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Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro’s Little Fockers has topped the UK box office over the Christmas weekend.

The comedy sequel pulls in more than £3 million to chart ahead of blockbusters The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader and Tron: Legacy. Fockers‘ opening haul is more than the £2.2 million made by Meet The Parents in 2000, but less than the £7.9 million grossed by its follow-up Meet The Fockers in January 2005.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1, which has now made more than £46 million at the UK box office, falls a place to number four. Bollywood film Tees Maar Khan opens strongly in fifth place with £319,870.

Elsewhere, The Tourist experiences a sharp fall to number seven where it charts ahead of animated movie Animals United and new release Arthur And The Great Adventure.

Christina Aguilera and Cher’s Burlesque completes the top ten.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Little Fockers – £3,035,717
2. (2) The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader – £929,958
3. (1) Tron: Legacy – £486,065
4. (3) Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 – £416,556
5. (-) Tees Maar Khan – £319,870
6. (5) Megamind – £303,861
7. (4) The Tourist – £164,836
8. (7) Animals United – £157,858
9. (-) Arthur And The Great Adventure – £83,875
10. (6) Burlesque – £81,574

Tron: Legacy has topped the UK box office on its first weekend on release.

The Disney film, a follow-up to Jeff Bridges’ 1982 cult favourite, pulled in £1.9 million in box office receipts to end the latest Narnia film’s short reign at the top of the chart.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1, now entering its second month on release, is in third place. The sequel has so far banked £44 million in the UK. The Tourist and Megamind round out the top five.

Despite the star power of Cher and Christina Aguilera, Burlesque can only manage sixth spot on its opening weekend. The musical charts ahead of two other new releases, Animals United and Fred: The Movie.

Action movie Unstoppable and comedy Due Date complete the top ten.

The UK box office top ten in full:
1. (-) Tron: Legacy – £1,970,692
2. (1) The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader – £1,231,568
3. (2) Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 – £875,898
4. (3) The Tourist – £721,397
5. (4) Megamind – £574,205
6. (-) Burlesque – £425,931
7. (-) Animals United – £307,409
8. (-) Fred: The Movie – £257,133
9. (5) Unstoppable – £158,869
10. (6) Due Date – £75,953

M. Night Shyamalan has admitted that he was unaware of how the term “bender” is used as slang in the UK.

Discussing the use of the term in The Last Airbender, Shyamalan told Metro that he did not consider changing the title.

When it was suggested that ‘some immature cinema-goers found dialogue such as, “look out he’s a bender” hilarious’, the director said: “I thought you guys used bender as a term for getting drunk, like, ‘I’m going on a bender’.

“I wasn’t aware of that term. It was just the title of the cartoon show.”

He added: “Sometimes the title gets changed for particular territories. The title of my film The Happening was changed in some countries because happening meant party.”