Smokin‘: Those early estimates that pegged Pineapple Express for a superb $US10 million Wednesday opening may have turned out to be conservative. Another box-office observer sends word that the year’s biggest stoner comedy/Franco-sex-appeal testimonial in fact raked in $US12.15 million in its first day — a fairly staggering figure for an R-rated comedy. Bowing on a Wednesday. In the first week of August. The revised tracking also suggests Express has enough momentum to wrest box-office superiority from The Dark Knight this weekend, but we’re not so sure: The same tracking suggested The Mummy 3 would have similar success last weekend (it didn’t), and in any case, Express will need all of its five-day numbers — as much as $US45 million by some estimates — just to beat Dark Knight’s three-day figure. Check out tomorrow morning’s Defamer Attractions column, where we’ll call our official shot. [Fantasy Moguls]