London
(Reuters):
Director
Michael
Mann's
updated
version
of
Miami
Vice
shot
to
the
top
of
the
UK
box
office
on
its
opening
weekend,
despite
a
tepid
reception
from
the
critics.
The
darker,
grittier
remake
of
the
1980s
cocaine
cops
television
series,
with
Colin
Farrell
as
Crockett
and
Jamie
Foxx
as
Tubbs,
took
2.23
million
pounds
to
topple
Disney's
animated
comedy
Cars,
according
to
figures
from
Screen
International.
Down
one
at
third
was
Pirates
of
the
Caribbean:
Dead
Man's
Chest,
as
was
Friends
star
Jennifer
Aniston's
marital
comedy
The
Break-up
in
fourth.
New
at
five
was
My
Super
ex-Girlfriend,
in
which
regular
guy
Luke
Wilson
discovers
the
perils
of
dumping
superhero
Uma
Thurman.
At
six,
down
from
four,
was
Superman
Returns
with
teenage
spy
thriller
Stormbreaker
down
two
at
seven.
The
Warner
Brothers
animation
Ant
Bully,
the
story
of
how
a
boy
who
floods
an
ant
colony
with
his
water
pistol
is
magically
reduced
to
insect
size
and
sentenced
to
hard
labour,
was
eighth
after
its
first
weekend.
On
the
way
down
at
ninth
was
Garfield
and
at
10th
Over
the
Hedge.