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Warner Bros./New Line’s redo “Friday the 13th” scared up the best opening ever for a horror movie in grossing an estimated $42.2 million from 3,105 theaters through Sunday.

These are 4-day numbers based on today's matinees... I don't know which is worse: that moviegoers are flocking to horrific Friday The 13th 2009 tonight because it's Friday the 13th. Or that they plan to see a machete-wielding psycho killer with a loved one on Valentines Day as well.

Yes, audiences were, in fact, just that into "He's Just Not That Into You." The star-studded romantic comedy won its opening weekend by a wide margin, grossing $27.5 million, according to Sunday's early estimates.

Four new releases hit North American multiplexes on Friday setting up a pair of cinematic fights. The main event sees rival franchise comedies go at it for the number one spot with He's Just Not That Into You targeting the date crowd and The Pink Panther 2 reaching out to...

Liam Neeson thriller grosses $9.5 million Friday -- Twentieth Century Fox's Liam Neeson action-thriller "Taken" grossed an estimated $9.5 million from 3,183 theaters at the Friday box office to score the best opening day ever for Super Bowl weekend.

Sony Pictures grabbed bragging rights for this weekend when Friday's North American grosses made its derivative sci-fi Underworld: Rise Of The Lycans and moronic comedy Paul Blart: Mall Cop Nos. 1 and 2 respectively at the box office.

Only two new releases hit the North American box office, but in the wake of Academy Award nominations, a handful of contenders take the opportunity to expand nationwide hoping Oscar nods can translate into extra cash. Sony unleashes its franchise thriller Underworld: Rise of the Lycans while Warner Bros. counters...

'Paul Blart' Does Part in Record MLK WeekendLed by an exceptional start for Paul Blart: Mall Cop and solid ones for My Bloody Valentine 3-D, Notorious and Hotel for Dogs, the weekend as a whole was not only a new Martin Luther King, Jr. high but the highest-grossing on record for the month of January.

'Notorious,' 'Bloody Valentine' finish 2nd, 3rd -- Sony’s Kevin James comedy “Paul Blart: Mall Cop” opened to No. 1 at the Friday box office, grossing an estimated $9.9 million from 3,144 runs as the long Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend got underway.

Four new films roll into theaters hoping to take advantage of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday which will give many a day off on Monday. R-rated fare leads the way with the horror remake My Bloody Valentine 3D and the hip-hop biopic Notorious being the big guns trying...