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Sony successfully "deneuralized" moviegoers after a five-year wait since their first encounter with the secret agency that protects the earth from the scum of the universe. Will SmithSteven SpielbergAdam SandlerTom CruiseMatt DamonBen AffleckJet Li

Landing at No. 13 in its 10th weekend, Spider-Man snared $2,204,636 at 1,502 theaters, down a modest 29%. In the process, the webbed wonder reached a new milestone—one that only four other pictures have in the history of the box office.

Don't let anyone knock the delightfully warm and funny Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood as a chick flick—a term that sneers at any movie with more than two women and a character that expresses emotion—and don't let the Oprah-esque title fool you: its strong performances are rooted in a universal theme.

Best Picture winner A Beautiful Mind bested the competition again by topping the VHS and DVD rentals chart for the week ending June 30, according to the Video Software Dealers Association. Ron HowardRidley ScottSean PennBilly Bob ThorntonHalle Berry

Men in Black 2 bagged an estimated $18,400,000 at 3,557 theaters and 6,000 screens on Wednesday, the third highest gross that day has ever seen behind Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace ($28,542,349) and Jurassic Park III ($19,024,360).

All musical roads lead to "Nellyville" for the week ending June 30.

Where's a Neuralizer when you need one? Can somebody please "flashy-thing" me?

Mr. Deeds inherited a box office fortune over the weekend ending June 30. Adam SandlerTom Cruise

Disney's latest animated feature Lilo & Stitch is a story about a monster and a little girl who, despite some of their destructive tendencies, learn the value of family.

I went to see Mr. Deeds with very little expectation and no preconceptions of what it ought to be. I knew it was a remake of Frank Capra's 1936 picture Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, which I had not seen. Nor am I a big Adam Sandler fan. The ads show Deeds as a straight comedy, featuring juvenile jokes and slap-stick comedy. Really, though, it is a pleasant romantic comedy; a story of a man who, in the course of inheriting $40 billion, finds his one true love.

Disney's Lilo & Stitch snatched $55,570,116 in its first week to pull out a victory over Minority Report, which had beat it by a narrow $416,913 margin in a heated battle during the weekend ending June 23.

Extending his reign to five weeks, Eminem's "The Eminem Show" was on top of the album sales chart for the week ending June 23, according to SoundScan.

Black Hawk Down faced an onslaught of six new releases—ranging from modest hits to duds—yet stayed firmly entrenched atop the VHS and DVD rentals chart for the week ending June 23, according to the Video Software Dealers Association. Ridley ScottBilly Bob ThorntonHalle BerrySean PennMeg RyanHugh JackmanJim Carrey

Though Minority Report eked out a victory over the weekend by $416,913, Lilo & Stitch may win the box office war if Monday's grosses are any indication. Tom Cruise

Tom Cruise learned that the system isn't perfect not just as part of the plotline for Minority Report but in the real world as well. The Pre-Cogs had predicted that the Steven Spielberg-helmed sci-fi thriller would make a box office killing, handily topping the chart this weekend. Matt DamonBen AffleckNicolas CageSandra BullockGeorge Lucas

Monsters, Inc. has snuck back into the closet and under the bed. Guy PearceWes AndersonEthan Hawke

It is 2054 and murder has become a thing of the past in Washington, D.C., thanks to the capital's Precrime police bureau, which is ending its preliminary six-year pilot phase and is awaiting the expansion of the program to the rest of the country. The unit is headed by veteran police captain John Anderton (Tom Cruise) and works like a well-oiled machine waiting for its three "pre-cogs" Agatha, Arthur, and Dashiell — a nod to authors Christie, Doyle, and Hammett — to envision a murder and alert the squad which then rushes to the scene of the impending crime, stops it, and places the would-be perpetrator in eternal suspended animation. The system, everyone agrees, is "perfect." At least until Anderton is framed for a future crime and must evade his own police unit and stop himself from committing the crime.

On technically the first weekend of summer, audiences will flock to see two movies on the sci-fi tip about characters on the run—superstar Tom Cruise in Steven Spielberg's Minority Report and mischievous alien mutant Stitch in Disney's Lilo & Stitch. Nicolas CageJohn Woo

Black Hawk Down landed atop the VHS and DVD rentals chart for the week ending June 16, according to the Video Software Dealers Association. Ridley ScottBilly Bob ThorntonHalle BerryMeg RyanHugh JackmanTom Cruise

Consumers couldn't do without Eminem for the fourth week in a row as "The Eminem Show" topped the album sales chart for the week ending June 16, according to SoundScan.