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Box Office Report: 'Super 8' Tops Friday with $12.2 Mil; No. 2 'X-Men' Grosses $8 Mil

UPDATE: "Hangover II" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" cross $200 million-mark.

Paramount’s Super 8 -- directed by J.J. Abrams and produced by Steven Spielberg -- topped the Friday box office with an estimated $12.2 million. The period sci-fi pic is now on course to win the weekend with a gross of $35 million.