Super 8 Beams to Top of U.s. Box Office Chart

Director J.J. ABRAMS' new sci-fi mystery Super 8 has landed atop the U.S.box office chart with an opening weekend gross of $37 million .

The film, produced by Steven Spielberg, follows a group of budding teenage filmmakers who witness a train crash while making a home movie and subsequently begin to experience abnormal happenings in their small Ohio town.

Super 8's big debut bumps X-Men First Class into second place, which took an additional $25 million in its second week on release, boosting itsdomestic total to $98.9 million .

The Hangover Part II came in third place, while Kung Fu Panda 2 and Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides round out the new top five.