Superman Returns Eye-Lasers US Weekend Box Office

Superman Returns is one of the most highly-anticipated movies of recent years, with people frothing at the mouth trying to speculate on everything from Superman's haircut to if the Superman Returns Lois Lane is better than Teri Hatcher or the mad woman who lived in a hedge.

And guess what? Superman Returns is number one in the US weekend box office. Except that Superman Returns actually came out last Wednesday, so the opening weekend wasn't really the opening weekend, even though this weekend was the opening weekend of Superman Returns. Confused? So are we - so much so that we're not actually going to bother explaining it properly.

In about the least surprising news since the dawn of man, Superman Returns has topped the US weekend box office. The Superman Returns hype has been slowly building for the last twelve months, with newspapers filling up with stories about everything Superman-related, from the political timing of the release of Superman Returns to how big Superman's todger is. And that adds up to weekend box office… well, if not actual gold, then something vaguely gold-coloured, since Superman Returns didn't do quite as well as everyone expected. Here's the US weekend box office top five:

1  - Superman Returns (He's the Man Of Steel, he's faster than a speeding bullet, he can leap buildings in a single bound, but can Superman save the stinking wreckage of Poseidon? Not a chance, buddy) $52,150,000

2 - The Devil Wears Prada (This looks like the sort of film that idiots who liked Sex And The City will enjoy, but with Meryl Streep instead of that horsey woman from Mars Attacks, and no sex. Woo) $27,000,000

3 - Click (The 'I've got a crazy remote control to help me with my life' gags keep coming. This week: Adam Sandler sees the 1989 episode of Round The Twist with the magic remote control, and fast forwards his life until he's fully ripped it off) $19,400,000 

4 - Cars (We're still yet to see Cars, because we're waiting to see what Jeremy Clarkson thinks of it. Then we're going to the exact opposite of what he says. That moral outlook has served us well so far) $14,035,000

5 - Nacho Libre (Imagine how much better King Kong would be if Jack Black played his role with the same borderline-offensive comedy South American accent as he does in this film. Imagine… actually, don't imagine too hard. Your life is already too short) $6,186,000

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[story by Stuart Heritage]