1:35 p.m. - "Tropic Thunder" Tops Weekend Box Office
By: KARK 4 News
Updated: August 18, 2008
Batman has finally lost his grip on the top spot at the box office charts. The comedy "Tropic Thunder" is this weekend's new box office king with an estimated take of 26-million dollars.
"The Dark Knight" slipped to second place with nearly 17-million dollars.
In third place was the animated movie "Star Wars: The Clone Wars." It made 15-and-a-half-million dollars in its debut.
Another debut film, the chilling "Mirrors," made just over eleven-million dollars to place fourth.
"Pineapple Express" slipped to fifth place this weekend with ten-million-dollars.
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