The public's fascination with the idea of alien visitation continues to be evidenced this week as three alien/UFO movies occupy top-ten positions at the worldwide box-office.
Currently topping the charts, Transformers: Dark of the Moon has now taken a massive $557.3m. Meanwhile at #7, the Spielberg-produced Super 8 has pulled in $166.4m; and, at #9, the alien-themed comic book movie Green Lantern has managed a slightly less impressive haul of $143.0m. Naturally, these figures will continue to rise in the coming days and weeks. Indeed, due to staggered release schedules, Super 8 has yet to hit cinemas in at least 14 countries (including the UK, France, Spain, Mexico and Brazil), and Green Lantern has yet to arrive in at least 24 countries (including Italy, Germany and Japan).
In other news, Transformers producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura is to oversee the Hollywood adaptation of the 1970s video game, Space Invaders, which required the player simply to use their tanks to defend against an advancing alien hoard. This sounds almost as imaginative as the forthcoming board game adaptation, Battleship.
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