Clive Owen and Natalie Portman won Golden Globes for Closer
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Romantic drama Closer has narrowly beaten satire Team America to the top of the UK's weekend box office chart.
Closer, a tangled love story starring Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Clive Owen and Natalie Portman, took £1.57m.
Owen and Portman have won Golden Globe awards and picked up Bafta nominations for their roles.
Team America, a Thunderbirds-style spoof by the people behind South Park, made £1.53m, according to the chart compiled by Screen International.
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UK BOX OFFICE CHART
1. Closer - £1.57m
2. Team America - £1.53m
3. White Noise - £1.38m
4. The Aviator - £980,000
5. Million Dollar Baby - £800,000
Source: Screen International
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But if Closer's £128,432 takings from Thursday's previews were not counted, Team America would have come top.
Last week's number one, supernatural thriller White Noise, moved down to third with £1.38m, followed by Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio's highly acclaimed The Aviator with £980,000.
Boxing drama Million Dollar Baby, which also won two awards at the Golden Globes, was a new entry in fifth.
But Vanity Fair, starring Reese Witherspoon with a Bollywood twist on the classic Thackeray story, could only enter at number 13, taking almost £205,000 over the weekend.
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