Science-fiction is back at the top of the box office with the superpower low-budget film "Chronicle" edging out Daniel Radcliffe's horror debut "The Woman in Black" with $22 million.

"Chronicle," starring Dane DeHaan, Alex Russell and Michael B. Jordan, edged "Black" by just a little more than $1 million, according to studio box office estimates.

Both displaced last week's champ, "The Grey," which lost nearly 53 percent of its box office take the week before, to finish in third with $9.3 million, according to The Numbers.

Both "Chronicle" and "Black" were pretty even when it came to their per-theater take, both hovering around $7,500 per screen. The film, which easily exceeded its budget of $12 million, was written by Max Landis and Josh Trank. It centers on a trio of high school boys who find themselves suddenly with special powers, and they document that through home video.

Critics and audiences generally liked "Chronicle," both with a more than 80 percent approval, according to Rotten Tomatoes. "The Woman in Black," based on the novel by Susan Hill, was not as liked, getting just a 62 percent thumbs up from critics, but liked by about 70 percent of audiences surveyed.

Twentieth Century Fox actually didn't have too high of hopes for the film, projecting it would make about $8 million this weekend, according to the Los Angeles Times. That would at least put the film on the track of being profitable. Instead, it generated more than $10 million in profit in its first week alone.

Sadly for "E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial" young star Drew Barrymore, no one was really interested in her whale rescue film "Big Miracle." That $40 million picture grabbed just $8.5 million at the box office, and will likely flop.