22 Jump Street has topped the UK box office on its first weekend on release.
The comedy, starring Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill, debuted with an impressive £4.8 million opening to see off competition from Maleficent and X-Men: Days of Future Past and secure first place.
22 Jump Street‘s debut has trebled the opening of 21 Jump Street, which bowed to £1.56 million in 2012 and went on to gross over £10 million in the UK.
Tom Cruise’s Edge of Tomorrow and A Million Ways to Die in the West complete this week’s top five.
Elsewhere, the D-Day 70 Years On live cinema event is a new entry at number seven ahead of Nicole Kidman’s critically-panned Grace of Monaco (number nine).
The UK box office top ten in full is as follows:
1. (-) 22 Jump Street – £4,854,991
2. (1) Maleficent – £2,605,230
3. (2) X-Men: Days of Future Past – £1,764,749
4. (3) Edge of Tomorrow – £1,234,487
5. (4) A Million Ways to Die in the West – £480,118
6. (5) Godzilla – £475,387
7. (-) D-Day 70 Years On: Live from the Royal Albert Hall 2014 – £287,767
8. (7) Postman Pat: The Movie – £247,344
9. (-) Grace of Monaco – £238,862
10. (6) Bad Neighbours – £177,581
Source: Rentrak
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