&#39;Exorcist&#39; Scares Up No. 1 Slot at Box Office
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&quot;Exorcist: The Beginning,&quot; a film that had to be re-shot because the first version was not scary enough, led the North American box office over the weekend, as moviegoers
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The surprisingly strong  box office hit &quot;Halloween&quot; could score a second weekend as the  top movie in North America, despite an onslaught of violent  pictures that will siphon off male moviegoers.
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The fright film "The Messengers," about a city family that moves into a creepy haunted house in the country, debuted as the top weekend movie with $14.5 million in ticket sales.
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God vs. Satan cast out space creatures at the box office.
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LOS ANGELES &quot;The Grudge&quot; made a match with moviegoers, taking the number-one spot at the box office. The Sarah Michelle Gellar horror flick took in 40 (m) million dollars ahead of Halloween.
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&quot;Harry Potter and the Order of the  Phoenix&quot; whisked its way to No. 1 at movie box offices with  weekend ticket sales of $77.4 million and a five-day total of  just over $140 million, according to studio estimates on  Sunday.
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People used to joke about the so-called âExorcist Curseâ but according to The Associated Press, Renny Harlin, the director of the prequel version âExorcist: The Beginning,â which debuted as number 1 in theaters across the nation Friday, believes
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A new version of cult horror film Halloween tops the US box office, with ticket sales set to reach $30m (Â£15m).
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I don&#39;t suppose I was expecting much from this movie &#39;Exorcist: The Beginning&#39;, considering how unexceptional the other two &#39;Exorcist&#39; sequels were, but I didn&#39;t expect that it would make them suddenly seem like classics by comparison.
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The Grudge, a supernatural thriller about a curse that spreads like a plague, created an epidemic at the box office by scaring up $40 million in ticket sales.
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This prequel to 1973&#39;s horror classic &quot;The Exorcist&quot; finds a young Father Merrin (Skarsgard, filling the role played by Max Von Sydow in the original) facing off against demonic forces for the first time while performing missionary duties in Africa.
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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 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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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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Nicholas Cage received the best opening weekend in his career so far with the number one box office movie in North America, Ghost Rider.  With over $44 million, this number one hit is the biggest blockbuster opening this year.  Coming in at numb...
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"Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer" caught a wave of moviegoers to the No. 1 spot at the weekend North American box office, according to studio estimates as of Sunday morning.
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It&#39;s that spooky time of year when movies with even the mildest of scares have a great chance of breaking out at the box office.