Kangaroo Jack, which follows two crooks who chase a kangaroo that makes off with their money is in fourth place, and Ripley's Game, the sequel to the Talented Mr Ripley starring John Malkovich, has debuted in fifth place.

BBC: Martin's House is UK film hit

Literature fans may want to take a brief side trip to Tegna where the author Patricia Highsmith (Strangers on a Train, The Talented Mr. Ripley) spent the last years of her life (her grave is in the Tegna cemetery).

BBC: Two days in the Italian Lakes

Hollywood has snatched up another Highsmith humdinger, The Talented Mr. Ripley, published in 1955.

FORBES: A dark view