Two super powered individuals went toe-to-toe at the box office, and the eventual winner proved brains beat brawn. The number 1 film this weekend is Lucy (read our review) with $44 million. The premise might be extremely far fetched, but something about this unconventional sci-fi flick from director Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita, The Professional) struck a chord with audiences.

Below is some news Gareth Edwards fans probably already know, but if you’re just a casual moviegoer, you may not even recognize his name. Edwards is the director of Legendary Pictures’ “Godzilla,” a movie that almost grossed $500 million worldwide and should probably crack that number when all is said and done (the movie is teetering just on the edge of hitting $200 million at home as well). This is an astonishing feat if you consider the only feature Edwards had made before this was the low-budget “Monsters,” which made all of $237,301 in 2010.

One of the best and most buzzed about movies of the year is still expanding in theaters across the country. That movie is Richard Linklater‘s Boyhood, the epic and amazing story told over 12 years with the same cast of characters. No matter how many people find, and fall in love with, Boyhood during its theatrical run, though many more will find it when it eventually hits the home market.