"Invincible" brings summer box office to close
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The summer box office season in  North America ended on an "Invincible" note during the U.S.  Labor Day holiday weekend as the Mark Wahlberg football movie  scored a second week at No. 1.
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The all-star caper film &quot;Ocean&#39;s  Thirteen&quot; 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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LOS ANGELES  - With what will likely be  the last "big" opening of the summer box office season, "Alien  vs. Predator" generated an impressive $38.29 million last  weekend, according to final numbers issued Monday.  The opening was all the more impressive considering that  individually the Fox franchises had pretty much run their  course at the box office.
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LOS ANGELES  - "Ocean's Twelve" ended  the three-week reign of "The Incredibles" at the foreign box  office over the weekend, pulling in an estimated $29 million  from 27 countries.
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In a summer when many of the studios' biggest bets failed to pay off, it was familiarity in the form of sequels and low-budget comedies that resonated with movie audiences.
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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.
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Hollywood attempted to  squeeze a few more dollars out of a record summer by launching  a handful of midrange movies that mostly came up short at the  North American box office during the weekend.
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"Pirates of the Caribbean:  Dead Man's Chest," Hollywood's newest billion-dollar baby,  ended its nine-week run atop the foreign box office Sunday,  replaced by another Disney smash, "Cars."
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When Disney's new  football movie "Invincible" opens in theaters on Friday, it  will carry the rare seal of approval from the NFL, which hasn't  partnered on a major motion picture in a decade.
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Considering their ongoing world domination at the box office, it&#39;s easy to conclude that superheroes are in fact all-powerful and invincible.
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Three new movies make U.S. debuts and one independent film, shark tale "Open Water," expands nationwide on Friday as the summer winds down to what should be a record box office haul fueled by hit sequels.
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Walt Disney Pictures' feel-good   football movie "Invincible" led the North American holiday box   office for a second weekend, ahead of new releases "Crank" and   "Wicker Man," according to studio estimates issued on Sunday.
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This summer is proving the apotheosis of the one-week blockbuster.
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"Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End" lost momentum but remained the No. 1 movie with $44.2 million in its second weekend, raising its domestic haul to $217.5 million.
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&quot;The Incredibles&quot; is simply the best. From Friday 5 to Sunday 7 November, its registered takings amounted to $70.7 million (Lm23.
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US summer box office takings surpass $4bn for the first time as comedy Superbad tops the chart.
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What was shaping up to be a Fantastic face off between two   summer blockbusters has turned out to be nothing more than a close   encounter of the studio kind.