Movie is No 1 in UK and Ireland

Mrs Brown's Boys: D'Movie topped the UK and Irish box office on its opening weekend.

The big-screen outing of Brendan O'Carroll's sitcom hit took £4.3million – toppling the teen romance The Fault in Our Stars from the No 1 slot.

D'Movie was shown in 522 cinemas, meaning it took £8,240 per screen, on average, which trade website Screen Daily calls 'superb'.

The opening week was considerably more than Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa – which took £2.2million – but well behind The Inbetweeners Movie's record-breaking £13.2million.

In Ireland, D'Movie enjoyed its biggest opening day for any release so far this year.

The news comes as O'Carroll announced an arena tour, How Now Mrs Brown Cow, for 2015.

Read our review of the film here.

Published: 1 Jul 2014