Will Smith has star-powered the poorly reviewed superhero hybrid to a $66 million opening weekend, and a No. 1 finish, according to estimates today.

WALL-E, last weekend’s champ, stayed strong, grossing another $33.4 million, but finished a distant second.

Hancock goes down as Smith’s seventh straight movie to open No. 1. If you count Shark Tale, the 2004 animated comedy, as a Smith movie, his streak stands at eight straight.

Overall, Hancock has grossed $107.3 million since “previewing” on Tuesday night and “opening” on Wednesday.

Looking strictly at the movie’s first five days, Wednesday-Sunday, Hancock took in $100.4 million, per Box Office Mojo stats, far behind the pace of this summer’s two leading movies, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ($152 million) and Iron Man ($112.1 million).

Here’s where you can read more:

Hancock Tops U.S. Box Office for Holiday Weekend - FameCrawler

HancockÂ’ No. 1 at the Box Office - AndPop

Earlier on Monday, Australian film star Nicole Kidman and her husband, country music singer Keith Urban welcomed a baby girl, calling her Sunday Rose.

“Nicole and Keith Urban are delighted to announce that Nicole Kidman gave birth to a baby girl on Monday morning, July 7, 2008 in the United States,” her agent, Allen Eichhorn, said in a statement.

“Sunday Rose Kidman Urban weighed six pounds, seven and a half ounces (2.9 kilograms). Husband Keith was by Nicole’s side and mother and baby are very well,” he said.

The baby is the first biological child for either Kidman or Urban. Nicole had adopted kids while she was with Tom Cruise.

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CelebGossipNet is pleased to congratulate the happy couple.

Well, not quite! Although they did re-unite for a movie premiere. This was for the first time in twenty two years that all the four ex-members of Abba had come together - they had gathered for the premiere of the Swedish flick Mamma Mia, starring Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan and Colin Firth.

Abba, who turned down a billion dollars in the year 2000 to reunite for a tour, haven’t made a public performance since 1986. Although they didn’t perform, they were greeted to wild cheers from the crowd as they were joined on the red carpet by the stars of the movie.

Here’s where you can read more:

Mamma Mia! ABBA Reunites for Film Premiere - E! Online

Abba’s Billion Dollar Rejection - E! Online

Sources reveal that Harry Potter’s latest movie due for release will be much hotter as the stars are now all grown-up. Daniel Radcliffe, who has already shown off his recenty-acquired hunkish torso in the play Equus, is reported to be extremely upbeat about the upcoming movie and recently the stars celebrated the completion of the movie with great pomp and splendor.

The sixth edition of the series is titled Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and the Harry Potter star confirmed that there will be a lot more snogging in this sequel. The movie is already slated to be darker and more in-depth as Albus Dumbledore reveals Voldemort’s past to Harry, the story weaves through deep secrets, dark spells and a betrayal to Harry finally finding his true love.

Better make sure to mark the 21st of November on your calendar - the new Potter is going to be hot, dark and intense.

After her rough and rather forgettable showing at last year’s Video Music Awards, Britney Spears might just perform this year too.

“Everyone deserves a second or third chance, right?” Van Toffler, president of MTV Networks Music Group, playfully told The Associated Press during a telephone interview. When asked if he was just joking, Toffler said “Sorta. Who knows?”.

Spears’ “Gimme More” comeback performance during last year’s MTV Video Music Awards at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas was one of the most-talked about televised moments of 2007. In fact some people went so far as to call her a ‘fat pig’. The drama-filled VMAs drew 7.1 million viewers reportedly.

This year’s MTV Video Music Awards will air live from Paramount Pictures Studios in Los Angeles on September 7.

Update:

You know that Mel Gibson has kind of taken troubled pop star Britney Spears under his wing, right? Well, lately that included setting her up with one of his twin sons who went to rehab too and got himself together.

Here’s more on Britney cavorting at the Video Music Awards:

MTV: Sure, we’d have Britney on VMAs again - CNN.com

Britney Spears to Return to the VMAs? - TV Envy

Britney Spears May Return to VMAs - US Magazine