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9 March 2007
Hot Fuzz Still Tops UK Box Office Charts
Pegg and Wright walk the fat blue line
Action comedy Hot Fuzz remains top of the UK and Ireland box office charts for the third week in a row.
The film, starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, knocked Hugh Grant’s rom-com Music and Lyrics from the top spot and held off the challenge from Jim Carrey thriller The Number 23, amassing an estimated £15.7m.
The film is set to face stiff competition this week from US box office smash Norbit, starring Eddie Murphy as an obese black woman (again) trying to find love with a skinnier, male version of himself.
But Hot Fuzz fans are confident that Pegg’s hip British comedy is more than a match for what critics have termed a mess of "fat jokes" and "casual racism".
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