Hancock (film) the United States and Canada, grossing $6.8 million. The film was widely released on July 2, 2008, expanding to 3,965 theaters. At the conclusion of the five-day weekend, "Hancock" took top placement at the box office in the United States and Canada, grossing an estimated $103.8 million. The film had the third-biggest opening 4th of July weekend after "Transformers" and "Spider-Man 2". "Hancock" was Will Smith's fifth film to open on a 4 July weekend and was his most successful opening to date. The film was also Smith's eighth film in a row to take top placement in the American
John D. Hancock allegorical horror film "Wolfen" (1981), which was a box office failure but has steadily built a cult reputation over the years. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Hancock directed acclaimed episodes of NBC's "Hill Street Blues" and CBS's "The Twilight Zone" (1985 series), the latter including an adaptation of Theodore Sturgeon's science-fantasy story "A Saucer of Loneliness". He also directed the prison drama "Weeds" (1987), starring Nick Nolte, and the holiday family film "Prancer" (1989), about an eight-year-old girl who discovers an injured reindeer she believes belongs to Santa Claus. In 1998, Hancock opened his production company FilmAcres in LaPorte, Indiana,