BEIJING, Sept. 4 (Xinhuanet) -- Rob Zombie's remake of John Carpenter's 1978 horror flick "Halloween" set a four-day Labor Day weekend record, piling dollars up like corpses on the way to a 31 million U.S. dollar take, slashing its way past 2005's "Transporter 2", which had held the top Labor Day mark at 20 million dollars.
Released by the Weinstein Co. and MGM, "Halloween" also topped the 29 million dollar Labor Day gross for 1999's "The Sixth Sense," which had been the biggest-grossing movie over the holiday. That blockbuster ghost story was in its fifth weekend when Labor Day came around.
Sony's comedy "Superbad," the No. 1 movie the previous two weekends, slipped to second place with 15.6 million dollars, raising its total to 92.4 million dollars.
"Balls of Fury," a comedy by Focus Features about a washed-up pingpong player recruited by the feds to help bring down a criminal mastermind (Christopher Walken), opened at No. 3 with 13.8 million dollars.
"Death Sentence," 20th Century Fox's revenge thriller starring Kevin Bacon, debuted at No. 8 with 5.2 million dollars.
Hollywood ended the summer season by setting a new overall record for Labor Day, with the top 12 movies taking in 119.6 million dollars, surpassing the previous high of 106.1 million dollars in 2003.
"'Halloween' was far beyond anything we've seen on Labor Day," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Media By Numbers. "It was just a perfect ending to a perfect summer. Hopefully, we can do this every year."
The industry finished the summer season with record receipts of 4.18 billion dollars since the first weekend in May.
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Released by the Weinstein Co. and MGM, "Halloween" also topped the 29 million dollar Labor Day gross for 1999's "The Sixth Sense," which had been the biggest-grossing movie over the holiday. That blockbuster ghost story was in its fifth weekend when Labor Day came around.
Sony's comedy "Superbad," the No. 1 movie the previous two weekends, slipped to second place with 15.6 million dollars, raising its total to 92.4 million dollars.
"Balls of Fury," a comedy by Focus Features about a washed-up pingpong player recruited by the feds to help bring down a criminal mastermind (Christopher Walken), opened at No. 3 with 13.8 million dollars.
"Death Sentence," 20th Century Fox's revenge thriller starring Kevin Bacon, debuted at No. 8 with 5.2 million dollars.
Hollywood ended the summer season by setting a new overall record for Labor Day, with the top 12 movies taking in 119.6 million dollars, surpassing the previous high of 106.1 million dollars in 2003.
"'Halloween' was far beyond anything we've seen on Labor Day," said Paul Dergarabedian, president of box-office tracker Media By Numbers. "It was just a perfect ending to a perfect summer. Hopefully, we can do this every year."
The industry finished the summer season with record receipts of 4.18 billion dollars since the first weekend in May.
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