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By Bruce Dancis, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Aug. 5--"The Dark Knight" is on a mission of "Titanic" proportions.

BATMAN topped Spider-Man as the king of superheroes, box office figures showed. The Dark Knight took a US box office record of EUR158.3m (pounds 79.2m) in its opening weekend, beating the previous best of EUR151.1m(pounds 75.6m) set by Spider-Man 3 in May last year.

Indiana Jones unearthed box office gold at domestic theaters with a performance that puts it on track to become the second biggest Memorial Day movie opening ever, according to studio estimates Sunday.

By Scott Bowles Will Ferrell remains three-for-three when it comes to No. 1 sports comedies, but the anemic opening of his latest film has some wondering whether he's losing his touch. His basketball send-up Semi-Pro took in $15.3 million, according to studio estimates from Nielsen EDI.