DHAKA: ‘Trolls’ has gone straight in at the top of the UK box office, beating Tom Cruise’s latest ‘Jack Reacher’ film.

The animated children’s comedy, which features Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake among its voice cast, took $6.59m on its opening weekend, reports the BBC.

‘Jack Reacher: Never Go Back’ took $3.3m to debut at number two - the same position it took at the US box office.

Ken Loach’s ‘I, Daniel Blake’ landed at number nine, taking $543,000.

It is Loach’s strongest ever debut. Prior to this weekend, his most successful opening was ‘The Wind That Shakes The Barley’, which took $477,000 in 2006, according to Screen Daily.

Last week’s number one, ‘The Girl On The Train’, dropped to number three after taking a further $2.44m in its third week.

‘Inferno’, which stars Tom Hanks and is based on the Dan Brown novel, dropped to number four with $1.59m.

Bridget Jones’s ‘Baby’, the third film in the Renee Zellwegger franchise, took $1.34m to round off the top five.

Further down the top 10, horror movie ‘Ouija: Origin of Evil’ debuted at number six with $952,000.

‘Keeping Up With The Joneses’, which stars Jon Hamm and Isla Fisher, took $330,000 on its opening weekend to debut at number 10.

Box Office Top Five

1. Trolls (£5.4m)
2. Jack Reacher: Never Go Back took (£2.7m)
3. The Girl on the Train (£2m)
4. Inferno (£1.3m)
5. Bridget Jones's Baby (£1.1m)

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