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The Possession has won the top spot in the US box office for the second week in a row.

Starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick, the horror film led a dismal fall weekend, bringing in $9.5 million and raising its total gross to $33.3 million.

Lawless, Shia LaBeouf’s 1920s crime drama, managed to hold on to its place at number two, earning $6 million.

Bradley Cooper’s latest drama The Words made just $5 million in ticket sales, debuting at third place, while The Expendables 2 dropped one place to number four with $4.75 million.

Rounding out the top ten are political comedy The Campaign at number eight with $3.5 million, The Dark Knight Rises with an additional $3 million to its $437 million total gross at number nine, and the documentary 2016: Obama’s America at ten with $3 million.

This is the lowest-grossing weekend at the US box office since 2008, with no film managing to break the $10 million mark.

The US box office top ten:
1. (1) The Possession – $9,500,000
2. (2) Lawless – $6,002,000
3. (-) The Words – $5,000,000
4. (3) The Expendables 2 – $4,750,000
5. (4) The Bourne Legacy – $4,000,000
6. (5) ParaNorman -$3,830,000
7. (6) The Odd Life of Timothy Green – $5,880,000
8. (8) The Campaign – $3,530,000
9. (7) The Dark Knight Rises – $3,285,000
10. (9) 2016: Obama’s America – $3,281,000

Christian Bale has flown a 4-year-old cancer sufferer to meet with him and his family at Disneyland.

The Dark Knight Rises star flew Jayden Barber and his entire family to Los Angeles for a lunch at Disneyland’s Club 33 earlier this week.

The boy’s mother Charlene Barber posted photos of the actor with her son on a specially-created group called ‘Lighting the Batsignal for Jayden‘.

She wrote: “The entire interaction was like old friends having lunch. Jayden did not get starstruck but was well aware of who we were with!

“They talked movies and superheroes and he was genuinely happy to hear about everything Jayden wanted to tell him. Christian, his wife and daughter are three of the most beautiful people we have ever met! Christian made these arrangements for us personally and ensured we were treated like royalty.

“I don’t have even one negative thing to say about them. I can tell you that they were just as impressed w Jayden as Jayden was w them :)”

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Michael Clarke Duncan has died, aged 54.

The Green Mile actor passed away this morning (September 3) in a Los Angeles hospital, TMZ reports.

A rep for the star said that he never fully recovered from the heart attack he suffered on July 13.

Duncan’s fiancée, Apprentice star Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth, was with him in the hospital room where he was being treated. She left for a short period of time and when she returned, he had passed away.

“[Omarosa] is grateful for all of your prayers and asks for privacy at this time. Celebrations of his life, both private and public, will be announced at a later date,” Duncan’s rep said.

Duncan was nominated for ‘Best Supporting Actor’ at the Academy Awards for his portrayal of John Coffey in The Green Mile. He also starred in Armageddon, The Whole Nine Yards, Planet of the Apes, Sin City and Daredevil.

He worked as a bodyguard for celebrities such as Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, LL Cool J and Notorious B.I.G. before his acting career took off.

The Possession has debuted at number one on the US box office.

The horror film, starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick, opened with weekend sales of $17.7 million, pushing The Expendables 2 out of its two-week run at the top to number three with $8.8 million.

Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy’s latest gangster drama Lawless was able to debut at number two, earning $9.6 million in ticket sales.

The Bourne Legacy fell two spots to number four, taking in a further $7.2 million and bringing its current total gross up to $96 million.

Fairing less well is The Campaign, Will Ferrell’s political comedy that saw a huge dip from number four to number eight this week with $5.4 million.

Meanwhile, Meryl Streep’s romantic comedy Hope Spring holds on with $4.7 million at the number ten spot.

The US box office top ten:
1. (-) The Possession – $17,725,000
2. (1) Lawless – $9,674,000
3. (1) The Expendables 2 – $8,800,000
4. (2) The Bourne Legacy – $7,248,000
5. (3) ParaNorman – $6,551,000
6. (6) The Odd Life of Timothy Green -$6,055,000
7. (5) The Dark Knight Rises – $5,880,000
8. (4) The Campaign – $5,445,000
9. (7) 2016: Obama’s America – $5,103,000
10. (9) Hope Springs – $4,700,000