Another super box office weekend

As expected, the Will Smith superhero movie “Hancock” pummeled the weekend box office, taking in an additional $66 milion, and bringing its total to $107 million in less than a week.

That makes it the third superhero movie to open at No. 1 this summer, following big opening weekends for “Iron Man” ($98 million) and “The Incredible Hulk” ($55 million). Another comic book-based movie, “Wanted,” has also done very well. (That film opened with $51 million and was a strong No. 2 the prior weekend.)

The big box-office numbers certainly bode well for this weekend’s “Hellboy II: The Golden Army” and for next week’s “The Dark Knight,” both of which are also based on comic book characters and concepts

Which of these superhero movies has been your favorite so far?

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