Welcome to CraveOnline's weekly movie news roundup - a weekly rundown of all the breaking news in the film world, with an eye for what Tinseltown's got in store for us in the near future!

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BOX OFFICE TOP TEN

1. Hellboy II: The Golden Army - $35.8 million ($35.8 million)
2. Hancock - $33 million ($165 million)
3. Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D - $20.5 million ($20.5 million)
4. Wall-E - $18.5 million ($162.7 million)
5. Wanted - $11.5 million ($112 million)
6. Get Smart - $7.1 million ($111.4 million)
7. Meet Dave - $5.3 million ($5.3 million)
8. Kung Fu Panda - $4.3 million ($202 million)
9. Kitt Kittredge: An Americal Girl - $2.3 million ($11 million)
10. Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull - $2.2 million ($310.4 million)

Hellboy II: The Golden Army laid waste to naysayers (aka anyone who saw the first one) over the weekend, with a $35.8 million opening. The success of the film, which looks like a cross between Pan's Labrynth and The Fifth Element (and with good reason - director Guillermo del Toro directed the former), will likely be the foundation for a new franchise for Universal.

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Hancock showed it still has some powers left to it, holding off the competition for a second-place weekend finish. The film's worldwide total has so far reached a mind-boggling $345 million. It's the fifth consecutive $150 million-plus blockbuster for Will Smith, who's far and away Hollywood's most bankable star these days.

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Eddie Murphy's career as a leading man continues its slow, ugly death with Meet Dave, his latest comedy that gives Pluto Nash a run for its money on the list of biggest Murphy flops. It opened last weekend to pathetic reviews, and was met with even worse numbers - the $5.3 million it made could arguably have come almost entirely from overflow from sold-out theaters showing Hellboy, Hancock, Wanted, Wall-E... you get the point. I don't remember the last Eddie Murphy film I saw in theaters, and until he actually commits himself to a half-decent role that isn't geared towards kids, it's going to stay that way.

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Wonderbread cardboard actor Brendan Fraser's enjoying the first top-3 opening of his career (that doesn't involve mummies, anyway) with New Line's Journey to the Center of the Earth. The film sold a modest $20.6 million over the weekend, but hopes were higher for the film, which was marketed as the first live-action feature shot with a new digital 3-D process. "3-D" was originally part of the title, but was dropped after theater owners took their sweet time dishing out the major cash required to install the expensive new 3-D projection systems. Go figure.

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Brad Pitt is being eyed for the lead in Quentin Tarantino's years-in-the-making masterpiece-in-waiting Inglorious Bastards, the filmmaker's Dirty Dozen-inspired WWII epic about eight soldiers stuck behind enemy lines. They're led by Lt. Aldo Raine, who at one point tells his men: "Every man under my command owes me one hundred Nazi scalps. And I want my scalps. And all y'all will get me one hundred Nazi scalps taken from the heads of one hundred Nazis or you will die trying." Tarantino has said that Bastards will feature his best dialogue to date, an exciting prospect given the awesome communique among characters in his previous films.

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Warner Bros.' adaptation of the awesome children's book Where the Wild Things Are has been mired in delays and reshoots, and the studio is reportedly a clawstroke away from scrapping the project entirely. But hopes for the film remain high enough for the studio to give director Spike Jonze more time and money to finish the project, according to WB President Alan Horn. "We'd like to find a common ground that represents Spike's vision but still offers a film that really delivers for a broad-based audience," Horn said. "No one wants to turn this into a bland, sanitized studio movie. This is a very special piece of material and we're just trying to get it right."

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People are sick of sports comedies, which is half the reason why comedy goldenboy Will Ferrell's Semi Pro fell on its face at the box office, despite being marginally funny. But despite being (way) late to the party, Disney thinks they can milk the formula a little more by switching the sport in question to synchronized swimming. Synchronicity will follow a pair of male synchronized swimmers, and it's already being billed as "Blades of Glory in the water." Please, Will, steer clear of this one.

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More concept art has been unveiled for Rob Zombie's Tyrannosaurus Rex film, and it looks badass! Very little is known about the production, but it's rumored that the film centers on a wrestler named Tyrannosaurus Rex who's on the run from a biker gang from hell. The idea is loosely based on a comic book Zombie did with Steve Niles called The Nail.

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The first trailer for John Moore's Max Payne video game adaptation has arrived, and it's looking good! Judging by the preview, the film looks to be a remarkably faithful visual representation of the game, and Mark Whalberg looks right at home as Payne. Unlike the game, there may be a paranormal element to the movie, as the final seconds of the trailer feature a blackened, demonic-looking angel flying out of a building, clutching a person. Badass? Hell yes it is. Max Payne hits theaters October 17th.