"Halloween" remake should scare up box office lead
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LOS ANGELES  - The calendar might say Labor Day, but holiday weekend moviegoers in North America are just as likely to be celebrating Halloween. Or, make that "Halloween," Rob Zombie's remake of the 1978 slasher movie.
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November 1, 2004 -- Movie fans in the mood for some Halloween frights over the weekend continued to hold their &quot;Grudge&quot; at the box office.
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A new &quot;Exorcist&quot; flick must have seemed like a good idea three years ago, with a director&#39;s cut of the original having just pulled in almost $40 million, a huge payday for a re-release.
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Sarah Michelle Gellarâs horror movie The Grudge has scooped $40 million box-office receipts in the Northern America, performing the third-biggest October opening ever, behind Scary Movie 3 ($48.
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Horror movie The Grudge kept its hold on the North American box office chart over the Halloween weekend, according to studio estimates.
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"Saw IV," the latest installment in the annual horror franchise, sliced and diced its competition at the weekend box office in North America, according to preliminary sales estimates issued on Saturday. The Halloween staple opened to $14.3 milli...
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The new low-budget thriller  "Boogeyman" haunted the No. 1 slot at the weekend box office in  North America on Sunday, a day when movie theaters will be  lucky to scare up much business in the face of competition from  the Super Bowl.
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The first fall weekend  is sometimes a surprise at the North American box office.
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LOS ANGELES  - Halloween is Sunday, and  Hollywood is ready for another weekend of fright.
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Moviegoers put a nail in the coffin of a dying horror boom this weekend, as âHostel: Part IIâ opened far behind the crime caper âOceanâs Thirteen.â
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LOS ANGELES  - Since the box office hit  rock bottom last weekend, there's no place to go but up. And  two films targeting very different audiences are looking to  take advantage of the usual seasonal slump this weekend.
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Did somebody blow a whistle and decide that mid-October should be some kind of ad hoc, free-floating film fest? Not really. Current movie-business dynamics are at work.
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The backstory of "Exorcist: The Beginning" is enough to make your head spin. Hollywood is fond of remakes, but this prequel &#151; the fourth in the series of "Exorcist" films &#151; was discarded and remade before it was even released.
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The "Fantastic Four" sequel was No. 1 at the box office, but should shareholders be happy about it?
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The retelling of the classic horror tale "Halloween" scared up $30.6 million over the Labor Day weekend, setting a record for the three days.
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Ghosts seem to be stalking the theatres last Friday. Both the releases Rakht and Hum Kaun Hain were supernatural thrillers with ghosts walking in and out of the frames unselfconsciously.
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Rock star Rob Zombie's reworking of the classic slasher movie "Halloween" scared up record business at the North American box office during the U.S. Labor Day holiday weekend, while overall ticket sales for the lucrative summer movie going period reached a new high.