The Martian continued to dominate at the box office over the Columbus Day weekend while the new releases both failed to make an impression, one in an especially costly manner.

The week after Comic Con there’s a ton of CW DCverse casting, the first look at X-Men: Apocalypse, the possible next target for Rambo and much more in this week’s News Shotgun.

Making a little bit more than the original and easily winning the weekend box office was Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2.

The epic animated adaptation of The Dark Knight Returns concludes this week along with a bunch of other new releases.

Pretty much bombing across the board were the new releases and Paranormal Activity 4 got absolutely 0 boost from the pre-Halloween weekend, letting Argo sweep in and take the number on spot in it’s third week out.

Despite it being Halloween season, Sinister was beaten by both the returning champ, Taken 2 and based on real life thriller, Argo.

Liam Neeson destroyed the box office this weekend, doubling the take of the original Taken, while Frankenweenie had one of the worst openings for Tim Burton.

There was finally some life at the box office this weekend, ironically from the undead hijinks of the monsters from Hotel Transylvania.