Saw IV Carves Up Weekend Box Office

The latest horror movie to top the box office, Saw IV debuted with killer numbers this weekend. (Photo courtesy Lionsgate)
If it's Halloween, it must be time for the Saw horror franchise to scare up the top spot at the box office.
The latest installment about sadistic serial killer Jigsaw, Saw IV, debuted this weekend and pulled in $32.1 million. That's about $1.5 million less than predecessor Saw III, and even further behind the top grosser in the series, 2005's Saw II, which opened with $31.7 million and finished with $87 million. Saw III took in $80.2 million overall.
In second place was Steve Carell's latest comedy, Dan in Real Life, opening with $12.1 million. The flick stars Carell as a widowed advice columnist who falls for his brother's girlfriend.
Last week's number one, vampire thriller 30 Days of Night, fell to third with $6.7 million, bringing its ten day total to $27.3 million.
Former number ones The Game Plan and Why Did I Get Married landed in fourth and fifth spots with $6.3 and $5.7 million respectively.
Rounding out the top ten were George Clooney's Michael Clayton with $5 million at number six, Ben and Casey Affleck's Gone Baby Gone in seventh with $3.9 million, The Comebacks in eighth with $3.45 million, Mark Wahlberg and Joaquin Phoenix in We Own the Night with $3.4 million in ninth and Tim Burton's the Nightmare Before Christmas in tenth with $3.35 million.
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