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REUTERS -- ’Dark Knight’ still soars with $42.7M weekend
 "Bruce Wayne continues to add to his millions. "The Dark Knight," the blockbuster about the rich guy and his crime-fighting alter-ego, led the box office for the third weekend with $42.7 million. "The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" opened at No. 2 with $40.5 million. The top 10 movies at U.S. and Canadian theaters Friday through Sunday, followed by distribution studio, gross, number of theater locations, average receipts per location, total gross and number of weeks in release, as compiled Monday by Media By Numbers LLC are:
• The Dark Knight, $42,664,219
• The Mummy: Tomb Dragon Emperor, $40,457,770
• Step Brothers, $16,506,526
• Mamma Mia!, $12,615,515
• Journey to the Center of the Earth, $6,662,406
• Swing Vote, $6,422,186
• Hancock, $5,087,756
• WALL-E, 4,603,179
• The X-Files: I Want to Believe, $3,385,878
• Space Chimps, $2,720,177
• Hellboy II: The Golden Army, $2,488,525
• Wanted, $1,239,980
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The Iowa Barnstormers (6-10) finished out the 2008 regular season with a 64-41 loss to Tulsa in front of a record-setting crowd of 10,512 at Wellmark Blue Cross Blue Shield field Saturday night. The crowd came out in force to show their support. The Barnstormers end the 2008 campaign second in the af2 in average attendance, behind only the Spokane Shock. The first quarter started off with the teams matching each other score for score. Iowa struck first with a Jeff Glas field goal. Tulsa's quarterback John Fitzgerald hit Kellen Allen in the end zone for the first of two touchdowns. The Barnstormers kept pace with a second Jeff Glas field goal and a Joe Brannen touchdown strike to Robert Kilow. The score at the end of the first quarter was tied at 13. The Talons clawed their way to a 31 point second quarter scoring five times.