Director Peter Berg’s fanciful comedic actioner Hancock (BVSPR), starring Will Smith, stayed in the toð sðot of the CIS box office chart, having grossed $4,394,746 in its second weekend (63% less than in its first). Hancock’s total box office for 11 days was $20,315,714, and now Berg’s film is in fifth place in the list of highest grossing hits in CIS box office in 2008, following the films Irony of Fate: The Sequel (20^th Century Fox CIS; $49.9 million), The Very Best Film (Caroprokat; $27.6 million), Wanted (UPI; $25.8 million) and Kung-Fu Panda (UPI; $20.7 million).

Guillermo Del Toro’s Hellboy II: The Golden Army (UPI) with Ron Perlman and Selma Blair – a continuation of the same director’s 2004 film Hellboy – started in second place in the box office chart. From 554 screens, it put $3,955,925 on its account in its first four days and achieved the best result for average per screen – $7141 (for Hancock, this figure was $6814). You may recall that four years ago, the first Hellboy grossed in Russia a total of $1.5 million.

The Hellboy sequel filled out the list of films that grossed more than $1 million to 90 titles.

Peter Segal’s spy comedy Get Smart (Caro Premier), based on the hit late 1960’s TV show, debuted third place in the chart. The film stars Steve Carell and Anne Hathaway and grossed $842,212 from 310 screens (an average of $2717 per screen). Another fanciful comedy, Meet Dave (20^th Century Fox CIS) starring Eddie Murphy, grossed $706,362 from 442 screens (a 39% drop) for an 11 day total of $2,423,207. The computer animated robot comedy WALL-E (BVSPR) dropped from second place to fifth. From 615 screens, it grossed $697,276 (a 60% drop) in its third weekend and broke $10 million (at present, it has $10,566,002 in its piggybank). This is already the ninth film this year to gross more than $10 million.

Besides Hellboy and Get Smart there were five more new films in the chart, one of which made it into the top ten. Magicians (Top Film), starring the well-known TV comedians Robert Webb and David Mitchell, took ninth place with a take of $48,814 from 53 screens. Eleventh and 16^th places went to documentary films made by masters of contemporary cinema – Martin Scorsese’s Rolling Stones concert film Shine a Light (Nashe Kino; 33 screens, $32,037) and Emir Kusturica’s Maradona by Kusturica (CP Classic) about the famous footballer (five screens, $9,971). In 21^st place was Bakur Bakuradze’s Russian crime drama Shultes (Nashe Kino), starring Gela Chitava, which grossed $6,439 from four screens in five days. In the next line down, the French animated horror anthology Peur (s) du noir (Russky Reportazh) grossed $5,140 from one screen.

Total CIS box office from July 17–20 was $11,485,050, which is down 32% from last week.