The Others tops UK box office

The Others: Produced by Kidman's ex-husband Tom Cruise

Horror movie The Others, starring Nicole Kidman, has leapt straight to the number one spot at the UK box office.

The film took an impressive £2.26m in its first three days.

Starring Nicole Kidman and co-produced by her ex-husband Tom Cruise, The Others has won praise from critics as an effective thriller.

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Kidman plays Grace, a wife and mother waiting for her husband to return from the front in World War II.

Last weekend's number one, American Pie 2, has slipped to number two but the sequel to the 1999 smash hit has continued to perform strongly, taking £1.62m in its third weekend.

Low-budget

Legally Blonde , which like American Pie 2 topped the US box office, fell one place to three.

Low-budget horror flick Jeepers Creepers came in fourth.

UK box office top five

The Others

American Pie 2

Legally Blonde

Jeepers Creepers

Atlantis: The Lost Empire

Billed as the scariest movie to come out of America in 10 years, it took £708,000 in its third week in the UK charts.

There was a new entry at number seven, The Animal.

The Luke Greenfield-directed comedy, which tells the story of a man who has too many organ transplants from animals, took £345,000 over the weekend.

French-language hit Amelie slipped to 10 from eight, while another foreign-language movie, Asoka, fell from number nine to number 12.

Asoka took £104,000, despite being shown on just 57 screens.