Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events is Regretfully No 1 at the UK Box Office

Lemony Snicket's a Series of Unfortunate Events is Regretfully No 1 at the UK Box Office LONDON, December 20/PRNewswire/ -- Despite several warnings not to watch this most unpleasant film, DreamWorks Pictures' and Paramount Pictures' LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS starring Jim Carrey, Jude Law, Liam Aiken, Emily Browning, Timothy Spall, Catherine O'Hara, Billy Connolly, Cedric the Entertainer and Meryl Streep shot to the top of the UK box office this weekend, grossing a fantastic GBP2,210,979 across 452 screens throughout the UK & Ireland. Jim Carrey stars as Count Olaf, a wily villain with clever disguises and outrageous schemes, who is bent on swindling the Baudelaire orphans out of their family fortune. Featuring the unique blend of intelligence, irony and irreverence that readers of all ages have discovered in Lemony Snicket's best-selling books. Lemony Snicket's books were the first to knock the HARRY POTTER series out of the New York Times children's best-seller list. With rave reviews from the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly and the UK's The Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent, The Guardian and The Observer, over 3 million copies of the first eleven Lemony Snicket books have sold since 2001 in the UK. All Lemony Snicket books currently on the market have landed on the New York Times children's best-seller list. The film 'LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS' is based on the first three books: 'The Bad Beginning', 'The Reptile Room' and 'The Wide Window'. LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS is directed by Brad Silberling from a screenplay by Robert Gordon based on the books by Lemony Snicket, the film is produced by Laurie MacDonald, Walter F. Parkes and Jim Van Wyck, and executive-produced by Scott Rudin, Barry Sonnenfeld, Julia Pistor and Albie Hecht. LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS is distributed in the UK and Ireland through United International Pictures. For images from the film: Please take a look on www.image.net Source: United International Pictures (UK) For further information please contact: Angharad Thomas - UIP Press Office T: +44(0)20-7534-5207/ e-mail: angharad_thomas@uip.co.uk ------- Profile: International Entertainment