Animated animal comedy "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" galloped to the top of the North American weekend box office, final industry figures showed Monday. The Dreamworks movie, with Hollywood stars such as Ben Stiller and Chris Rock providing the voices for the wise-cracking zoo animals, earned 63.1 million dollars in its premier weekend, according to Exhibitor Relations. The family-friendly sequel ...

Disney's clean-cut "High School Musical 3: Senior Year" kept would-be porn stars Zack and Miri at bay to keep its top slot on the North American weekend earnings list, final industry figures showed Monday. The preteen-targeting sing-along earned 15 million dollars in weekend ticket sales -- paltry for the top earner, in a weekend that saw the overall box office ...

The country might be in the midst of the worst recession in ages, but things are looking positively Clintonian at the box office. Last weekend High School Musical 3 and Saw V grossed a combined $73 million. Yowsers! While there are only three wide releases coming to theaters this weekend (one being Changeling, which opened here in New York last ...

Halloween is almost upon us - and with it the season of scary movies. Some of them will be frightening in a psychologically complex and delicately structured way. Some will be bloody and unrelentingly stab-filled (or saw-filled, if you can't stab someone with a saw). And others still will be the traditional Halloween date movie. Molly Hartley - and the hunting ...