For the third weekend in a row, The Dark Knight [1] was No. 1 at the box office, narrowly beating The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor [2] for the top spot. The Mummy earned about $42.5 million while The Dark Knight earned $43.8 million. Thanks to this win, The Dark Knight has just about crossed the $400 million line [3] in domestic ticket sales.

Variety notes that most box office watchers had predicted [4] this would be the weekend Batman would lose his crown, but I'm not all that surprised. The third addition to the silly action-adventure Mummy franchise failed to meet even the lowest critical expectations earning far worse reviews [5] than the two [6] before it [7].

Somewhat hilariously, Brendan Fraser now has two movies in the top five box office earners this week, as the 3-D adventure Journey to the Center of the Earth [8] is holding strong at No. 5. So that would make him. . . a fairly hot box office commodity. Wow.

Elsewhere in the top five, Step Brothers [9] came in third place and Mamma Mia! [10] took fourth.

Photos courtesy of Warner Bros. [11]