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Iron Man has strong opening

Wed 07 May 3:50 PM

No surprises at the UK box office where Iron Man proved too strong for all-comers during its opening weekend.

The Marvel adaptation, which stars the great Robert Downey Jr and Gwyneth Paltrow, made £5.4m over the bank holiday weekend, despite the improvement in the weather.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall, the 'house of Apatow' which features Russell Brand as a sex-obsessed rock star (hope that wasn't too much of a stretch for poor Russ), slipped to second with just £1.3m, less than a quarter of iron Man's haul.

Elsewhere kid's film Nim's Island opened in third while Aussie rom-com Made Of Honour made fourth. Despite dismal reviews it took £749,000 in its opening week. Jessica Alba's The Eye was at five.

British films In Bruges, a black comedy starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleason as hitmen on the run, and Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky continued to bring in the punters. The Belgian set thriller slipped two places to seven, while Leigh's upbeat examination of a primary school teacher actually rose one place to eight.

Persepolis, the French cartoon about a girl growing up under the Islamic Revolution in Iran, was the only other new entry at ten.