'Ant-Man' works his way to top for 2nd weekend in row

DON'T DOUBT the "Ant-Man."

The diminutive superhero finished first again at the box office, narrowly beating out "Pixels," $24.8 million to $24 million.

Critics crushed "Pixels," which combined two things reviewers usually hate: video games and Adam Sandler. An estimated 62 percent of "Pixels" goers were under 25.

Age or IQ?

Holdovers "Minions" and "Trainwreck" took the third and fourth spots with $22.1 million and $17.3 million, respectively.

The R-rated boxing drama "Southpaw" surpassed expectations and finished fifth with a $16.5 million opening.

"Paper Towns," an adaptation of John Green's coming-of-age novel, opened in sixth place with $12.5 million. According to exit polls, 71 percent of the "Paper Towns" audience was female and 78 percent were under age 25.

Gosh, we hope the people over 25 were taking their daughters.

British newspaper

The Mail on Sunday

said it has uncovered a major royal security breach by using an inexpensive app to track

Prince William

's air-rescue ambulance while it is in the air.

The app (selling for around $4.65) allowed The Mail to keep close track of William as he flew in his capacity as a private pilot with East Anglian Air Ambulance, in eastern England.

It said the app allowed its journalists to pinpoint where William was planning to land the air ambulance helicopter.

It published photos appearing to show William's helicopter landing and of the prince himself talking to colleagues on the ground.

For a small extra fee, The Mail on Sunday said, users can receive a text alert every time the chopper William uses takes off on a mission.

We're not really sure what's more dangerous for the prince, the app or The Mail?

Air safety expert Christopher Yates told the Associated Press that it would be relatively easy to modify software so that a helicopter William was using couldn't be tracked, but he said that such a change may not be warranted.

"Most of the time when an air ambulance is called it appears on the scene, scoops someone up and disappears," he said. "If there were someone monitoring, the chance of them being there at the scene when he arrives is quite remote. And we don't know from one day to the next if he's going to be on board. So I don't see a problem."

The problem is, why should there be an app that tracks any medical chopper? The only people who need to know where the chopper is are the people on it and the hospital to which it's flying.

* A lawyer for

Motley Crue

frontman

Vince Neil

confirmed Friday that the rocker got back his social-media passwords in June after suing a consultant he hired and accusing her of posting online without his consent.

(Note: If you have to get your passwords back from somebody else, you should probably change them.)

* Poor 50 Cent is getting poorer by the day.

Soon he may call himself Case Quarter or Roosevelt Dime.

On Friday, a NYC jury found that the rapper must pay an additional $2 million in punitive damages to a woman featured in a sex tape posted to the Internet.

The decision came two weeks after they ordered 50 Cent to pay $5 million to Lastonia Leviston.

Leviston's invasion-of-privacy suit argues that 50 Cent posted online a crudely narrated 13-minute sex-tape she made with a boyfriend in 2008. In the video, he taunts rival rapper Rick Ross, who isn't in the video but has a child with Leviston.

* Which qualifies as more shocking: Snoop Dogg was arrested in Sweden Saturday on suspicion of using illegal drugs, or Katy Perry and John Mayer have broken up again?

* It's not quite Comic-Con, but VidCon was held this past weekend at the Anaheim Convention Center, in California.

What's VidCon, you ask?

The annual celebration of online video.

Huh?

Our first guess would be that there are a lot of really funny cats, but VidCon is serious business. This year it took up the entire convention center to accommodate more sessions aimed at content creators and executives with such titles as "Building Brand Campaigns Across Multiple Services" and "Community Driven Platforms: Fandom and Fan Strategy."

Despite online vids garnering billions of viewers - and dollars - online video content creators still say they are fighting for wider legitimacy.

Yeah, well so are newspapers. And we were here first.

- Daily News wire services

contributed to this report.