22 Jump Street Leaps To Top Of U.k. Box Office

Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum's new comedy 22 Jump Street has vaulted to the top of the U.K. box office in its opening weekend (06-08Jun14).

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The sequel, starring the pair as two cops who go undercover at a high school, raked in $7.6 million (£4.8 million) in ticket sales, pushing the previous weekend's (30May-01Jun14) chart-topper Maleficent into second place, with $4.1 million (£2.6 million).

Comic book blockbuster X-Men: Days of Future Past slipped one place to third, with weekend takings of $2.7 million (£1.7 million), and the top five was rounded out by Tom Cruise's futuristic war movie Edge of Tomorrow ($1.9 million/£1.2 million) and Seth MACFarlane's cowboy comedy A Million Ways to Die in the West ($768,000/£480,000).