A #2 album and a #9 movie the same week, not bad at all.


21 dealt the right cards to top UK box office
Tuesday, 15 Apr 2008 18:15
21 debuts at top of UK box office charts

Gambling film 21 has had a lucky stint at the blackjack table after debuting at the top of the UK box office charts.

Starring Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth and British actor Jim Sturgess, 21 tells of an MIT maths whiz recruited to crack the shady world of Las Vegas blackjack.

Having spent two weeks atop the US box office charts, the Robert Luketic film - based on a true story - has grabbed the number one spot in UK and Ireland, with £1.6 million in ticket receipts after its first three days on release.

Last week's number one, romantic comedy 27 Dresses, falls to third while the nostalgic Son of Rambow holds on to second.

The next-highest new entry was George Clooney's new sports comedy-drama Leatherheads, which followed its underwhelming US performance by opening in sixth in the UK.

Martin Scorsese's Shine A Light, a documentary based around two Rolling Stones concerts, enters in ninth, while medical drama Pathology - featuring Heroes star Milo Ventimiglia - rounds off the top ten.

The top ten films at the UK box office are: (last week's position)

1 21 - £1,648,518 (-)
2 Son of Rambow - £749,152 (2)
3 27 Dresses - £688,130 (1)
4 The Spiderwick Chronicles - £676,278 (5)
5 Step Up 2 the Streets - £661,677 (3)
6 Leatherheads - £474,419 (-)
7 Horton Hears a Who! - £431,387 (6)
8 Never Back Down - £417,608 (4)
9 Shine A Light - £337,804 (-)
10 Pathology - £313,648 (-)

http://www.inthenews.co.uk/entertainment/music/film/21-dealt-right-cards-top-uk-...

no mean achievement for a concert movie.

in a weak moment,
i've  ordered the Japanese limited edition cd, (with Undercover).

Ade wrote on Apr 16^th, 2008 at 5:56am:


That's the one I bought too...

needs to be, for the extra money it costs 

Thats pretty good going for a concert movie to get into the top 10. Especially considering so many hardcore fans would have seen it at the premiere which was shown in 100 cinemas a week earlier.

The album sold 23,000 in the UK in the first week and reached #2 (compared to 37,000 in the US, which has 5 times the population). Had it performed half as well in the US (ie, some 60,000 sales) it would have reached #2 in the charts there as well. (The #2 US album sold 59,000, well behind Leona Lewis, whose charttopping album shifted 205,000 in one week)

I doubt either the CD or the movie will have much more staying power, though.

its not looking like i'm gonna be able to see it this week, and it seems the cinema's in the UK are stopping showing it next week