Halloween Box Office

The owls glide out of BoxOffice Mojo's Top Ten as horror/after-life features dominate. ...

Deadline Hollywood Daily has "The Guardians" hanging to the tenth spot.)

1. Saw VII 3D (Lionsgate) NEW [2,808 Theaters] -- Friday $11M, Estimated Weekend $28M)

2. Paranormal Activity 2 (Paramount) Week 2 [3,239 Theaters] -- Friday $6.4M (-68%), Estimated Weekend $18.5M, Estimated Cume $67.5M

3. Red (Summit) Week 4 [3,349 Theaters] -- Friday $3.4M, Estimated Weekend $9.5M, Estimated Cume $57.7M

4. Jackass 3D (Paramount) Week 3 [3,139 Theaters] -- Friday $3M, Estimated Weekend $8.7M, Estimated Cume $102M

5. Hereafter (Warner Bros) Week 3 [2,424 Theaters] -- Friday $2M, Estimated Weekend $6M, Estimated Cume $21.8M

6. The Social Network (Sony) Week 5 [2,767 Theaters] -- Friday $1.5M, Estimated Weekend $5M, Estimated Cume $80M

7. Secretariat (Disney) Week 4 [3,108 Theaters] -- Friday $1.5M, Estimated Cume $4.9M, Estimated Cume $44.7M

8. Life As We Know It (Warner Bros) Week 4 [2,860 Theaters] -- Friday $1.4M, Estimated Weekend $4.5M, Estimated Cume $44.2M

9. The Town (Warner Bros) Week 7 [1,608 Theaters] -- Friday $600K, Estimated Weekend $2M, Estimated Cume $87.5M

10. Legends Of The Guardians (Warner Bros) Week 6 [2,010 Theaters] -- Friday $550K, Estimated Weekend $2M, Estimated Cume $52.8M

Six days from now, "Megamind" makes its debut.

Update: The weekend finals have "The Guardians" at #11 (and a $52.6 million total.)

Downlist, "Alpha and Omega" stands at #17 and a $24.1 million total; "Toy Story 3" is still in 337 theatres collects $319,000 for a $413.9 million. And "Despicable Me" collects $245,000 in 335 theatres for a $247,845,000 take.

Animation marches on.