'Cloverfield' bags UK top spot

JJ Abrams' monster movie Cloverfield has landed straight in at number one in the UK box office chart.

The movie took twice as much as its nearest rival Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, which had to settle for the number two slot.

There were other new entries for Over Her Dead Body, Penelope and children's action adventure movie Underdog.

The top ten in full:

1. (-) Cloverfield - £3,485,956
2. (1) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - £1,702,252
3. (-) Over Her Dead Body - £995,690
4. (-) Penelope - £769,840
5. (4) No Country for Old Men - £712,346
6. (3) P.S. I Love You - £536,082
7. (7) Alvin And The Chipmunks - £467,620
8. (5) St. Trinian's - £335,081
9. (-) Underdog - £330,914
10. (2) Alien vs Predator: Requiem - £312,274