'The Descent' ascends box office mountain

Neil Marshall's horror film goes straight in at number three, while little else changes on the London chart.

Jul 12 2005

In a week when going to the cinema was perhaps the last thing on Londoners' minds, the box office was pretty stagnant from Friday to Sunday, with tense horror 'The Descent' the only new entry.

Neil Marshall's critically acclaimed follow-up to 'Dog Soldiers' went straight in at number three, grossing £41,454 on just 13 screens and proving that there's life in the British horror industry yet.

'War of the Worlds' and 'Batman Begins' predictably remained at numbers one and two (the former grossing more than double the latter), while 'Mr & Mrs Smith', 'Kung Fu Hustle' and 'Sin City' all fell a place to four, five and six respectively.

Further down the chart, foreign dog-com 'Bombón el Perro' dug its claws in at number seven, while Israeli thriller 'Walk on Water' surprisingly climbed from ten to eight.

A drop from six to nine suggests that 'Revenge of the Sith' may soon go the way of the dodo, while former Time Out film of the week, 'The Consequences of Love', continues to punch way above its weight, dropping from nine to ten after an amazing seven-week run on the chart.

Next week, expect kiddie-com 'Madagascar' and crude-com 'The Wedding Crashers' to both make their marks at the top.