Smith’s Legend still the UK’s top film

The Will Smith sci-fi epic I Am Legend held the top spot at the UK box office at the weekend with an impressive £3.7m haul in its second week of release

Based on Richard Matheson’s classic 1954 novel about a post-apocalyptic world in which surviving humans have been transformed into mindless killers by a virus, Legend has also been a hit in the US and around the world.

There was little change elsewhere on the chart, with the top five films all having been previously released. The romantic comedy P.S. I Love You, starring Hilary Swank as a recent widow whose husband prepared a series of letters to be sent to her after his death, was in second spot with £1.79m in its third week. In third place was the Disney fantasy Enchanted, with £1.49m its fourth week, and the top five was rounded out by the new St Trinian’s movie, with £1.37m in its third week, and Phillip Pullman fantasy The Golden Compass, with £1.32m in its fifth week of release. Continue Reading…