Springfield’s finest have trounced the competition to claim the top spot at the US Box Office. The Simpsons first big screen adventure took $72m (£36m) in its opening weekend, knocking Adam Sandler’s I Now Pronounce You Chuck And Larry into second place. This means The Simpsons Movie now holds the record for the biggest ever US debut for a television adaptation, leaving Mission**
Harry Potter And The Order Of Phoenix is now sitting at number three, while Hairspray, Transformers and Ratatouille are still dotted throughout the top ten, each taking $15.5m, $11.5m, and $7.3m respectvely.
Catherine Zeta-Jones’ new cuisine-based comedy, No Reservations, launched an average opening salvo by entering the number five slot with a three-day gross of $11.8m, while Lindsay Lohan’s current situation won’t have been helped by this weekend’s statistics – her latest thriller**, I Know Who Killed Me**, only just crept into the top ten with a meagre $3.4m (£1.7m).