This weekend’s boxoffice brings some supergood news and some superbad news.

The good news come, of course, from Superbad’s opening. The AP put out this story, which is about how Superbad transformed from a possible sleeper hit that could go far based on good word of mouth into simply a hit which is making tons of money right of the gate. It’s interesting, although there isn’t a clear answer.

Superbad’s opening is slightly larger than that of Knocked Up, which managed to earn around $31 million in it’s opening weekend. That doesn’t mean that Superbad’s total gross will match that Knocked Up, which was is very leggy movie and which will end it’s run with just a little less than $150 million. However it seems to be poised to at least match 40 year Old Virgin’s $109 million.

And the bad news come from every other single other movie opening this weekend. The Invasion only managed to muster $5,951,409, which is really bad considering that the movie stared Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig. The poorly advertised The Last legion made $2,746,312 and Frank Oz’s Death at a Funeral earned $1,282,973. The numbers for Death at a Funeral aren’t all that bad considering that the film was only playing on 260 theaters, but they weren’t good either.

The holdovers (aka, the “old” films) all experienced modest drops, with the exception of Rush Hour 3, which was coming off the heights of it’s opening weekend. Hairspray once again had the smallest drop in the top 10, and it passed the $100 million mark to boot. And Stardust only lost about 40% of it’s opening weekend gross, which is very good by today’s standards, but doesn’t seem to point to some truly great word of mouth fueled run.