Halloween weekend moviegoers were few in number,The Relic Of My Sister Next Door with estimates for the top two finishers combining for slightly more than $30 million between them.

Tyler Perry's Boo! A Madea Halloweenis the weekend's winner according to Sunday estimates, with $16.7 million earned domestically. That's an encouragingly low 41 percent drop in the week since the Lionsgate feature opened on Oct. 21.

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The surprise of the weekend is Inferno, Tom Hanks' latest Robert Langdon movie, which sputters into the #2 spot with an estimated $15 million. It's no Halloween movie, sure, but Tom Hanks has been a bankable name for this successful-until-now series.


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The Da Vinci Codeopened at $77 million in 2006, with Angels & Demonsfollowing in 2009 with a $46.2 million start. Moviegoing audiences seemingly aren't fired up anymore about the series adapted from Dan Brown's popular books.

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Horror wasn't on moviegoers' minds either, possibly because Halloween falls on a Monday this year. There weren't any new horror releases and Boo!-- now in its second week -- is a horror/comedy, leaving fear-loving audiences few options to choose from.

It's not until the weekend's #5 spot -- after Jack Reacher: Never Go Back ($9.6 million) and The Accountant ($8.5 million) at #3 and #4, respectively -- that an actual horror movie pops up. Ouija: Origin of Evildrops by 50 percent since opening against Boo!last week, with an estimated $7.1 million at #5.

The Universal feature isn't a failure. Its cumulative box office of $24.6 million after two weeks is already more than double the reported $9 million budget. But it's also no Sawor Paranormal Activity.

Infernois the real loser of the weekend, at least domestically. The Dan Brown adaptations are beloved overseas, and the latest is already up to $132.7 million -- well past its reported $75 million budget -- outside the United States.

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