Guillermo del Toro's Hellboy II: The Golden Army [1] won the weekend box office with an estimated $35.9 million, not only handily beating the current competition, but also surpassing the first Hellboy's opening weekend earnings ($23.2 million). Yippee! I'm happy for that ragtag group of superheroes [2].

On the other end of the spectrum was Meet Dave [3], which Variety described [4] as "one of the worst opening grosses ever for an Eddie Murphy pic." The details are even more painful. Consider this: It cost $60 million to make Meet Dave and it only earned an estimated $5.3 million over the weekend. That's not a pretty picture.

Hancock [5] remained a draw (fun aside: at the movie theater over the weekend, a group of young boys sped past me while one yelled, "Hurry up! I don't want to miss a single second of Hancock!"), coming in second place, followed by the 3-D action flick Journey to the Center of the Earth [6]. Pixar's Wall-E [7] came in at No. 4 followed by Wanted [8] to round out the top five.

Photos courtesy of Universal Pictures [9]