When human-hating aliens disrupt earthbound cable-television signals, it's up to a monster-hunting superhero to take out the pesky extraterrestrials and ensure that television viewers are not deprived in Monsters Vs. Aliens. Also on DVD: Away We Go, The Brothers Bloom, Management, The Girlfriend Experience and Shrink.

This week Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen hits the theater and all of us who obsessively watched the show in the 80's rejoice. Or cry ourselves to sleep. In any case, I'm actually more excited about the video game version of the movie, and the fact that I just typed those words is a little terrifying.

Take a look at the box office chart below, ranking the top ten films of the year so far:

1. Star Trek - $232,557,467
2. Monsters vs. Aliens - $195,246,609

The film industry has a long history with trying different avenues to bring more viewers in and keep them in their theater seats. In the 1930s,

NEW YORK (AP) — "Angels & Demons" took the box office from "Star Trek" by earning $48 million in its first weekend of release.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Star Trek" beamed itself up to the top of the box office, earning $76.5 million in its opening weekend.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Audiences were in the mood for some fatal attraction action at the box office.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Zac Efron has taken the box office crown from his Disney teammate Miley Cyrus.

NEW YORK (AP) — "My PEANUT butter! ... my PEAnut butter! ... MYYYY peanut butter!" At full throttle, Will Arnett was pushing out one version, then another, of a line from his script.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Miley Cyrus and alter-ego Hannah Montana have double-teamed their way to another No. 1 box office debut.