TRANSFORMERS HAS A SECOND WEEK AT NUMBER ONE

It may have been the hottest weekend of the year but that hasn’t stopped those robots in disguise keeping a firm grip on the number one spot as Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen has taken £16.5m after just two weeks.  Bachelor party comedy The Hangover is also hanging on in 2nd place with £11.2m after 3 weeks.

BLACK AND CERA UNITE FOR YEAR ONE

Jack Black and Michael Cera come together for Harold Ramis’s biblical-era comedy Year One which opened in 3rd place this weekend.  After eating an apple from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, tribesmen Zed (Black) and Oh (Cera) are banished, embarking on an epic journey where they come upon Cain, Abel, and Abraham amongst others.  A comedy of biblical proportions!

TISSUES AT THE READY FOR MY SISTER’S KEEPER

Based on the best-selling novel by Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper opened in 4th place this weekend.  From The Notebook director Nick Cassavetes, the story is based on young Anna Fitzgerald (Abigail Breslin) who seeks medical emancipation from her parents (Cameron Diaz and Jason Patric) who rely on her to help their leukaemia-stricken daughter.

Other releases of the week include the anime adaptation Blood: The Last Vampire , which follows a demon-hunting vampire in post-WWII Japan; the Bollywood film New York about three close friends in a post 9/11 New York and Sunshine Cleaning starring Amy Adams, Emily Blunt and Alan Arkin, and about two sisters who start up a crime scene clean-up business.