Fantastic Four tops UK box office in debut week

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer topped the UK box office in its debut weekend, knocking casino caper Ocean's Thirteen from pole position.

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

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topped the UK box office in its debut weekend, knocking casino caper

Ocean's Thirteen

from pole position, according to Screen International on Tuesday.

The Fantastic Four

sequel, in which the superheroes have to save the planet by foiling the mysterious Silver Surfer, took 4.1 million pounds. That was a million more than

Ocean's

managed in its first week but only about a third of the last blockbuster to hit the UK,

Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End,

-- which started in some 75 more cinemas than the other two.

Pirates

was down one place at three, just below George Clooney and Brad Pitt taking revenge on Al Pacino in the latest Ocean's sequel.

New at four was motel-based horror movie

Vacancy

, with Kate Beckinsale, while down two at five was rapper Ice Cube in suburban comedy

Are We Done Yet?

, a sequel to his 2005 movie

Are We There Yet?

New at six was Bollywood romantic comedy

Jhoom Barabar Jhoom

while down three places at seven was another rom-com

Wedding Daze

.

Coming in at eight was

Tell No One

, a French thriller in which a man who lost his wife eight years ago in a murder receives an email showing her being filmed in real time.

Tamil film

Sivaji

was new at nine while down five places at 10 was

Spider-Man 3

which has taken 33.3 million pounds in its seven weeks in the UK Top 10.