It was all aboard the express for UK cinema-goers this weekend as PINEAPPLE EXPRESS raced straight to the #1 spot, taking over £1.3 million at the UK box office.

After taking on the sex comedy in The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up and redefining the coming-of-age film in Superbad, the filmmaking team at Apatow Productions makes its first action-comedy in Pineapple Express, a Midnight Run for the stoner set about two lazy guys on the lam and their comic attempt to stay one step ahead of a band of vicious killers. Process server Dale Denton (Seth Rogen) has a grudging business relationship with the laconic Saul Silver (James Franco), deigning to visit only to purchase Saul’s primo product – a rare new strain of pot called Pineapple Express. But when Dale becomes the only witness to a murder by a crooked cop (Rosie Perez) and the city’s most dangerous drug lord (Gary Cole), he panics and dumps the Pineapple Express at the scene. When it’s traced back to him, Dale and Saul run for their lives… and they quickly discover that they’re not just suffering from weed-fueled paranoia. If they survive, these two just might become real friends. All aboard the Pineapple Express.

Columbia Pictures presents in association with Relativity Media an Apatow Company production, Pineapple Express. Starring Seth Rogen, James Franco, Gary Cole, Rosie Perez, and Danny McBride. Directed by David Gordon Green. Produced by Judd Apatow and Shauna Robertson. Screenplay by Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg. Story by Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg. Executive producers are Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. Director of photography is Tim Orr. Production designer is Chris Spellman. Edited by Craig Alpert. Co-producer is Dara Weintraub. Costume designer is John Dunn. Music is by Graeme Revell.