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Transformers: Dark of the Moon has topped the UK box office for the second consecutive weekend.

Director Michael Bay’s 3D blockbuster, starring Shia LaBeouf and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, drops more than 50% in ticket sales but stills holds off competition from Bridesmaids and Kung Fu Panda 2 to secure first place.

Kristen Wiig’s Bridesmaids increases its cinema takings by nearly £200,000, pushing its UK total up to an impressive £12 million.

The top four movies are unchanged from last week, with The Guard, which opened only in Ireland last Friday, is the highest new entry at number five.

Terrence Malick’s critically acclaimed Cannes Palme d’Or winner The Tree of Life debuts at six.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (1) Transformers: Dark of the Moon – £4,750,519
2. (2) Bridesmaids – £2,227,589
3. (3) Kung Fu Panda 2 – £900,739
4. (4) Bad Teacher – £535,626
5. (-) The Guard – £473,878
6. (-) The Tree of Life – £406,062
7. (6) The Hangover: Part II – £301,450
8. (5) Larry Crowne – £275,593
9. (8) X-Men: First Class – £230,143
10. (7) Green Lantern – £217,088

Transformers: Dark of the Moon has topped the UK box office on its first weekend on release.

Director Michael Bay’s 3D robot blockbuster, starring Shia LaBeouf and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, pulls in £10.7 million in ticket sales after opening in Brit cinemas last Wednesday.

Dark of the Moon‘s opening surpasses the debut for Transformers in 2007 (£8.7 million) and its 2009 sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (£8.4 million).

Last week’s chart leader Bridesmaids slips to number two, but still maintains a healthy second-week gross of £2 million. Kung Fu Panda 2, Bad Teacher and new release Larry Crowne – starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts – complete the top five.

Elsewhere, controversial Bollywood movie Delhi Belly opens at number nine with £155,000.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Transformers: Dark of the Moon – £10,728,503
2. (1) Bridesmaids – £2,007,171
3. (2) Kung Fu Panda 2 – £728,598
4. (4) Bad Teacher – £512,069
5. (-) Larry Crowne – £346,486
6. (5) The Hangover Part II – £301,482
7. (3) Green Lantern – £279,485
8. (6) X-Men: First Class – £215,011
9. (-) Delhi Belly – £155,211
10. (7) Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides – £148,362

A romantic comedy which features a cameo appearance from TV chef Gordon Ramsay has taken just £121 from its opening weekend.

Love’s Kitchen has been mauled by the critics on its release and currently has a score of 8% on Rotten Tomatoes and 4.6/10 on IMDb.

The film, which stars Dougray Scott as an an up-and-coming London chef alongside ex-EastEnders star Michelle Ryan, had a site average of only £24 across each of its five screens, The Guardian reports.

By contrast, the weekend’s biggest opening was Bridesmaids, which took £3.44 million, including previews of £1.03m.

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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

Green Lantern has topped the UK box office on its first weekend on release.

The 3D superhero epic, starring Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively, takes in £2.4 million to edge past family movie Kung Fu Panda 2 and claim the number one spot.

Green Lantern‘s opening falls significantly short of the Kung Fu Panda sequel’s £6 million bow and the £11 million debut for the latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie. Fellow comic book adaptation X-Men: First Class took in more than £5 million on its first weekend earlier this month, despite not having the benefit of a box office boost from the price of 3D tickets.

Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake comedy Bad Teacher charts at number three, while The Hangover Part II and X-Men round out the top five.

Elsewhere, Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu’s French comedy Potiche debuts at number nine with just over £200,000.

Kevin Macdonald’s YouTube-sourced documentary Life in a Day and Mel Gibson’s The Beaver both fail to make a dent in the top ten.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Green Lantern – £2,472,969
2. (1) Kung Fu Panda 2 – £2,277,474
3. (-) Bad Teacher – £1,958,656
4. (2) The Hangover Part II – £1,504,318
5. (3) X-Men: First Class – £1,219,141
6. (4) Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides – £917,188
7. (7) Senna – £376,286
8. (6) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules – £227,995
9. (-) Potiche – £201,588
10. (5) Honey 2 – £176,140

Kung Fu Panda 2 has debuted in first place at the UK box office.

The DreamWorks 3D animation, featuring the voices of Jack Black and Angelina Jolie, pulls in more than £6 million to hold off competition from The Hangover Part II and last week’s chart topper X-Men: First Class.

Kung Fu Panda‘s strong opening means that the last four weeks have all seen movies open to more than £5 million following Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, The Hangover Part II and X-Men: First Class.

Dance movie Honey 2 enters the chart at number five, while Formula 1 documentary Senna falls to number seven despite an increase in box office takings.

Horror remake Mother’s Day is the only other new release to chart in the top ten as it bows at number nine with a slim £94,000.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Kung Fu Panda 2 – £6,188,897
2. (2) The Hangover Part II – £2,759,847
3. (1) X-Men: First Class – £2,401,492
4. (3) Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides – £1,580,778
5. (-) Honey 2 – £520,654
6. (4) Diary of a Wimpy Kids: Rodrick Rules – £455,240
7. (6) Senna – £408,923
8. (7) Ready – £114,878
9. (-) Mother’s Day – £94,385
10. (8) Rio – £65,682

X-Men: First Class has topped the UK box office on its debut week on release.

The Marvel superhero prequel, starring James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender and January Jones, pulled in £5.4 million since its opening last Wednesday to knock The Hangover Part II from the chart summit.

X-Men: First Class‘s total, however, falls short of the £6.6 million grossed by franchise predecessor X-Men Origins: Wolverine in 2009.

The Hangover Part II has so far netted £21 million in box office receipts in the UK, putting it level with the UK takings of the first instalment after just two weeks on release.

Elsewhere, three new movies – JLS: Eye Wide Open, Senna and Ready – all perform well on limited release as they chart at five, six and seven respectively.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) X-Men: First Class – £5,438,386
2. (1) The Hangover Part II – £3,826,158
3. (2) Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides – £2,144,179
4. (3) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules – £645,196
5. (-) JLS: Eyes Wide Open – £463,914
6. (-) Senna – £375,173
7. (-) Ready – £236,868
8. (6) Rio – £94.127
9. (5) Fast & Furious 5 – £77,874
10. (4) Thor – £59,994

The James Bond film series’ 23rd instalment will be released on October 26, 2012.

Sony Pictures UK confirmed the UK cinema release date on its official Twitter account on Thursday.

Bond 23 – the working title for the project – had already been announced as debuting in the US on November 9, 2012.

Plans for Bond 23 were reportedly put on hold last year as MGM faced a financial crisis, but were revived once the company emerged from bankruptcy in November 2010.

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