Although it opened on the first place on Friday, “The Mummy” was crashed by “The Dark Knight” in this weekend box office.

With $43,800,000 in ticket sales in the last three days, “The Dark Knight” is leading the box office for the third consecutive weekend and it seems ready to achieve new records.

The movie earned so far $394,887,000 in just three weeks, exceeding by far its $185 million budget and seriously threatening the dominance of “Titanic”. With $601 million “Titanic” is No. 1 movie of all time in North America, followed by 1977’s “Star Wars”.

None of the movies which are scheduled to be premiered next Friday, August 8, didn’t has the potential to beat “The Dark Knight”, so it’s sure to assume that Warner Bros’ movie will have another marvelous weekend.

“The Dark Knight” has already done the unthinkable, surpassing the $300 million mark in a short 10 days, the least it has taken any film to amass such an impressive sum. The previous record was set by 2006’s “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest,” which earned $300 million in what now seems a long period: 16 days.

"It certainly has a shot at 500 million dollars," Media By Numbers President Paul Dergarabedian told Bloomberg financial news service. "It's amazing we're even talking about it reaching the same numbers as 'Titanic.' That's a decade-long record."

“The Dark Knight” depicts a Gotham City paralyzed with fear, whose once superhero is not only confronted with his inner doubts, but also with the citizens’ frowns. Cheap copycats, pranksters and outlaws wearing similar Batman costumes undermine the real hero’s credibility. Batman has turned from the hero trusted by the entire town into a decrepit hero who himself doubts his mission there. He is the incarnation of both the superhero and the villain.

In the meantime, Gotham City redirects its hopes to a new hero: district attorney Harvey Dent (Aaron Eckhart), who is prepared to eradicate corruption and crime. Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) is seriously considering leaving his place to Dent, now that he is also the love interest of Wayne’s former girlfriend, assistant D.A. Rachel (played by Maggie Gyllenhaal, a better replacement for Katie Holmes).

But Batman, Dent and the entire Gotham City are shattered by the appearance of the most callous outlaw: the Joker. Embodying supreme evil, transforming his ruthless plans into even more ruthless actions, careless of anyone and of himself, too, the Joker makes terror omnipresent in the city.

Unlike any other evil character, the Joker has no motive for his wrongdoing and in the same time, he is set to accomplish his ultimate goal: chaos. His painted face – white complexion, dark eyes and blood-crimson mouth – expresses nothing more than he is: ruthlessness.

The Joker asks Batman to unveil his face, else he will make the streets of Gotham red with blood; for the first time in a movie of the genre, audiences will fear that the protagonist, epitome of the good, will be defeated.

Brendan Fraser’ return as the Mummy hunter in “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” has earned only $42,450,000, and failed to match the forecasts. It was predicted that the movie will open in the $50 million range.

In “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” Brendan Fraser returns to his Rick O’Connell persona and walks in the shoes of the mummy-hunter, tomb-fascinated character once again, in his attempt to combat the raised-from-the-dead Han Emperor (Jet Li). Of course, it might be a bit hard for him to do it all on his own (although nothing is impossible when talking about Rick O’Connell), so his family will obviously lend him a hand. Even though he was negatively evaluated by some critics, stating that he lacked the energy he once benefitted from and that it seemed the franchise bored him to tears, his bad acting is not clearly perceptible to the common viewer, who does not watch the movie in order to highlight the bad aspects, but to enjoy it as much as he can.

The mummy-buster’s team includes his wife Evelyn (Maria Bello, role substitute for Rachel Weisz), his son Alex (newcomer Luke Ford) and his flippant, unconventional brother-in-law Jonathan (John Hannah). They all set for the epic that speeds between the obscure catacombs of ancient China and the ashen and frosty Himalayas after Alex unearths the tomb of the Dragon Emperor, and awakes his evil majesty after a curse of 2,000 years, calling on his family to prevent the mummy from rebuilding his empire and sinking the world into his ruthless, unrelenting power.

Sony’s “Step Brothers” has failed to the second to third place and it earned $16,300,000 and “Mamma Mia!“ followed close behind $13,121,000.

However, despite the financial results of “The Mummy”, Brenda Fraser has enough motives to celebrate this weekend as its other movie, “Journey to the Center of the Earth” has remained on the fifth place with $6,875,000, bringing the total gross of the movie to $73,140,000.

But for Kevin Costner, this weekend was far from good, as its latest movie, “Swing Vote” is a flop at box office. “Swing Vote” earned only the sixth place and $6,300,000.

“Swing Vote” revolves around Ernest 'Bud' Johnson, played by Kevin Costner, on whose vote the result of the entire election depends on. Bud is an egg inspector at a farm in a little New Mexico town who cares only about his girl Molly, portrayed by Madeline Carroll. Bud has a little bit of a drinking problem, but still Molly loves him a lot and takes really good care of him, making one wonder who the real parent in the family really is.

Molly convinces her father to go and vote the candidate that he wants to become president, and Bud decides to do so, even though he doesn't really care about any of these. As the day of the elections comes, he is fired from work because of his character and the fact that he is always late. Upset by the situation, Bud goes drinking and eventually forgets to do what he promised to his daughter.

However, because of a computer malfunction, it appears that he did vote, but his ballot was not taken into account. Since there is a perfect tie between the Republican and the Democratic candidates, it all comes down to Bud's vote, who suddenly enters the media spotlight.

Sony’s “Hancock”, starring Will Smith as an anti-super hero, earned $5,200,000 and the seventh place. It was followed by “Wall-E” with $4,747,000.

The last two movies that made it in The Top 10 were “The X-Files: I Want to Believe” and “Space Chimps”.