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Venom and James Bond went on a rampage at the box office and set records domestically and internationally, respectively. Venom: Let There Be Carnage, actor Andy Serkis’ third directing feature, surpassed all expectations and raked in a whopping $90.

Who won in the tight box office battle between Mortal Kombat and Demon Slayer? As Godzilla and Kong continue to duke it out against rivals in the overseas box office, Mortal Kombat, led by Cole Young (Lewis Tan) and Demon Slayer the Movie: Mugen Train (original title – Kimetsu no Yaiba: Mugen Ressha-Hen), fronted by Tanjiro Kamado (voiced by Zach Aguilar), fought for numbers one and two positions in the domestic chart. Mortal Kombat won this round in the domestic market.

After floundering with Alice: Through The looking Glass at the beginning of the month Disney is back at the helm after a spectacular $136. 2 million opening weekend for Finding Dory.

As the studios batten down the hatches and prepare for the category five storm of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, due out in theatres worldwide in two weeks, there were few new entries to the domestic and international markets. Warner Bros.

A spectre is haunting the Earth - the Spectre of James Bond. In its second week in theatres Sony’s latest Bond film added a hefty $117.

Halloween served up a scare for Hollywood, as a host of star-studded awards vehicles and the requisite horror thrillers all flopped at the domestic box office. Sandra Bullock, who plays the lead in and produced political passion project Our Brand is Crisis, saw the lowest wide release opening of her career with just $3.

It was a scary week in the North American market – and Halloween is not even here yet. Every single movie opening domestically flopped – and flopped badly.

Goosebumps, a horror-comedy based on the children’s book series and starring Jack Black, is the new domestic champ. The film grossed $23 million, stealing the top spot from the space epic The Martian, which, in its third week, grossed $21.

Warner Brothers knew that Pan, Joe Wright’s Peter Pan’s original story, was going to be a difficult sell but they probably did not expect the disappointment to be as big. Specifically that they would be beaten so hard by The Martian<i; as="" awards="" buzz.

Perhaps it was NASA’s announcement just a few days short of the debut – a pure coincidence according to the space agency – that its scientists had discovered evidence that water still flows in Mars’s valleys. It could have been also Ridley Scott’s direction, who at 77 and after a few misfires, seems to have found the rhythm of films such as Alien and Thelma and Louise, or the presence of Matt Damon, in the lead of the film as a modern day Robinson Crusoe who takes us on a journey into outer and also into his inner space.