This should make for a nice birthday present for our man, WotW is holding strong at the box office:

War of the Worlds Earns $21.5M on Day 3
Paramount Pictures’ War of the Worlds, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Cruise, earned an estimated $21.5 million on its third day to push its domestic total to $57.2 million. The sci-fi thriller, budgeted at $132 million, is playing in 3,908 theaters.

The other newcomer, Martin Lawrence comedy Rebound, collected just $1.7 million from 2,464 theaters on its first day.
ComingSoon.net