Heaven's above 'Emily Rose' at BO

Just Like Heaven has reached the top of the US box office charts in its debut weekend.

The romantic comedy, which sees Mark Ruffalo fall in live with Reese Witherspoon's spirit, took the number one place from last week's The Exorcism of Emily Rose. The former took $16.5m over the weekend, whilst the latter took $15.3m.

The US top ten:
1. (-) Just Like Heaven - $16.5m
2. (1) The Exorcism of Emily Rose - $15.3m
3. (-) Lord of War - $9.2m
4. (2) The 40-Year-Old Virgin - $5.8m
5. (-) Cry_Wolf - $4.55m
6. (3) Transporter 2 - $4.03m
7. (4) The Constant Gardener - $3.7m
8. (5) Red Eye - $2.9m
9. (10) March Of The Penguins - $2.56m
10. (8) The Wedding Crashers - $2.53m