There has been a lot of hype surrounding the latest TV project from Steven Spielberg. This isn't the first time Big Steve has taken aliens to the small screen. Back in the early 90s, Spielberg brought forth two ambitious TV projects in the forms of SEAQUEST and EARTH 2. 

Both were no where near the quality they should have been and both had an identity crisis soon into production. 

Well, X marked the spot over the weekend. As the X-MEN: FIRST CLASS landed yet again to win the weekend.

This fifth film in the expanding series hauled in $55.1 million. This is far lower than the previous three films but beats the opening of 2000's X-Men and because they are rebooting the franchise from square one with not that well established actors the studio is not nervous.

The movie cost $160 million to produce and has already made close to $120 million if you take in worldwide grosses. By the time it hits VOD it should be lapping up the gravy train.

Hello true believers,

Dr. Kish, The Movie Guy here with another look at the wild and wacky world of movies.

Our top story takes deep into the heart of Bangkok where three rather foolish Americans are stumbling around half drunk. Our feisty reporter Viz Vixen is on the scene with this story.

Viz: So, gentlemen, what exactly happened?

Bradley: It happened again!

Zach: Honestly, I didn't do it this time!

Ed: Sure you didn't Alan, we woke up with no memories, again!

Viz: So, you are saying this has happened before?

Ed: Yes, it happened it Vegas. But what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. It's not supposed to happen in friggin' Bangkok!

Ahoy, mateys! I see a treasure island off the port bow!

Johnny Depp took his fourth turn as Captain Jack Sparrow to the top of the box office. PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES looted $98.2 million over the May long weekend. The movie set box office records overseas proving once again how the movie biz has become a global marketplace.

PIRATES dominated Europe where sequels rule — $20.5 million in Germany and $19 million in the UK. The movie cost $250 million and hauled in $286.5 overseas. Could Captain Jack be looking at a fifth entry? That depends on whether international numbers are big enough to warrant a fifth flick.

Hello peeps!

We are back with another report from the wild and wacky world of box office showdowns.

THOR and his mighty hammer held off those rabid BRIDESMAIDS to remain the box office titan for a second straight weekend. Is it just me, or does that sound like a porn movie name? Thor and the rabid Bridesmaids.

IRON MAN director Jon Favreau referred to the Summer of 2011 as a bloodbath of blockbusters. It will see one of the fiercest competition in recent memory. Where most summers have one or maybe two comic book influenced movies, this summer has eight. Can you name them all?

Which movie will be this year's LAND OF THE LOST? Is there another DISTRICT 9 out there? Will we have any shocking upsets? Stay tuned, true believers!

My neighbor must have the loudest motorbike in three provinces. Every time he starts it, my house shakes, the baby next door cries and my cat whines. It is like the coming of the apocalypse drag-racing style.

You are probably wondering why I would bring up such a strange story given we are supposed to be talking about the movie box office. Well, my biker neighbor and this week's No. 1 movie have something in common. Both have a need for speed and will make your ears bleed.

I remember there was this really cheesy, guilty pleasure movie from the ’80s that starred Michael Caine as a vacationer in the exotic city of Rio De Janeiro. The tile of that romp was what the producers of WATER FOR ELEPHANTS were probably saying after this weekend's results — "BLAME IT ON RIO!"

Brazil is a country famous for its long beaches, crazy parties, supermodels and scorching hot rays. Well over the weekend South America's largest country became known for something else, the blue macaw.

At first you may say, huh, what does this have to do with the box office? It's just a bird that squawks and talks funny. But this breed of macaw is not only the largest of its species but it is also the largest flying parrot in the world. And it was the inspiration for the new animated movie, RIO.