Will Smith Rules The Box Office With Hancock

 

Will Smith lead the Fourth of July weekend box office.

His latest action comedy Hancock earned $107.3 million since opening last Tuesday, becoming Smith’s eighth movie to open at No. 1 and his fifth movie to debut at No. 1 over the Fourth of July.

Hancock was the second-best opening weekend for Smith, following last year’s I Am Legend.

“Will Smith, Mom, apple pie and the Fourth of July. It doesn’t get any better,” Rory Bruer, head of distribution for Sony, told the Associated Press. “People just so relate to him and the characters that he plays. They totally embraced it as something different, something fresh.”

The complete top 10:

1. Hancock, $66 million
2. WALL-E, $33.4 million
3. Wanted, $20.6 million
4. Get Smart, $11.1 million
5. Kung Fu Panda, $7.5 million
6. The Incredible Hulk, $5 million
7. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, $3.9 million
8. Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, $3.6 million
9. Sex and the City, $2.3 million
10. You Don’t Mess With the Zohan, $2 million

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