Apparently, Ben Stiller’s “Tropic Thunder” will end the box office reign of “The Dark Knight”, at least judging by the Friday estimates released by BoxOfficeMojo.com.

“Tropic Thunder” earned $8,200,000 in ticket sales from 3,319 theaters in its debut day, knocking “The Dark Knight” on third spot.

Ben Stiller’s production is very likely to linger on the first spot even over the weekend and interrupt the Batman sequel’s box office lead.

“Tropic Thunder” is a comedy situated on the edge, as is makes fun of everything: Vietnam veterans, drug addicts who are recovering, Russell Crowe, those who are overweight and the list can go on. But, if you get over those aspects and don’t take it personally, the movie is really funny. The action revolves around a group of self absorbed, pampered actors who are taken into the jungle to lose their VIP behavior. Even if the jungle is real and they get involved in all sorts of dangerous situations, they keep it cool, thinking it’s all a movie.

Ben Stiller plays action star Tugg Speedman, Robert Downey Jr. is Kirk Lazarus and Jack Black is Jeff Portnoy star of the movie “The Fatties: Fart II,” making fun of the Klumps with Eddie Murphy. All these actors are trying to make “Tropic Thunder,” a Vietnam War movie based on a book writer by Sgt. Four Leaf Tayback (Nick Nolte), but they are to vane and their egos are too big to let them work.

Warners Bros’ “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” opened on the second place, by gaining $6,250,000.

Set between Star Wars Episode II and III, “Attack of the Clones” and “Revenge of the Sith,” the first animated “Star Wars” production does not bring into light a new story, but it isn’t a sequel of the previous films either. While prior “Star Wars” movies focused especially on the mental and physical development of the Skywalkers, “The Clone Wars” mainly concentrates on a three-year war between a Clone army and a separatist group. The bad news is that there is no Ewan McGregor, nor any Luke Skywalker, since he had not been born yet at that time.

However, it seems like the movie has managed to attract the fans of the franchise.

On Friday, “The Dark Knight” earned an additional $5,000,000, bringing the total gross of the movie to $459,703,000 in 29 days.

Fox’s horror movie “Mirrors”, starring Kiefer Sutherland and Paula Patton, debuted on the fourth place with $4,200,000.

The fifth place went to “Pineapple Express”, which gained $3,200,000, while “The Mummy: Tomb Of The Dragon Emperor” earned the sixth place with $2,450,000.

The Friday Top 10 was rounded up by “The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants 2”, “Mamma Mia!”, “Step Brothers” and Woody Allen’s “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”.