Irish actor Cillian Murphy's latest film, '28 Days Later' has topped the box office chart in Ireland and the UK in its first weekend of release.
The film, directed by Danny Boyle ('Trainspotting' and 'The Beach'), is a horror/thriller about a virus that turns people into murderous zombies.
Other new openers, 'Mr Deeds' – a comedy remake starring Adam Sandler – and dramatic thriller 'Changing Lanes, with Samuel L Jackson and Ben Affleck, entered the chart at four and five respectively.
Vin Diesel's action movie 'xXx' dropped to second place on the chart, while Disney animation 'Lilo & Stitch' is at three.
'The Magdalene Sisters', Peter Mullan's film about life in an Irish Magdalene laundry in the 1960s, is at 14.
