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.
The only new entry in the top 10 was Ang Lee’s erotic tale of espionage and twisted attraction, Lust, Caution, which opened in 10th spot with a haul of £240,000. It centres on a young woman who attempts to ensnare a Chinese collaborator in Japanese-occupied Shanghai.
