Colin Blackstock writes in The Guardian newspaper today in the UK that “To fans of Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy it will come as no surprise. They’ve always known the answer to Life, the Universe and Everything is 42. But in a ‘delightfully improbably coincidence’, the film has taken £4.2m in its opening weekend. The film version of Adams’ cult classic went straight to the top of the British film chart over the bank holiday weekend. In the US the film has done the same, knocking the Nicole Kidman thriller The Interpreter off the top spot. A spokesman for Buena Vista, the Disney company behind the film, said the £4.2m figure was a ‘delightfully improbable coincidence’. ‘I’m sure the fact that the film’s opening gross was £4.2m would have delighted Douglas Adams,’ he said. The film surprised American pundits when it went to the top of the chart and took more than $21m (£11m). Whether fans will make anything of this figure is debatable, but it’s unlikely to go un-noticed that it’s half of 42″.