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Burbank, California—A ride on Disneyland's reimagined attraction, Pirates of the Caribbean, leaves one singing the Yo Ho song as never before. The overlay is, in a word, terrific. Johnny DeppGeoffrey RushOrlando BloomKeira KnightleyJerry BruckheimerGore VerbinskiAl Pacino

Not terrible, not terrific, Superman Returns lacks power. Newcomer Brandon Routh as the strapping, handsome hero is not the problem. Most everyone pretty much does their job, but director Bryan Singer's revival is one long slog through a movie we have seen before. Kate BosworthJames MarsdenFrank LangellaChristopher ReeveKevin SpaceyParker Posey

The World Cup and hot weather in Europe quieted the foreign box office further over the weekend. In part, it was a self-fulfilling prophecy as distributors avoided competition with the final World Cup rounds. Domestic dud Poseidon rose to the top with $9.1 million. Adam Sandler

It was business as usual for Adam Sandler as his latest comedy, Sony's Click, beamed in $40 million at 3,749 locations. Jim CarreyChristopher Walken

With its number one theatrical box office debut, Eight Below surprised analysts and won fans with an incredible story of the survival of sled dogs in the wilderness of Antarctica. The classic adventure movie premieres on DVD from Walt Disney Home Entertainment with an optional director's commentary by Hollywood producer and director Frank Marshall (Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Sixth Sense, The Bourne Identity), who talked with Box Office Mojo about making the motion picture and about making it in Tinseltown. Matt DamonSteven SpielbergClint EastwoodMartin ScorseseWalter HillGeorge LucasPaul WalkerChristian Bale

Burbank, California—Because motion pictures ought to have a heartbeat, and this summer's schedule lacks heat, here's a roundup of old pictures with some kind of summer sizzle. John TravoltaDennis Quaid

Click does not click. Surely, this vulgar humor speaks to Adam Sandler's fan base, but it doesn't for a moment succeed as a movie. It doesn't come close. Kate BeckinsaleJennifer CoolidgeChristopher WalkenBill Murray

The 2006 FIFA World Cup once again put a damper on international ticket sales. Countries with weekend games saw noticeable dips in grosses, whereas nations without them had relatively strong holds. Jennifer Aniston

Cars careened off track by the venerable Pixar's standards but still fended off some spicy competition from Nacho Libre and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. Jack BlackSandra BullockKeanu Reeves

The 1993 movie What's Eating Gilbert Grape is composed of golden pictures and subtle performances—with signs of director Lasse Hallström's gentle genius. Based on the novel by Peter Hedges, who wrote the screenplay, it is thoroughly original. Johnny DeppLeonardo DiCaprio

Before Johnny Depp rowed his band of gypsies into director Lasse Hallström's French village in Chocolat, or made a splash in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, and prior to Leonardo DiCaprio sailing the Titanic, both actors were landlocked in Mr. Hallstrom's What's Eating Gilbert Grape. Richard GereMartin ScorseseLasse HallströmJohnny DeppLeonardo DiCaprio

Burbank, California—A real movie star, Clark Gable, is the latest to be featured in a Signature Collection from the DVD masters at Warner Bros. The anthology—six movies and extras for $60—premieres on June 20. Liam Neeson

Box Office Mojo's Daily, Weekend and Weekly box office charts now feature estimated screen and showing counts. These charts show, in addition to the theater count (i.e., locations), the number of screens a movie is playing on as well as the number of times the movie was shown for the time period.

Neither as enchanted as Somewhere in Time nor as bittersweet as Heaven Can Wait, the love-is-timeless-themed The Lake House is a piece of melancholy. By way of what it is not—cynical and gross like most of today's romantic comedies—it evokes aspects of love. Keanu ReevesSandra Bullock

The arrival of the 2006 FIFA World Cup curbed international ticket sales drastically. In Europe, a fall of 50 percent was considered a good hold. In host nation Germany, 73 percent was the minimum drop in the Top 10. Asia suffered less but still took significant hits. In the Western hemisphere, however, since the games were over before 5:00 p.m., the Latin American markets were largely unaffected.

Pixar Animation Studios and distributor Buena Vista revved up their seventh blockbuster in a row as moviegoers got their kicks on Route 66 and lost interest in Remake 666 over the weekend. Robert Altman

The computer-animated Cars is a nontoxic glug of nostalgia pumped with bromides about aging and sportsmanship and textured with Pixar's refined animation. One of the year's most heavily hyped movies is stubbornly stuck in neutral. Owen WilsonMichael KeatonPaul NewmanJohn Lasseter

Burbank, California—Those ready for a break from summer movie theater crowds should check out double disc DVD editions of two fun, late Sixties pictures, both boosted by composer Burt Bacharach. Robert Redford

Twentieth Century Fox's marketing ploy to release The Omen on Tuesday—the superstitiously-significant "6-6-06" date—paid off. The horror picture, a remake of the 1976 thriller about a child who's the Antichrist, raked in $12,633,666 at 2,660 theaters.

Foreign and domestic audiences parted ways again. The Da Vinci Code, though faded stateside, maintained its strength overseas and claimed its third No. 1 weekend in a row. X-Men: The Last Stand has been softer internationally than in North America, and, instead of a shipwreck, Poseidon saw smooth sailing. Robin Williams