With $35,885,000 the latest creation of Guillermo Del Toro, “Hellboy II: The Golden Army”, has managed to gain the first place in this weekend box office, while the adventures of “Hancock” were still attractive for the moviegoers.

Also, “Hellboy II: The Golden Army” seems to be better than its predecessor. The First “Hellboy” movie released in April 2004, grossed only $23.1 million in its opening weekend.

“Hellboy II” is also a personal record for Guillermo del Toro, its previous best opening movie being Blade 2, which earned $32.5 million in 2002.

In “Hellboy II: The Golden Army”, Hellboy (Ron Perlman) is fighting creatures from the mythical world, who started a rebellion against humanity in order to take over the Earth. The only one who can stop the extermination of the human race is the reject of both worlds, namely our hero Hellboy. He has some help in the form of the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense (BPRD), whose existence is accidentally revealed to the public.

The creator of the original Hellboy comic, Mike Mignola, was also involved in the writing of the script, adding a lot more to the movie’s action. Its 110 minutes take the viewer to a fantasy world meant to take one’s mind off the day to day thoughts and worries.

“Hancock”, the big champion of the last weekend, landed on the second spot, with its total earnings reaching $165,034,000. The movie budget was $150 million.

In “Hancock,” produced by Sony Pictures and distributed by Columbia Pictures, Will Smith portrays the title character, an unlikely superhero who likes to booze it up, is always cranky, and while attempting to save someone’s life manages, time and again, to cause some havoc and destruction. This success came after the movie received some not so great reviews. Even though critics seemed interested with the original idea, they were let down by the sub-plot which had as a central figure Jason Bateman’s wife, played by Charlize Theron.

On the third spot, we have “Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D”, a movie which opened in  2,811 theaters and earned $20,580,000.  

Set in our time, the story of “Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D” begins as geology professor Trevor Anderson, played by Brendan Fraser, is visited by his nephew, whose father and Trevor’s brother has disappeared in a expedition to Iceland. Anderson finds out that his brother regarded the “Journey to the Center of the Earth” novel by Jules Verne as a scientific writing and not as a fantasy book.

Trevor, accompanied by his nephew, leaves for Iceland, where he hopes to open a portal to the center of the Earth. Here he meets the attractive guide Hannah, portrayed by Anita Briem. After escaping some dangerous situations, the three find the portal, but the world they discover is as deadly as it is beautiful.

The 3D effects that were used in this movie really work wonderfully, but the older audience might feel that the whole film was shot just as a pretext for using them.

“Wall-E” has another good weekend earning an additional $18,509,000 and bringing the total gross of the movie to $162,772,000. Written and directed by Andrew Stanton, “Wall-E” is the best science-fiction movie of this year, it is the most romantic love story since the beginning of 2008 and the best production that smoothly blends ecological and political themes, without lecturing, in a long time.

This weekend, “Wanted”, the movie in which James McAvoy portrays an ordinary man who will found out that he is in fact an justice enforcer for a  centuries-old order of assasins, earned $11,586,000 and the fifth place.

“Wanted” as distantly followed by Steve Carell’s “Get Smart”, which earned $7,105,000. Steve Carrel and Anne Hathaway tried to fill the honorable shoes of Don Adams as Maxwell Smart, Agent 86 of secret U.S. government spy agency CONTROL, and Barbara Feldon as Agent 99.

It seems like they did a good job as the movie earned so far $111,468,000, well past is $80 million budget.

With only $5,300,000 in ticket sales, Eddie Murphy’s “Meet Dave” bombed at box office and earned only the seventh place.

“Meet Dave”, Eddie Murphy's latest movie, which is a B comedy about an alien ship disguised as... Eddie Murphy, with a captain who is a tiny Eddie Murphy, bombs all the way. “Meet Dave” is disappointing especially because Eddie Murphy is one of the actors who could indeed put out something valuable, but apparently, he does not care and is in it totally for the money.

The last three movies that rounded this weekend Top 10 were “Kung Fu Panda”, that earned $4,300,000, “Kit Kittredge: An American Girl” with $2,357,000 and “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” with $2,250,000.