`Dark Knight' stays on top with $26M

LOS ANGELES �

Batman was higher than Hollywood's newest bay window heads.

"The Dark Knight" took in $26 million to finish as the No. 1 picture for the fourth straight weekend, beating the stoner comedy "Pineapple Express," which opened in second

'Watchmen' Scenes Of War, Murder And Transformation Draws Thunderous Response At Comic-Con

SAN DIEGO — If day unitary of Comic-Con belonged to "Twilight," then the sec afternoon, still filled with scantily clad Leias and obese Batmen, was the realm of "Watchmen." A comic book holy grail for 3 decades, the Alan Moore/ Dave Gibbons masterpiece is the only if graphic novel ever to win skill fiction's honored Hugo Award and the only comic to appear in Time magazine's list of the greatest novels of the 20th century. This supposedly unfilmable flux of ism, theology and heroism has caused such names as Gilliam, Aronofsky and Greengrass to throw their custody up in disgust.

But on Friday — one year after