The undead of *Resident Evil* still have plenty of life in them.
Sony Screen Gems *Resident Evil: Extinction,* with Milla Jovovich again fighting flesh-hungry zombies in the third installment based on the video game, opened as the No. 1 weekend flick with $24 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.

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The critically acclaimed Western ‘3:10 to Yuma’ outgunned the fright fest ‘Halloween’ to become the weekend’s top box office draw.

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Ah, air conditioning… 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.

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Exiting The Bourne Ultimatum at a multiplex here, moviegoer Connie Jasper utters an eight-word movie review that sums up how Hollywood managed to set a summertime box-office record.
‘It was way better than the first two,’ she says of the third installment of the thriller series.

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Sony Pictures’ coming-of-age comedy “Superbad” continued to be the box office leader in North America this weekend, taking in an estimated 18 million dollars in ticket sales over the three-day period, according to preliminary figures released Sunday.

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Hollywood movie studios on Monday eyed a $4 billion summer record at U.S. and Canadian box offices after this weekend’s strong opening for teen sex comedy “Superbad” and other recent films that topped forecasts.
“Superbad” opened at No. 1 with final domestic ticket sales of $33 million, up about 6 percent from Sunday’s estimated $31.2 […]

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“Superbad” was super-good at the box office, proving that a no-name cast could hold its own amid A-list summer blockbusters.
The teen comedy from Sony, the misadventures of two high school buddies trying to score booze, took in $31.2 million (€23.19 million) to debut as the weekend’s No. 1 movie, according to studio estimates Sunday.

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Hapless martial arts hero Jackie Chan knocked amnesiac assassin Jason Bourne out of the top spot at the box office this weekend.
“Rush Hour 3,” the buddy film starring Chan and Chris Tucker that comes six years after the duo’s last romp, grossed $50.2 million in its first weekend at U.S. and Canadian theaters.

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During the past couple of weeks, Hollywood has watched as a couple of movies that most expected to open in the $50 million range shot up to the $70 million mark.
First, 20th Century Fox’s “The Simpsons Movie” opened on the weekend of July 27 to $74 million. The following weekend, Universal Pictures’ “The Bourne Ultimatum” […]

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“The Simpsons Movie” dominated the international market for the second consecutive weekend, grossing an estimated $47.3 million from 6,600 screens in 75 markets and pushing its overseas box-office total to $187 million and $315.6 million worldwide.
The weekend’s top five performers were the same titles as last weekend’s, although “Transformers” supplanted “Harry Potter and the […]

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The amnesiac assassin Jason Bourne is back, and this time he clobbered Homer Simpson on his way to scoring the biggest film opening ever for the month of August.
“The Bourne Ultimatum,” the third movie in the espionage action series starring Matt Damon as a one-time CIA hit man searching for his past, grossed $70.2 million […]

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