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'Harry Potter' retains box office lead

Published Tuesday, Aug 4 2009, 12:58 BST | By Simon Reynolds
'Harry Potter' retains box office lead
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince has topped the UK box office for the third consecutive week.

The sixth instalment in the wizard series pulls in £2.9 million to beat new releases G-Force and The Taking Of Pelham 123 to the chart summit. Half-Blood Prince has now taken more than £40 million since its UK release last month.

The Proposal and Ice Age 3 complete the top five, while Will Ferrell's Land Of The Lost bows at a disappointing six.

This week's chart also sees Audrey Tautou's fashion biopic Coco Before Chanel and Bollywood movie Love Aaj Kal enter at numbers nine and ten respectively.

The UK box office top ten in full:

1. (1) Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince - £2,917,786
2. (-) G-Force - £2,478,524
3. (-) The Taking Of Pelham 123 - £1,784,719
4. (2) The Proposal - £1,489,268
5. (3) Ice Age 3: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs - £1,143,211
6. (-) Land Of The Lost - £642,553
7. (4) Brüno - £612,577
8. (5) The Hangover - £517,895
9. (-) Coco Before Chanel - £423,268
10. (-) Love Aaj Kal - £405,673

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