&#39;Exorcist&#39; Scares Up No. 1 Slot at Box Office
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&quot;Exorcist: The Beginning,&quot; a film that had to be re-shot with a new director because the first version was not scary enough, led the North American box office over the
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LOS ANGELES: Supernatural thriller The Forgotten soared to the top of the US box office over the weekend with better-than-expected ticket sales during a worse-than-expected seasonal slump.
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The sci-fi thriller "Jumper" leaped to the No. 1 spot at the North American box office on Sunday as moviegoers ignored critics' dire warnings for a second weekend.
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Poor Renny Harlin. When the director&#39;s name appeared on the screen at the end of Exorcist: The Beginning, the friend we dragged along to see this dog&#39;s breakfast exclaimed, &quot;That explains everything.&quot; ...
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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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It wasn&#39;t as bad as I thought it would be, but neither is it a great horror movie -- definitely not of the stature of David Friedkin&#39;s &quot;The Exorcist,&quot; the film that started it all.
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Rock star Rob Zombie&#39;s reworking of  the classic slasher movie &quot;Halloween&quot; scared up record business  at the North American box office during the Labor Day holiday  weekend, while overall ticket sales for the lucrative summer  movie going period reached a new high.
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It&#39;s that spooky time of year when movies with even the mildest of scares have a great chance of breaking out at the box office.
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LOS ANGELES - The backstory of Exorcist: The Beginning is enough to make your head spin. Hollywood is fond of remakes, but this prequel  the fourth in the series of Exorcist films  was discarded and remade before it was even released.
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Nicholas Cage received the best opening weekend in his career so far with the number one box office movie in North America, Ghost Rider.  With over $44 million, this number one hit is the biggest blockbuster opening this year.  Coming in at numb...
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&quot;Resident Evil: Apocalypse&quot; climbed over a pile of zombie bodies and came out on top of the box office with $23 million.
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Vampires put the bite on the box office as "30 Days of Night," a fright flick about bloodsuckers on the prowl in Alaska, debuted at the top of the box-office chart with $16 million.
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The horror prequel Exorcist: The Beginning grabbed possession of the top box-office spot with an estimated $18.1 million. The dude comedy Without a Paddle drifted in second with $13.
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LOS ANGELES &quot;The Grudge&quot; made a match with moviegoers, taking the number-one spot at the box office. The Sarah Michelle Gellar horror flick took in 40 (m) million dollars ahead of Halloween.
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Director Renny Harlin's The Exorcist: The Beginning opened   Friday to hellish buzz and several hellish reviews.
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November 1, 2004 -- Movie fans in the mood for some Halloween frights over the weekend continued to hold their &quot;Grudge&quot; at the box office.
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In theaters: THE EXORCIST: THE BEGINNING, directed by Renny Harlin, written by Alexi Hawley, 114 minutes, rated R. So it wasn&#39;t meant to be, but here it is and there you have it.