Tropic Thunder tops American box office for third week!

Paramount Pictures comedy Tropic Thunder has topped the US box office for the third week in a row.

Paramount Pictures’ comedy Tropic Thunder has topped the US box office for the third week in a row.

The Ben Stiller helmed pic raked in $US11.5 million dollars from Friday to Sunday taking the US box office total to $US 83.8 million ($A97.92 million).

However the big news for the weekend was that The Dark Knight has now cracked the $US 500 million mark making it the second film in US box office history to have earned more than half a billion dollars. (The only other film to achieve this to date is James Cameron’s Titanic).