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Angelina Jolie's film Maleficent has topped the UK and Ireland box office on its debut weekend, knocking X Men: Days of Future Past into second spot.

Telling the story of Sleeping Beauty from the perspective of the villain, it took £6.6m in the UK - and also topped the US box office this weekend.

Tom Cruise's latest outing, The Edge of Tomorrow, could only debut in third place with £1.9m.

Seth MacFarlane's A Million Ways To Die In The West came fourth, on £1.2m.

The film fared poorly compared to MacFarlane's 2012 comedy Ted, which took £9.3 million in its first weekend of release.

Godzilla rounded out the top five in its third week on the chart with £982,401.

It was announced last week that British director Gareth Edwards, who made Godzilla, is set to direct a Star Wars spin-off film.

The unnamed film will be in addition to the forthcoming Star Wars trilogy, the first instalment of which is being directed by JJ Abrams.

Source: Rentrak