''The Fog'' should clear the No. 1 spot at the box office
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Big frights should trump big stars at the box office this weekend, as the horror remake The Fog descends upon mulitplexes.
The first of the month’s pre-Halloween scary movies, The Fog — a remake of the 1979 John Carpenter film — features two rising TV stars, Smallville?s Tom Welling and Lost?s Maggie Grace. But the draw here will be the film?s genre, which should result in a No. 1 debut of around $15 million.
Meanwhile, Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst premiere their new romance, Cameron Crowe’s Elizabethtown, which will likely have to settle for second place with about $13 million.
Last week?s top film, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, will slip 25 percent from its $16 million opening to $12 million, while Keira Knightley’s new bounty-hunter thriller Domino should debut with about $11 million.
Rounding out the top five will be In Her Shoes, which should only drop 30 percent to $7 million. But next weekend?s debut of the video-game flick Doom should break Hollywood out of this mini-slump.
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