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Pegg's 'Friends' leads UK box office

Published Wednesday, Oct 8 2008, 17:02 BST | By Simon Reynolds
Pegg's 'Friends' leads UK box office
Simon Pegg's How To Lose Friends And Alienate People has debuted at number one in the UK box office chart.

Action thriller Taken holds on to second place, Tropic Thunder slips to three and Mamma Mia! continues its impressive box office run, rising to number four.

New entries Brideshead Revisited and Fly Me To The Moon bow at eight and nine respectively.

The top ten in full:

1. (-) How To Lose Friends And Alienate People - £1,154,607
2. (2) Taken - £1,096,324
3. (1) Tropic Thunder - £987,191
4. (5) Mamma Mia! - £771,647
5. (4) Death Race - £448,059
6. (7) The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas - £436,194
7. (3) Righteous Kill - £422,654
8. (-) Brideshead Revisited - £375,270
9. (-) Fly Me To The Mood - £311,791
10. (3) The Women - £265,859

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