Ben Stiller's Tropic Thunder is ruling the box office for the second week

Hollywood’s comedy actor Ben Stiller is giving the finishing touch of Summer 2008. The actor’s latest movie, Tropic Thunder, is ruling the box office for the second consecutive week earning $16.1 million in ticket sales. Till now, the movie’s overall earning stands at $65.7 million. The campus comedy of Anna Faris, The House Bunny, is at the second spot grossing $15.1 million. Death Race starring Jason Statham opened at the third position collecting $ 12.4 million.

The summer champion, The Dark Knight collected $489. 2 million in six weeks but it failed to make any new record. The movie earned another $10.3 million earning the forth spot at the box office.

Tropic Thunder, which is an action comedy starring Ben Stiller, Jack Black and Robert Downey Jr., tells the story of four prima donna actors who were starring in a Vietnam War movie. Being tired of their attitude, the fed-up director leaves them in a jungle which is actually occupied by a drug producing gang.

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Hancock actor Will Smith take the top position on Forbes' List of best paid Hollywood actors

Will Smith, the rapper turned actor, made it to the top on Forbes’ List of highest paid Hollywood actors from June 2007 to June 2008. He earned $80 million in this period. Second place was acquired by Johnny Depp. He earned $72 million for his Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Will Smith is among those rare breed of actors who has 8 movies to his credits that earned $100 million. In total, male actors earned $487 million last year compared to $244.5 million by their female counter parts. For Will Smith’s heavy earning, male actors have taken the earning lead in Hollywood over females.

Let’s take a look at the other top earners:

• Third place was taken jointly by Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy each earning $55 million.
• Leonardo DiCaprio takes the fourth position with an earning of $45 million.
• Bruce Willis took the fifth position by dint of his resurrected John McClane in Live Free or Die Hard (2007).
• Comedy veteran Ben Stiller takes the sixth position earning $40 million.