Playboy comedy tops UK box office

"The House Bunny" was Britain's most popular film over the weekend, knocking the misadventures of journalist Toby Young off the top box office spot, according to Screen International.

The story of a Playboy bunny exiled from Hugh Hefner's mansion into a sorority student house took a modest 894,188 pounds between Friday and Sunday.

But it was just enough to keep another newcomer, horror movie "Mirrors," down in second place with its tale of an angry spirit seeking vengeance on Earth.

"How to Lose Friends and Alienate People," with Simon Pegg as journalist Young trying to fit in at style magazine "Vanity Fair" was down at three.

Liam Neeson in "Taken" was down two places at four with the tale of an action man forced out of retirement by the kidnap of his daughter.

War movie satire "Tropic Thunder" with Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr and Jack Black, was down two places to five.

Science fiction movie "City of Ember" was new at six, the story of a failing refuge deep beneath the Earth for survivors of a cataclysmic event.

Abba-themed musical "Mamma Mia!" fell three places to seven while "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas" was down two at eight.

"Brideshead Revisited," the latest adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel slipped a place to ninth while Diane Lane fantasising about a romance with Richard Gere in "Nights in Rodanthe" came in at 10.