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Top 10 Genre Movies: Dark Knight 3-peats atop box office

By David Speakman • August 3, 2008

The modern - and moody - spy fi re-telling comic book adaptation of Batman, The Dark Knight fought  off hordes of mummies to continued its reign as the box office weekend royalty this past weekend.

Dark Knight  brought in just under $44 million in ticket sales in its third weekend - besting horror comedy newcomer, The Mummy:Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, starring Brendan Fraser. Mummy brought in $42.5 million in its first weekend and debuted in the No. 2 spot.

Last week's debut genre title, The X-Files: I Want to Believe, landed at No. 6 on the Genre Top 10 list (No. 9 overall.) with $3.4 million in ticket sales.

To make room for Mummy animated fantasy comedy Kung Fu Panda dropped out of the genre Top 10 after being a mainstay for the past 8 weeks. So far in its run, Panda brought in more than $210 million in North American sales alone on a $130 million budget; almost ensuring that a sequel will be made.

No genre films are set to debut next week, so this list is expected to largely be unchanged for the second weekend of August.

Following are the Top 10 speculative fiction movies in release in North America for the weekend of August 1 -3, 2008.

RANK #. (Overall Rank) Title - Weekend Gross | Total Gross [Budget]

  1. (1) The Dark Knight - $43.8 million | $394.9 million [$185 million]
  2. (2) The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor - $42.5 million | $2.5 million ($145 million)
  3. (5) Journey to the Center of the Earth - $6.9 million } $73.1 million ($60 million)
  4. (7) Hancock - $5.2 million | $216 million ($150 million)
  5. (8) WALL-E - $4.7 million | $204 million ($180 million)
  6. (9) The X-Files: I Want to Believe - $3.4 million | $17 million ($30 million)
  7. (10) Space Chimps - $2.8 million | $22 million ($37 million)
  8. (11) Hellboy II: The Golden Army - $2.5 million | $71.3 million ($85 million)
  9. (12) Wanted - $1.3 million | $131 million ($75 million)
  10. (14) Get Smart - $1.2 million | $127 million ($80 million)

Source: Box Office Mojo - list only includes science fiction, spy fi, fantasy and dark fantasy/horror titles.

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David Speakman

David Speakman - known in fannish circles as Davodd - is recovering from almost 20 years as a professional writer and journalist in mainstream print and broadcasting. He recently "retired" from journalism, citing that too many mega-mergers caused news focus to shift from serving the public interest to serving up eyeballs to advertisers. Currently he works full time as a paralegal while attending night law school. A member of N3F on and off since 1984, David's fannish activities in recent days have been curtailed due to time and budget constraints of being a law school student; although he does manage to squeeze in episodes of Battlestar Galactica, issues of Weird Tales magazine and an odd superhero movie "now and then."

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