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BOO! I hope stateside readers are enjoying late night Halloween festivities (I do so love this holiday) but if you're elsewhere on a slow night, get caught up on ten highlights from the month that was.


Precious Bleeds Over yes, it's fantastic. But how pure can our reactions be after 10 months of hype?
Tilda in the Flesh two pieces on Tilda Swinton at the New Yorker Festival
Directors of the Decade Robert kicked off an exciting retrospective column with Martin Scorsese. Who will he spotlight next?
First and Last: TV Glenn hosted the liveliest comment guessing game yet for this series. While I finally stumped y'all after fifty-plus tries.
Paris is Burning Matt's new series "Screen Queens" covered one of the best documentaries of past 20 years

Overheard at the Cinema lots of fun comments on Wild Things opening weekend
From London... Cross the Atlantic, Dave saw a ton of movies and kept reporting back. We thank him v. much
On Amelia You can rub wooden actors together but you're not going to spark a fire
Whip It Vodcast Katey and I had a ball watching this. Too bad there won't be a sequel given how much more one could do with that material
Mariel's (Muriel's) Lament JA wrote a fine piece on Muriel's Wedding. 15 years later the Aussie comedy still resonates

What's next?
Who knows. But thinks will get starrier and crazier as Oscar campaigns heat up. November topics will include but are not limited to: Bogart, Broken Embraces, Colbert, Cruz, Curtis, DiCaprio, Eastwood, Fanning, Gyllenhaal, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Holbrook, Hudson, Leigh, Mackie, McAvoy, McGregor, The Messenger, Nine, The Princess and the Frog, Red Cliff, The Road, Streep and Up.
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1. "Michael Jackson's This Is It" ($7.9 million)
2. "Paranormal Activity" ($6.1 million)
3. "Law Abiding Citizen" ($2.42 million)
4. "Couples Retreat" ($2.38 million)
5. "Where The Wild Things Are" ($1.9 million)

There are ghosts and serial killers aplenty in movie theaters this Halloween weekend, but it appears that moviegoers are looking to celebrate the haunted festivities with none other than Michael Jackson.

The deceased pop sensation is the subject of "Michael Jackson's This Is It," the Sony distributed documentary chronicling Jackson's rehearsals for a massive concert series that never came to pass due to his death. "This Is It" unsurprisingly wound up in first place on Friday evening with $7.9 million, which brings the film's cumulative total to $19.1 million since its opening last Wednesday — but the Jackson documentary hasn't moonwalked all the way to the bank, certainly not in the way that Sony and concert promoter AEG had expected.

Deadline Hollywood Daily has an extensive report on the relatively disappointing financial performance of "This Is It," stating that AEG predicted that the film would rake in "$250 million in its first 5 days." That outcome is extremely unlikely now with "This Is It" slated for a cumulative $32.5 million by Sunday's end, despite overall positive reviews. Still, as the film is currently labeled as a two-week limited engagement, this level of success might be it for "This Is It."

Looking towards the horrifying corner of the box office, it is once again "Paranormal Activity" that stands atop its competitors. The Oren Peli-directed ghost thriller finished in second place on Friday night with $6.1 million, a result of Paramount plugging the film into 400 more theaters this weekend.

The film isn't likely to surpass the similar success of "The Blair Witch Project," as Paramount Vice Chairman Rob Moore told Deadline Hollywood that "[it] will still take a pretty good run from here to get there." Nonetheless, "Paranormal Activity" has had an extraordinary amount of success thus far with a cumulative of $74.4 million based on a shoestring budget of $15,000.

The remainder of Friday's top five consisted of a close race for third between "Law Abiding Citizen" and "Couples Retreat" at $2.42 million and $2.38 million respectively, while "Where The Wild Things Are" finished in fifth place at $1.9 million.

Are you celebrating Halloween at the movie theaters or elsewhere this year? Let us know your plans in the comments section or on Twitter!

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...dressing up as for Halloween tonight? Is it movie related?* If you live outside of a costume-party zone, what would you dress up as on the big night?

If you e-mail me a photo, I will do a post of movie-related costume photos as worn by Film Experience readers. Don't be shy!

(*Mine is not. I have been roped into going as an evil faerie. There are 7 of us but I think we look more like alien bugs. Oops) Nessun tag per questo post.

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I hope you enjoyed this evening's "Ulalume: Howling at New Moon" Halloween special on MTV. I hope you also enjoyed our exclusive clip from "New Moon." The one that "Twilight" stars Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner introduced during the show. For those of you who may have missed it -- and for those who just want to watch it again... and again and again and again and again -- we've got it here for you now. Right below this text, in fact. I somehow doubt you've even read this far. Enjoy, and HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO ALL OF YOU! HAVE A FUN, SAFE WEEKEND!

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"Kick-Ass" actress Chloe Moretz was among those tweeting good thoughts to Nicolas Cage and his family following the death of his father August Coppola this week. A literature professor and the brother of director Francis Ford Coppola, he reportedly died following a heart attack on Tuesday.

In other tweets, David Slade slipped a fresh image into his Twitter feed of actor Xavier Samuel from "Eclipse," which he says is the first look at Samuel's character Riley in the film. A couple of "Twilight" actors tweeted last minute contemplations over their Halloween costumes, while Edgar Wright may be giving up altogether and Russell Brand decried jack-o-lanterns as symbols for the season. Check out what they all had to say after the jump. It's in the Twitter-Wood report for October 30, 2009.

Twitter Pic of the Day:
@DAVID_A_SLADE http://twitpic.com/nhqyd - In celebration of wrap first Eclipse cast photo Xavier Samuels between set ups as Riley Biers.
-David Slade, Director ("30 Days of Night," "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse")

@cserratos Halloween is my favorite holiday. So I have a couple costumes. Wild thing. Velma Kelly. Hindu Goddess. Sailor Moon...and the classic Witch.
-Christian Serratos, Actress ("Twilight," "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse")

@Jamiebower Okay kids. Need you to help me decied. Its a toss up between. Edward Scissorhands, a mouse or skeleton jump suit? Help. We don't have long x
-Jamie Campbell Bower, Actor ("RocknRolla," "The Twilight Saga: New Moon")

@edgarwright I am too busy with work to get a Halloween outfit together. I may have to resurrect an old standby and go as Eddie Yorque.
-Edgar Wright, Director ("Shaun of the Dead," "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World")

@tinypinkpoodle God bless Nicholas Cages father and all the Copolas rest in piece god bless
-Chloe Moretz, Actress ("Kick-Ass," "Diary of a Wimpy Kid")

@freddurst Just accidentally walked out of my bfast spot and forgot to pay the check. Oops!! I.O.U ??
-Fred Durst, Actor/Director/Musician ("The Education of Charlie Banks," "The Longshots")

@ParisHilton http://twitpic.com/ngwcp - Found the Perfect Pumpkin! Yay!
-Paris Hilton, Actress ("The Hottie and the Nottie," "House of Wax")

@paul_mcguigan Writer Grant Morrison and I are working on a very interesting project based in Scotland. This man is genius.
-Paul McGuigan, Director ("Lucky Number Slevin," "Push")

@rustyrockets Halloween?Skeletons and pumpkins aren't actually scary,just bone scaffold and a vegetable.You might as well be scared of potatoes and hair.
-Russell Brand, Actor ("Forgetting Sarah Marshall," "Get Him to the Greek")

Don’t forget to follow @MTVMoviesBlog on Twitter for all the latest updates and colorful commentary from the world of movies.

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Sure, this weekend's premiere of "Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day" features the return of Connor and Murphy McManus, Il Duce and the rest of Boston's favorite movie vigilantes, but when I asked around for some questions to ask the film's director and stars when they dropped by Movies Blog HQ, there was one element from the first film everyone was asking about for the sequel: the rope.

Fans of the original film will no doubt recall the brothers' oft-quoted, obscenity-laden debate regarding the merits of bringing rope to their showdown with a mob boss—and according to director Troy Duffy and stars Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus and Billy Connolly, the rope is indeed back by popular demand.

"The rope will make a reappearance," laughed Duffy.

"When we showed it in Boston, there was a huge roar from the audience," added Connolly.

"The rope comes back... in a very funny way," teased Reedus.

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A new version of the classic film “A Christmas Carol” is headed to theaters on Nov. 6, 2009. This time, Jim Carrey takes center stage as the iconic Ebenezer Scrooge, as well as all three ghosts!

The CG-animated movie is rated G, and also features the voices of Robin Wright Penn, Colin Firth, Gary Oldman and Michael J. Fox. Watch the trailer here.

Here are a few photos of Carrey and director-writer Robert Zemeckis on their “train tour” at Grand Central Station to promote the film. Looks like a blast!

By the way, Carrey has gained a few pounds for his role as Curly in the upcoming movie from Bobby Farrelly, “The Three Stooges,” scheduled for a 2010 release. He doesn’t look quite big enough yet!

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