Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Tops The US Weekend Box Office Chart

This time last year it was I, Robot - the movie where Will Smith chased a naughty little robot around town because that bloke from Babe jumped out of a window.

But this year the new Tim Burton-directed, Johnny Depp-starring version of Charlie And The Chocolate Factory is number one in the US weekend box office chart.

The Roald Dahl (Books) remake beat it’s competitors - including this
summer’s Fratpack comedy Wedding Crashers - to the top movie spot in
another rare week that film revenues beat 2004 year-on-year. Charlie
And The Chocolate Factory was also Johnny Depp’s (DVDs) highest-ever opening
movie, grossing even more than that pirate thing he did.

What does the rest of the US weekend box office chart look like? We’re just about to tell you, but thanks for asking.

1 - Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (Like Edward Scissorhands, but
with a chocolate factory instead of scissors and hands) $55,380,000

2 - Wedding Crashers (Like a big, soppy girly chick-flick but with a man with a busted-up nose instead of Meg Ryan) $32,225,000

3 - Fantastic Four (Like Batman, but with four idiots and no good ideas) $22,725,000

4 - War Of The Worlds (Like Independence Day, but with an even worse ending) $15,000,000

5 - Batman Begins (Like Fantastic Four, but with no idiots and some good ideas) $5,620,000

6 - Mr & Mrs Smith (Like True Lies, but with added domestic violence) $5,050,000

7 - Dark Water (Like The Ring, but with a leaky tap instead of the scary woman that crawls out of a telly) $4,409,000

8 - Herbie: Fully Loaded (Like Herbie Goes Bananas, but with more tits) $3,355,000

9 - Bewitched (Like the TV series Bewitched, but with less jokes and less drunk actors) $2,400,000

10 - Madagascar (Like What Women Want, but without Mel Gibson or women. Or a psychic romantic subplot. But with more cartoon animals) $2,100,000

[story by Stuart Heritage]