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With Halloween falling on a Friday, the box office practically lost one day out of three over the weekend, which explains why the overall box office was down 34% to $87 million. Coincidentally, the box office was down a nearly identical 35% from the same weekend last year. However, not only did Halloween cut into the box office, this time last year was the beginning of November, which is historically a much more lucrative month at the box office, and both of these are mitigating factors. Year-to-date, 2008 has brought in just under $7.79 billion, compared to 2007, which earned just over $7.79 billion during the same time period.

This week: Futurama releases another movie, Jack Black kicks some Kung Fu butt and William Hurt kisses a dude.

Kevin Smith is obsessed with sex, masturbation, genitals and cussing.

Plenty of new releases did fantastic business this week earning three of the top five spots, including taking first place. That new number one release was The Incredible Hulk, which earned $51.33 million from 2.15 million units sold.

Most of the new releases that charted on this week's sales chart also charted on this week's rental chart, and they even shared the same new number one film, The Incredible Hulk.

The 22nd title in a movie franchise that dates back to 1962 will have the series' largest opening weekend by a long shot.

It's a lopsided week for movie websites with one top-notch site and a list full of mostly average sites. Granted, the one top-notch site is, Quantum of Solace's Official Site, and it more than makes up for the average sites.