User blog:Ceauntay/iCarly 2 smashes UK chart reign

iCarly: The Sequel topped the UK and Ireland box office chart.

The iCarly: The Movie sequel took in nearly £7.95 million, while The Dark Knight Rises stumbles in a close second place with £7.28 million, and animated film The Lorax, which entered the chart at three.

The Dr Seuss film took £1.85m, while Ice Age: Continental Drift fell one place to three after taking £1.54m.

The next highest new entry was music documentary Searching For Sugar Man, which opened at seven.

The film, about Mexican-American musician Sixto Rodriguez, took £68,857 from the 27 screens it was shown in, averaging £2,459 per screen.

By comparison, Ice Age took an average £2,981 per screen across 518 sites, while number four film, The Amazing Spider-Man, averaged £1,452 per screen across 473 sites.

After a second successful week, The Dark Knight Rises has now become the fasting-grossing film of 2012 in the UK, having crossed the £30m mark in 10 days.

It beat Avengers Assemble, which took 12 days to reach the same total.

Meanwhile, Aardman's ''The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists'' leapt back up the chart from 24 to number ten after doubling the amount of screens it was shown in, capitalising on the school holidays.

Bollywood film Carry On Jatta was the only other new entry in the top 10 at nine, averaging £4,084 at each of the eleven screens it was shown in.