'Dark Knight' storms UK box office

The Dark Knight has entered the UK box office chart at number one.

Christian Bale's superhero movie took nearly four times as much as Abba musical Mamma Mia!, which slipped to second.

Elsewhere, there were new entries for Gurinder Chadha's teen movie Angus, Thongs And Perfect Snogging at four and comedy Baby Mama at ten.

The top ten in full:

1. (-) The Dark Knight - £11,191,824
2. (1) Mamma Mia! - £2,830,207
3. (2) WALL-E - £2,049,000
4. (-) Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging - £929,246
5. (3) Hancock - £703,646
6. (4) Kung Fu Panda - £655,239
7. (6) Journey To The Centre Of The Earth - £195,967
8. (5) Meet Dave - £119,906
9. (7) The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian - £118,642
10. (-) Baby Mama - £111,945