popular series.
"I think they are trying to do another one. The spirit afoot is to make a fourth," Hanks told radio station Magic 105.4.
"Whatever is going on at Pixar headquarters is a mystery to me. I'll wait until they blow white smoke out of the chimney or whatever it is that says there's another Toy Story coming down the pipe."
Pixar recently announced plans to release a mystery movie in 2013, although the project is said to be unrelated to any of its previous pictures.
Toy Story 3 opened in cinemas last summer and pulled in more than $1 billion at the worldwide box office. The characters will appear in front of Cars 2 in short film Toy Story Toons: Hawaiian Vacation.
The Larry Crowne star, who provides the voice of cowboy Woody, said that the animation studio is currently working on a further instalment in the popular series.
"I think they are trying to do another one. The spirit afoot is to make a fourth," Hanks told radio station Magic 105.4.
"Whatever is going on at Pixar headquarters is a mystery to me. I'll wait until they blow white smoke out of the chimney or whatever it is that says there's another Toy Story coming down the pipe."
Pixar recently announced plans to release a mystery movie in 2013, although the project is said to be unrelated to any of its previous pictures.
Toy Story 3 opened in cinemas last summer and pulled in more than $1 billion at the worldwide box office. The characters will appear in front of Cars 2 in short film Toy Story Toons: Hawaiian Vacation.
Michael Bay 'insulted by Transformers critics'
Michael Bay has stated that he finds criticism of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen to be "insulting".
The 46-year-old director took offence to the focus on his 2009 blockbuster's critical panning at a press conference for new sequel Dark of the Moon.
When asked by a journalist if he feared another Transformers flop, Bay hit back: "Your comment is a little insulting to the artists who worked on this. The movie did make a lot of money. I admit it's not one of my better films. It's by far not the worst film ever made; that's just false...The movie doesn't make $835 million (£521 million) being the worst film."
Explaining why Revenge of the Fallen may have left some underwhelmed, he added: "We had a writer's strike during movie two, so it was a tough game getting it going.
"It really wasn't fair to the writers because normally a movie like this would take eight months to write and, because of the strike, the writers had about three, so it was a complicated, rough process making that movie. On the third one we tried to get it right and really deliver and I think we did. It's the best of the three, personally, to me."
Transformers star Shia LaBeouf has noted in recent times that Revenge of the Fallen had numerous creative issues and lacked a real script.
The 46-year-old director took offence to the focus on his 2009 blockbuster's critical panning at a press conference for new sequel Dark of the Moon.
When asked by a journalist if he feared another Transformers flop, Bay hit back: "Your comment is a little insulting to the artists who worked on this. The movie did make a lot of money. I admit it's not one of my better films. It's by far not the worst film ever made; that's just false...The movie doesn't make $835 million (£521 million) being the worst film."
Explaining why Revenge of the Fallen may have left some underwhelmed, he added: "We had a writer's strike during movie two, so it was a tough game getting it going.
"It really wasn't fair to the writers because normally a movie like this would take eight months to write and, because of the strike, the writers had about three, so it was a complicated, rough process making that movie. On the third one we tried to get it right and really deliver and I think we did. It's the best of the three, personally, to me."
Transformers star Shia LaBeouf has noted in recent times that Revenge of the Fallen had numerous creative issues and lacked a real script.
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