Superbad, Bourne Ultimatum and Rush Hour 3 all retained their box office grip this past week. This left new openers Mr. Bean’s Holiday, WAR and The Nanny Diaries in slumping rates (with Mr. Bean, scary enough, on the top) and placed last week’s premiere in even dire straights, as The Invasion plummeted 47% and The Last Legion 67%.

For the good news, Superbad’s word-of-mouth continues to mount into a giant, unstoppable box office snow ball, pushing its overall gross to $68 million (not bad for a $20 million flick). After several weeks on top, The Bourne Ultimatum kicks down its $110 million budget with an $180 million gross, while Rush Hour 3 races past the $100 million mark with $109M domestically - though with $140 million domestically and various cuts of the gross going to Tucker, Chan and Ratner, its hard to see how this picture will shape out altogether.

This week sees the long-awaited return of Michael Myers (no, not Austin Powers) to the theatres with Rob Zombie’s re-invention of Halloween. With a cast of awesome B-flick actors, including Malcolm McDowell, Brad Dourif, Udo Kief, Danny Trejo, Dee Wallace, Ken Foree, Clint Howard, Adrienne Barbeau and Zombie’s own Sheri Moon, this flick looks to have a killer cast. Classic cult horror will have to go up against new school, with Saw director James Wan’s Kevin Bacon revenge flick Death Sentence also opening in the wings. Superbad itself faces competion from the camp comedy Balls of Fury, while Ryan Reynolds debuts in the potential sleeper hit The Nines.

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