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With temperatures hitting 90 or more across most of the nation, movie theaters were the place to be on Labor Day, helping Hollywood establish a new box-office record for the holiday.
The weekend's top 12 movies, led by the Rob Zombie-directed Halloween remake, combined to gross $120 million Friday-Monday, up 22 percent from last year's end-of-summer blowout, Exhibitor Relations Co. estimated.
Booming Labor Day business pushed the overall summer 2007 box office past $4 billion—another record, Exhibitor Relations said.
Zombie's Halloween was the biggest of the weekend bunch, scaring up $31 million through Monday. Its Friday-Sunday take of $26.5 million was the most ever taken in during an opening weekend by one of Michael Myers' mad sprees, topping 1998's Halloween: H20 ($16.2 million).
While the latest Halloween stats were impressive, the film will have to impress for quite a while to match John Carpenter's 1978 original. Produced for about $325,000, the '78 Halloween made $47 million in a time when movie tickets cost, on average, $2 and change. It continues to stand as one of the most successful independent movies ever released.
Elsewhere, Superbad (second place, $12.5 million Friday-Sunday; $15.6 million Friday- Monday) lost its two-week hold on the number one spot, but all was not lost for the comedy hit, which hit $92.4 million overall.
The new Ping-Pong movie Balls of Fury (third place, $11.3 million Friday-Sunday; $14.3 million Friday-Monday), meanwhile, distinguished itself as arguably the biggest table-tennis flick of all time, unless you count Forrest Gump, which was really more of a movie with table tennis scenes in it.
The revenge thriller Death Sentence, the weekend's other major new release, helped Kevin Bacon pull a Charles Bronson but didn't do much at the box office—$4.2 million Friday-Sunday; $5.2 million Friday-Monday.
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With temperatures hitting 90 or more across most of the nation, movie theaters were the place to be on Labor Day, helping Hollywood establish a new box-office record for the holiday.
The weekend's top 12 movies, led by the Rob Zombie-directed Halloween remake, combined to gross $120 million Friday-Monday, up 22 percent from last year's end-of-summer blowout, Exhibitor Relations Co. estimated.
Booming Labor Day business pushed the overall summer 2007 box office past $4 billion—another record, Exhibitor Relations said.
Zombie's Halloween was the biggest of the weekend bunch, scaring up $31 million through Monday. Its Friday-Sunday take of $26.5 million was the most ever taken in during an opening weekend by one of Michael Myers' mad sprees, topping 1998's Halloween: H20 ($16.2 million).
While the latest Halloween stats were impressive, the film will have to impress for quite a while to match John Carpenter's 1978 original. Produced for about $325,000, the '78 Halloween made $47 million in a time when movie tickets cost, on average, $2 and change. It continues to stand as one of the most successful independent movies ever released.
Elsewhere, Superbad (second place, $12.5 million Friday-Sunday; $15.6 million Friday- Monday) lost its two-week hold on the number one spot, but all was not lost for the comedy hit, which hit $92.4 million overall.
The new Ping-Pong movie Balls of Fury (third place, $11.3 million Friday-Sunday; $14.3 million Friday-Monday), meanwhile, distinguished itself as arguably the biggest table-tennis flick of all time, unless you count Forrest Gump, which was really more of a movie with table tennis scenes in it.
The revenge thriller Death Sentence, the weekend's other major new release, helped Kevin Bacon pull a Charles Bronson but didn't do much at the box office—$4.2 million Friday-Sunday; $5.2 million Friday-Monday.
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