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'Halloween' breaks Labor Day record
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More from BusinessLOS ANGELES — "Halloween" may have come out on the wrong holiday and left critics cold, but Rob Zombie's remake of the classic bloodfest has smashed the all-time Labor Day weekend box office record.
With less suspense and more pure gore than the 1978 John Carpenter original, Zombie's "Halloween" earned $31 million, ahead of the 2005 Labor Day weekend record of $20.1 million set by "Transporter 2."
"Balls of Fury," one of the first major movies to focus on pingpong, ran third with $13.8 million. That placed it slightly behind "Superbad," the raunchy high school comedy that clocked in at $15.6 million.
The weekend's third major release, revenge drama "Death Sentence" with Kevin Bacon, ran eighth with $5.2 million.
The top 12 films earned $119.6 million, also a record.
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