Unsurprisingly (and some would say appropriately), Michael Jackson's This Is It took the Halloween weekend #1 position, against few new openings and several genre holdovers.
Paranormal Activity continued its outstanding run, dropping just 21.6% from last week's #1 position and adding another $16.38M to its running tally of $84.62M, which now makes it the eighth most successful supernatural horror film ever made, ahead of Poltergeist (1982), and just behind The Amityville Horror (1979).
Where the Wild Things Are kicked up less of a rumpus, dropping 58% to #5, with $5.93M, for $62.65M after three weeks and Saw VI plummeted 62.7% to the #6 spot, with a weekend take of $5.27M and a two week total of $22.53M, safely putting it in profit (against an $11M budget), if not exactly setting the box-office on fire. Meanwhile, Astro Boy limped on with $3.46M in the #7 spot, a $11.31M two-week total meaning that its Hong Kong investors are unlikely to see a return on their $65M investment, however The Stepfather remake did slightly better, down 45% with $3.40M, for $24.74M.
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, took $2.80M at #9, down 51% on the same number of screens for a dismal two week total of $10.80M on a $40M budget. Last week's Amelia expanded by 250 theaters, but dropped 23% for $3M, at #10 and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and Zombieland, both held on with $2.74M and $2.62M respectively.
At #14, Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day opened on 68 screens, bringing in $546,687, and at #16 Halloween II expanded wider for the holiday, adding 992 sites, bringing in an additional $445,344. Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3-D brought in another $140,037 for a re-release total of $356,022 at #27, and at #50 Antichrist added eight screens and brought in $49,292 for a total of $156,318.
Of the remaining new releases, Ti West's The House of the Devil opened on three screens at #58, bringing in $8,398 per screen (second highest of the week), for a total of $25,195, and at #76 Jared Hess's Gentleman Broncos opened on two screens, with $5,751 each, for a total of $11,502.
Next week, Robert Zemeckis's A Christmas Carol opens, along with alien abduction drama The Fourth Kind, and Richard Kelly's The Box.
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