Monsters hold off Clooney

Monsters, Inc has taken more than £20m at UK box office

Computer-animated film Monsters, Inc has held onto the top spot in the UK and Ireland box office charts, but only after a close battle with Ocean's 11.

The Disney/Pixar adventure took in £5.7m at 504 screens across the country over the weekend to bring its total to £20.7m after two weeks on release.

Crime movie Ocean's 11, featuring a galaxy of stars, including Julia Roberts and George Clooney, brought in more than £5m, although its total was boosted by previews last week.

The UK top ten

1. Monsters, Inc

2. Ocean's 11

3. The Lord of the Rings

4. Gosford Park

5. Shallow Hal

6. From Hell

7. Vanilla Sky

8. Harry Potter

9. Iris

10. Training Day

The Warner Brothers film, shown in 433 sites, averaged £11,767 per screen, more than Monsters, Inc.

Both movies were well clear of the third placed film The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, which pulled in £968,387 in its ninth week of release.

The Peter Jackson feature has taken more than £57m and the producers will be hoping that the haul of 13 Oscar nominations will keep trade busy over the next month.

The Will Smith movie Ali, featuring the life story of boxing legend Muhammad Ali, had a disappointing opening in limited release around the country.

Julia Roberts stars in Ocean's 11

It took £125,573 at 17 cinemas, but its screen average was £7,387, well behind Monsters, Inc and Ocean's 11.

There was mixed fortunes for the smaller movies nominated for Academy Awards.

Iris, a BBC film based on the life of writer Iris Murdoch, was up 65% on last week.

Three of the movie's stars, Dame Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent and Kate Winslet, are up for Oscars.

It has now taken £2.2m after five weeks.

Gosford Park, which netted seven nominations, saw a slight fall in trade.

Gosford Park features great British talent like Maggie Smith

The part-Lottery funded movie took £742,814 at 172 screens, a drop of 19% on the previous week.

The Robert Altman movie has now taken more than £4m.

Black Hawk Down, which earned British director Ridley Scott an Oscar nomination, was the week's biggest loser.

The expensively filmed war movie lost 63% of its trade on last week, and it has already dropped out of the top 10, with a five-week total of more than £5.5m.