Saturday Aug 4 6:25 PM
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," easily held on to top spot in the film charts over the weekend after setting a new British box office record last week, according to Screen International figures.
The fifth film about the boy wizard took 6.69 million pounds ($13.77 million) in its second weekend after a record opening 16.4 million for a two-week UK total of 31.4 million pounds.
New in second place was "Hairspray", a musical comedy set in the early 1960s with John Travolta and Nikki Blonsky as a high school girl who dreams of TV fame.
Third, down from second, was "Shrek the Third" while "Die Hard 4.0", the latest outing for Bruce Willis' maverick detective John McClane, was down one at four.
New at five was Bollywood romantic comedy "Partner", while coming in at six was "Firehouse Dog", the tale of how a high-flying Hollywood dog star is brought down to earth when a stunt goes wrong.
Down three at seven was "Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer", a former number one in which a group of superheroes fights to save the planet.
Also down three, at eight, was casino caper "Ocean's 13" while reversing its slide and coming back one place to ninth was the biopic of French singer Edith Piaf, "La Vie en Rose".
In tenth spot, down two places was "Moliere", a fictionalised account of the great French playwright's early career.