According to the just-released figures over at Box Office Mojo Hero is leading this weekend's box office race by a healthy margin. Despite playing on nearly a thousand fewer screens than the week's other wide release - Anacondas, and who had the bright idea to put this thing on three thousand screens? Seriously, people, think about what you're doing - Hero drew $2.6 million more, and is sporting a per screen average more than double the number two film.

Yes, Miramax, you were right. American audiences will never come to see a subtitled Asian art film.