"Halloween" brings summer to record-breaking close
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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.
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Costume shops rake it in during September and October. It's the rest of the year that's tricky.
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Driven by corporate buyouts, strong profit reports and stock buybacks, the market closed at a record high.
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Stubborn clouds and early showers didn&#039;t deter thousands of Fourth of July revelers from turning out for fireworks, the Boston Pops and Aerosmith.
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It's the second-largest decorating holiday after Christmas and Hanukkah and merchants are catering to the Halloween crowd with a proliferation of high-tech wizardry -- voice-activated skeletons, smog machines and gory bleeding goblins.
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The film has made record-breaking box office collections.
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LOS ANGELES  - Halloween is Sunday, and  Hollywood is ready for another weekend of fright.
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The summer box office season officially wraps this Labor Day holiday weekend,
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Summer films rely on creative campaigns. Here's the best of the season so far
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LOS ANGELES  - From menacing Spartan warriors to chipper singing chipmunks, 2007's boxoffice attractions spanned the gamut. Following a heated summer, there was a cooling-off spell during the fall, but the year still saw the domestic box office gross climb to a record $9.62 billion.
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Like carnival barkers  whipping the crowd into a frenzy in order to lure them into the  big top, Hollywood pulled out all the superlatives this summer.
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It's shaping up to be one of the warmest years on record.
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Arts & entertainment: New York monster movie from Lost's JJ Abrams opens in top spot with record-breaking haul
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LOS ANGELES - Summer at movie theaters was a true underdog story for Michael Moore and a gang of dodgeball dimwits, who helped propel Hollywood to another season of record revenue, though the number of moviegoers fell slightly.    Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" became the first documentary to top the $100 million mark, while Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn's goofy comedy "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story" was another surprise $100 million hit...
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If you're trying to make your Fourth of July last three days or more, you're not alone. In cars and on planes, millions of Americans are on vacation this week as the nation takes advantage of a midweek holiday. More than 41 million Americans will travel at least 50 miles from their homes some time this week &#151; a new record for Independence Day travel &#151; despite heightened security because of failed car bombings in Britain.
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Volunteers with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation have capped a record-breaking oyster planting season by releasing hundreds of thousands of baby oysters at a specially prepared habitat in the South River.
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Michael Myers sliced and  diced his way to the top of the heap at the Labor Day Holiday  weekend box office in North America, as director Rob Zombie&#39;s  &quot;Halloween&quot; update earned $30.59 million during its first four  days, according to final data issued Tuesday.