Pudsey film flops at UK box office as Apes dominate

Pudsey and his owner Ashleigh Butler won Britain's Got Talent in 2012

A film based on Pudsey, the dancing dog winner of Britain's Got Talent, has flopped at the UK box office.

The canine comedy, featuring the voice David Walliams, earned £446,000, taking an average of just £1,100 in each of the 403 cinemas where it screened.

Chart-topper Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, starring Andy Serkis as chimp leader Caesar, took £8.7m.

The second highest new entry was the broadcast of the Monty Python live show at the O2 in London.

The comedy troupe's farewell show on Sunday night earned £1.26m, according to box office tracker Rentrak.

Screened at 410 locations, and earning £830,586 over the weekend, violinist and conductor Andre Rieu's 2014 10th Anniversary Maastricht Concert became the UK's highest-grossing music event of all time, according to website Deadline.

Elsewhere on the chart, How To Train Your Dragon 2 was the second placed movie, earning £1.88m, bringing its UK haul so far to £12.9m.

Transformers: Age of Extinction has earned £15.5m in the two weeks since its release, adding £1.8m over the weekend and giving it the third spot in the chart.