'Thunder' storms past 'Dark Knight'

The Dark Knight has finally fallen, but not before taking one more foe with him: George Lucas.

After more than a month atop the box office, the Batman sequel dropped to No. 2 over the weekend, falling to the R-rated spoof Tropic Thunder.

Thunder took in $26 million, according to studio estimates from box-office trackers Media By Numbers. The haul met most projections and was plenty to topple The Dark Knight, which dropped to second with $16.8 million.

The Dark Knight, though, still managed to hold off the animated Star Wars installment Clone Wars, which was third with $15.5 million, slightly below projections. And Knight's $471.5 million supplants Star Wars ($446.1 million) as the second-biggest film of all time.

"We've had an unbelievable run," says Dan Fellman of Warner Bros., which released both Knight and Clone. "I've talked to the Lucas folks, ...