'Boogeyman' Big at Super Bowl-Affected Box Office
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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 demon thriller "Exorcist: The Beginning" opened as the No. 1 weekend movie with $18.2 million, displacing "Alien vs. Predator," which tumbled to No. 4 with $12.5 million, studio estimates showed.
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The new Mark Wahlberg football  drama "Invincible" lived up to its immodest name at the weekend  box office in North America but overall ticket sales resumed  their decline as the lucrative summer moviegoing period drew to  a close.
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The horror movie "The Messengers" opened at No. 1 at the weekend box office in North America as Sony Pictures scored again in its Super Bowl counterprogramming strategy, according to studio estimates issued on Sunday.
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For rabid fans of the New York Giants and New England Patriots, this Sunday's Super Bowl won't be just a game  -  it could be a health hazard
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A record 97.5 million Americans tuned  in to Sunday's upset victory by the New York Giants over the  New England Patriots, marking the biggest TV audience in Super  Bowl history and the second most-watched U.S. telecast ever.
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Comedy "Superbad" proved to be super good at North American box offices, holding onto the No. 1 slot for the second straight weekend and pushing summer ticket sales above $4 billion for the first time ever, according to studio estimates on Sunday.
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The all-star caper film "Ocean's Thirteen" made off with $37.1 million in North American ticket sales during its opening weekend to steal the No. 1 spot at the weekend box office, according to studio estimates on Sunday.
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By Bruce Horovitz  For all the hoopla about Super Bowl marketers and the gazillions of Web hits they were expecting off their pricey ads, reality appears to have stepped smack in the way.
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The Indianapolis Colts' rain-swept victory over the Chicago Bears averaged more than 93 million viewers on Sunday, making it the second most-watched Super Bowl and third most-watched U.S. telecast ever, Nielsen Media Research reported.
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Apparently movie fans are ready for some football...and little   else.
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Peyton Manning had a lot of witnesses to his soggy super win, with the estimated 93.2 million viewers representing the second most-watched Super Bowl broadcast ever.
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By David Bauder THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  NEW YORK -- As anticipated, the Super Bowl and "American Idol" overshadowed everything on television last week.
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Exorcist: The Beginning scared its way to the top of the American box office this weekend, surprising industry observers by taking a better than expected $18.
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God vs. Satan cast out space creatures at the box office.
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The gangster cartoon "Shark Tale" roughed up its rivals at the North American box office for a second weekend, while Billy Bob Thornton scored a touchdown at No. 2 with his new school football drama "Friday Night Lights," according to studio estimates issued on Sunday.
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Moviegoers are not following the  script written for them by the Hollywood studios. In a sign  that big-budget sequels may be losing their allure, North  American ticket sales for the first three big films of the  lucrative summer season have not kept pace with their  respective predecessors.