House Bunny claims UK box office top spot

Fred Wolf's new comedy The House Bunny has bagged the number one slot on the UK and Ireland box office chart.

Starring Anna Faris as a former Playboy Bunny who is ejected from Hugh Hefner's mansion after her 27th birthday - the movie boasted earnings of £894,198 on its first weekend of release.

The Happy Madison Productions film ousted Keifer Sutherland's latest chiller Mirrors from the top spot, which pulled in £834,092.

Simon Pegg's comedy How To Lose Friends And Alienate People - based on the memoirs of British journalist Toby Young - slipped down to third place after just one week at the top.

Liam Neeson's action movie Taken also fell back to fourth place, while Ben Stiller's spoof war movie Tropic Thunder completed the top five.

City Of Ember made its debut at number six, while Abba musical Mamma Mia! was nudged to seventh, notching up 14 weeks in the top ten.

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