Horror movie tops North America box office
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Horror thriller &quot;Exorcist: The Beginning,&quot; which took a twisted route to the theater, debuted in first place at the weekend&#39;s North America box office, final studio figures showed Monday.
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LOS ANGELES - The undead came alive once more as &quot;Resident Evil: Apocalypse&quot; debuted at No. 1 at the box office, bringing in $23 million.
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&quot;Resident Evil: Apocalypse&quot; climbed over a pile of zombie bodies and came out on top of the box office with $23 million.
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The demon thriller &quot;Exorcist: The Beginning&quot; debuted at No. 1 with $18.1 million, displacing &quot;Alien vs. Predator,&quot; which tumbled from the top spot to No.
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The first fall weekend  is sometimes a surprise at the North American box office.
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Following are the top 10 movies at  the North American box office for the three-day weekend  beginning March 9, led by the new release "300," according to  studio estimates released on Sunday.
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LOS ANGELES  - The first fall weekend   is sometimes a surprise at the North American box office.
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Following are the top 10  films at the North American box office for the weekend  beginning September 7, led by the new release "3:10 to Yuma,"  according to estimates compiled on Sunday by Reuters.
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Movie-goers showed that they weren't afraid of the "Boogeyman," pushing the horror flick to the top of the weekend box office with a &#36;19.5 million debut.
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Supernatural thriller "The  Forgotten" soared to the top of the U.S. box office over the  weekend with better-than-expected ticket sales during a  worse-than-usual seasonal slump.
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"Resident Evil: Apocalypse" climbed over a pile of zombie bodies and came out on top of the box office with &#36;23 million.
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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 Labor Day holiday weekend, while overall ticket sales for the lucrative summer movie going period reached a new high.
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Despite getting bad reviews from critics, the revamped horror flick, &#39;Exorcist: The Beginning,&#39; was the top movie this week, grossing a total of 18.
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"The Grudge," a low-budget horror  movie starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, delivered an additional  shock on Sunday by selling $40 million worth of tickets in its  first three days at the North American box office, doubling the  expectations of its distributor.
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The devil possessed the weekend box office as the prequel &quot;Exorcist: The Beginning&quot; debuted at No. 1 with $18.1 million.
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The critically acclaimed Western "3:10 to Yuma" outgunned the fright fest "Halloween" to become the weekend's top box office draw.  The remake from Lionsgate took in $14.1 million from Friday through Sunday according to studio estimates...
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North American box-office performance as of Sunday for Oscar best-picture nominees: