In Her Shoes tops UK Box Office
Showbiz Desk

LONDON—Comedy drama “In Her Shoes” has booted “Nanny McPhee” from the top of the UK box office, Screen International said on Tuesday. The movie, which follows the relationship between two sisters — one (Cameron Diaz) fun-loving and irresponsible, the other (Toni Collette) a high-powered lawyer — took 1.34 million pounds in its first weekend of release.
That was enough to edge Nanny McPhee, starring Emma Thompson as a magical governess, into second spot. “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,” the first feature-length tale about the plasticine pals, dropped to third. New in fourth place was “The Constant Gardener,” a critically acclaimed thriller starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz about a British diplomat’s wife who wants to expose large pharmaceutical companies exploiting Africans to test drugs.
Dropping one to fifth was horror film “Saw II,” a grisly tale about a serial killer called Jigsaw going about his unpleasant business, with Terry Gilliam’s latest work, “The Brothers Grimm” in sixth. Comedy thriller “Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,” featuring Robert Downey Jr and Val Kilmer, was a new entry in seventh with “The Legend of Zorro,” which reunites Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones as his wife Elena, falling to eighth. Romantic comedy “Elizabethtown,” starring Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst and Susan Sarandon, was ninth with Tim Burton’s animation comedy “Corpse Bride” making up the top 10.