2:55pm UK, Tuesday July 16, 2002

Scooby Doo has shot straight to the top of the UK box office charts.

The movie, based on the cartoon series, took £3.3m over the weekend.

With previous weekend previews of £1.9m added in, the film actually opened with £5.1m.

This makes it Warner Bros' second-highest UK opening of all-time behind Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone which generated £16m.

Minority Report dropped to second place with £2.4m, according to figures from www.screendaily.com

Resident Evil opened in third place with £801,000, followed by Spider-Man at four, and Bollywood film Devdas at number five.