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The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) has taken just £942 at the box office after opening in the UK last weekend.

Tom Six‘s controversial horror sequel, which had two minutes and 37 seconds removed in order to obtain an 18 certificate for release, amassed the total when it opened on 10 UK cinema screens last Friday (November 4), says The Guardian.

In contrast, the film’s predecessor The Human Centipede (First Sequence) debuted to £6,145 from 14 screens in August 2010.

Director Six slammed censors the British Board of Film Classification’s (BBFC) when they rejected his movie in June.

He said: “Apparently I made a horrific horror film, but shouldn’t a good horror film be horrific? My dear people it is a f**king MOVIE. It is all fictional. Not real. It is all make-belief. It is art.”

Dutch filmmaker Six recently stated that Steven Spielberg‘s Schindler’s List influenced his decision to shoot The Human Centipede II in black and white.

The Adventures of Tintin has spent its second weekend at the top of the UK box office.

Steven Spielberg‘s 3D animated movie, starring Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Daniel Craig, holds off competition from new releases In Time and Tower Heist to secure first place.

In Time, Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried‘s sci-fi thriller, opened early on Tuesday (November 1) but was not able to pull in enough ticket sales to dislodge Tintin.

Johnny English Reborn sits at number three, while Paranormal Activity 3 drops from second spot to number five.

Elsewhere, Gerard Butler’s Machine Gun Preacher is a new entry at ten.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (1) The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Uniform – £2,199,171
2. (-) In Time – £1,882,365
3. (-) Tower Heist – £1,451,029
4. (3) Johnny English Reborn – £832,068
5. (2) Paranormal Activity 3 – £800,580
6. (7) The Help – £537,633
7. (4) Contagion – £493,293
8. (8) The Ides of March – £489,240
9. (5) The Lion King 3D – £461,738
10. (-) Machine Gun Preacher – £331,578

The Adventures of Tintin has topped the UK box office on its debut week on release.

Steven Spielberg‘s 3D animated movie, starring Jamie Bell, Andy Serkis, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Daniel Craig, pulls in an impressive £6.7 million to beat Paranormal Activity 3 to the top spot.

Johnny English Reborn, Contagion and The Lion King 3D take the next three positions respectively.

Ra.One, the latest movie from Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, is the chart’s second highest new entry at number six.

The big-budget action epic lands above Emma Stone’s US hit The Help and George Clooney and Ryan Gosling’s political thriller The Ides of March.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn – £6,758,724
2. (1) Paranormal Activity 3 – £1,843,816
3. (2) Johnny English Reborn – £1,787,451
4. (3) Contagion – £1,051,348
5. (4) The Lion King 3D – £1,011,060
6. (-) Ra.One – £908,768
7. (-) The Help – £896,597
8. (-) The Ides of March – £665,387
9. (5) Real Steel – £508,604
10. (9) Dolphin Tale – £295,641

The sex scene in Twilight: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 has been cut down so the movie can be given a 12A, it has been revealed.

The British Board of Film Classification advised producers to edit the “graphic sight of Edward thrusting while he lies on top of Bella” to avoid the film being given a 15 certificate.

“This film was originally shown to the BBFC in an unfinished version,” a statement on the BBFC website says. “The BBFC advised the company that the film was likely to receive a ’15’ classification but that the requested ’12A’ certificate could be achieved by making changes to a sex scene between the Edward and Bella characters.

“In particular the BBFC suggested that [the] more graphic sight of Edward thrusting while he lies on top of Bella, and while her legs are wrapped around his torso, be removed.

“When the finished version of the film was submitted these changes had been made, with the scene having been reduced in length and with less focus on full body shots. As a result, the film was classified ’12A’.”

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have both admitted that they felt uncomfortable while shooting the Breaking Dawn sex scenes.

The BBFC had previously advised that the film contains “moderate violence and sex”.

Paranormal Activity 3 has secured the top spot at the UK box office, taking in more than £3 million on its opening weekend.

The horror sequel holds off competition from Johnny English Reborn and new release Contagion to emerge as the number one movie among UK audiences.

Paranormal Activity 3‘s total is marginally less than franchise starter Paranormal Activity, which bowed to £3,593,762 to finish runner-up to Twilight: New Moon in 2009. Sequel Paranormal Activity 2 earned £3.7 million in October 2010.

The Lion King 3D falls two places to number four, while Real Steel completes the top five.

Elsewhere, Tilda Swinton drama We Need to Talk About Kevin bows at number seven with close to £500,000 in ticket sales.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Paranormal Activity 3 – £3,405,036
2. (1) Johnny English Reborn – £2,052,062
3. (-) Contagion – £1,463,638
4. (2) The Lion King 3D – £1,356,217
5. (4) Real Steel – £842,597
6. (3) The Three Musketeers 3D – £585,506
7. (-) We Need To Talk About Kevin – £492,297
8. (5) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – £394,605
9. (7) Dolphin Tale – £364,921
10. (6) Footloose – £270,794

Johnny English Reborn has topped the UK box office for the second consecutive weekend.

Despite big new releases in the form of The Three Musketeers 3D and Hugh Jackman‘s Real Steel, both Rowan Atkinson‘s spy spoof and the re-release of The Lion King hold onto the top two spots.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy rounds out the top five, while the remake of ’80s classic Footloose trails behind at number six.

Family movie Dolphin Tale lands at number seven ahead of Woody Allen‘s latest comedy Midnight in Paris.

Elsewhere, Taylor Lautner‘s Abduction plummets sharply from last week’s fourth spot to chart outside the top ten.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (1) Johnny English Reborn – £3,072,542
2. (2) The Lion King 3D – £1,906,686
3. (-) The Three Musketeers 3D – £1,461,251
4. (-) Real Steel – £1,337,491
5. (3) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – £572,806
6. (-) Footloose – £460,271
7. (-) Dolphin Tale – £429,140
8. (6) Midnight in Paris – £396,584
9. (5) Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark – £250,542
10. (8) Drive – £178,230

Rowan Atkinson‘s Johnny English Reborn has held off competition from The Lion King 3D to top the UK box office.

The spoof espionage sequel opens with an impressive £4.9 million to overpower Disney’s re-release of its 1994 musical hit, which grossed £2.7 million.

Johnny English debuted with £3.4 million in 2003. The comedy went on to take £19 million in the UK and $129 million worldwide on its modest £35 million budget.

Elsewhere, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy slips two places after occupying the number one spot for three weeks and Taylor Lautner‘s Abduction falls to three.

New releases Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark and Midnight in Paris enter at numbers five and six respectively.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Johnny English Reborn – £4,965,000
2. (-) The Lion King 3D – £2,746,763
3. (1) Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – £1,066,742
4. (2) Abduction – £512,630
5. (-) Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark – £495,734
6. (-) Midnight in Paris – £495,709
7. (4) Crazy, Stupid, Love – £367,723
8. (8) Drive – £304,163
9. (7) The Inbetweeners – £285,264
10. (5) The Debt – £278,060

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy has topped the UK box office for the third consecutive weekend.

Gary Oldman‘s spy thriller pulls in £1 million to hold off competition from Twilight star Taylor Lautner‘s new movie Abduction to secure top spot.

Special 25th anniversary concert screenings of The Phantom of the Opera impress with more than £500,000 in ticket sales to land at number three.

Three other new releases make the top ten this week, with Helen Mirren‘s The Debt bowing at number five, Shark Night 3D at six and What’s Your Number? charting at nine.

Kirsten Dunst and Lars von Trier‘s critically acclaimed Melancholia fails to dent the top ten.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (1) Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – £1,064,901
2. (-) Abduction – £900,782
3. (-) The Phantom of the Opera – £550,955
4. (2) Crazy, Stupid, Love – £520,952
5. (-) The Debt – £417,977
6. (-) Shark Night 3D – £416,779
7. (4) The Inbetweeners – £371,785
8. (5) Drive – £365,401
9. (-) What’s Your Number? – £320,331
10. (3) Warrior – £268,410

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy has held on to its place at the top of the weekend UK box office.

Tomas Alfredson‘s spy thriller, which stars Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, John Hurt and Kathy Burke, comfortably beat the competition from Crazy, Stupid Love, which comes straight in at number two.

Warrior enters the chart at number three, while Ryan Gosling‘s new thriller Drive rounds out the top five.

The final new entry in this week’s chart was Killer Elite, starring Jason Statham, Robert De Niro and Clive Owen.

The Inbetweeners drops from second place to fourth, while fellow comedy Friends With Benefits falls from third to sixth.

The UK Box office top ten in full:
1. (1) Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – £2,104,762
2. (-) Crazy, Stupid, Love – £860,112
3. (-) Warrior – £808,410
4. (2) The Inbetweeners – £754,226
5. (-) Drive – £754,226
6. (3) Friends With Benefits – £580,641
7. (-) Killer Elite – £481,143
8. (4) Jane Eyre – £445,455
9. (6) The Smurfs – £410,817
10. (5) The Change-Up – £378,226

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy has entered the UK box office at number one.

Tomas Alfredson’s adaptation of John Le Carré’s 1974 spy novel knocks The Inbetweeners from the top of the list, where it had been for a month.

Other new entries in this week’s top ten are Jason Bateman comedy The Change-Up at five, I Don’t Know How She Does It at seven and 30 Minutes or Less at ten.

Friends With Benefits and Jane Eyre shift down one place to third and fourth respectively, while The Smurfs dips to sixth.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy – £2,814,860
2. (1) The Inbetweeners – £1,220,650
3. (2) Friends With Benefits – £936,025
4. (4) Jane Eyre – £734,071
5. (-) The Change-Up – £727,497
6. (4) The Smurfs – £585,092
7. (-) I Don’t Know How She Does It – £562,609
8. (5) Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes – £449,922
9. (6) One Day – £291,624
10. (-) 30 Minutes Or Less – £260,337