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The Martian has narrowly beaten last week’s number one Goosebumps to top the US box office.

Matt Damon’s sci-fi film took $15.9m – just $400,000 more than the Jack Black offering – to claim the top spot.

Tom Hanks’s Bridge of Spies remains at three with $11.3m, while new entry The Last Witch Hunter could only make fourth with $10.8m.

Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension is new at six with $8.2m, and Michael Fassbender’s Steve Jobs jumps into the top 10 at seven with $7.2m.

Finally, The Intern and Sicario round out the bottom with $3.8m and $2.9m respectively.

The US weekend box office top 10 for October 23-25 is as follows:
1. (2) The Martian – $15,900,000
2. (1) Goosebumps – $15,500,000
3. (3) Bridge of Spies – $11,365,000
4. (-) The Last Witch Hunter – $10,825,000
5. (5) Hotel Transylvania 2 – $9,000,000
6. (-) Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension – $8,200,000
7. (11) Steve Jobs – $7,270,000
8. (4) Crimson Peak – $5,560,000
9. (7) The Intern – $3,855,000
10. (8) Sicario – $2,950,000

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Jack Black’s Goosebumps has taken $23.5m in its opening weekend to go straight to the top of the US box office.

The film knocked The Martian off the top spot, while Crimson Peak was less than impressive in its opening weekend.

The Martian is down to 2 with $21.5m, while Steven Spielberg’s Cold War drama Bridge of Spies is in at 3 with $15.3m.

Meanwhile, Tom Hiddleston’s Crimson Peak is at 4 with a disappointing $12.8m.

Hotel Transylvania 2 is at 5 with $12.5m, Hugh Jackman’s Pan is at 6 with $5.8m and The Intern is at 7 with $5.4m.

Finally, Sicario is at 8 with $4.5m, new entry Woodlawn is at 9 with $4.1m and Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials rounds out the top ten with $2.7m.

The US weekend box office top 10 for October 16-18 is as follows:
1. (-) Goosebumps – $23,500,000
2. (1) The Martian – $21,500,000
3. (-) Bridge of Spies – $15,380,000
4. (-) Crimson Peak – $12,850,000
5. (2) Hotel Transylvania 2 – $12,250,000
6. (3) Pan – $5,860,000
7. (4) The Intern – $5,405,000
8. (5) Sicario – $4,500,000
9. (-) Woodlawn – $4,100,000
10. (6) Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials – $2,750,000

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The Martian has remained the number one movie for the second week at the US box office.

Starring Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain, the Ridley Scott-directed movie took in $37m, adding to its total of $108.7m.

Hotel Transylvania 2 and The Intern also kept their spots from last weekend – the former at second place with $20.3m and the latter at fourth place with $8.6m.

Meanwhile, Pan had an unimpressive debut, landing at third place with $15.5m.

Starring Hugh Jackman, Rooney Mara and Garrett Hedlund, Pan tells the story of how a young orphan boy named Peter became the hero known as Peter Pan.

The Walk, on the other hand, managed to climb up from last weekend’s eleventh spot to seventh place with $3.6m.

Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Walk tells the real-life story of high-wire artist Philippe Petit’s dream to to walk between the World Trade Centre towers in 1974.

Sicaro slipped two spots to fifth place with $7.3m, followed by Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials in sixth place with $5.2m.

Black Mass at eight with $3.1m, Everest at ninth with $3m and The Visit at tenth with $2.4m round up the top ten list at the US box office.

The US weekend box office top 10 for October 9-11 is as follows:
1. (1) The Martian – $37,000,000
2. (2) Hotel Transylvania 2 – $20,300,000
3. (-) Pan – $15,530,000
4. (4) The Intern – $8,660,000
5. (3) Sicario – $7,350,000
6. (5) Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials – $5,250,000
7. (11) The Walk – $3,650,000
8. (6) Black Mass – $3,130,000
9. (7) Everest (2015) – $3,030,000
10. (8) The Visit – $2,420,000

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Neflix subscribers in the US, Canada and Latin America are facing a price hike if they want to keep tabs on Daredevil and House of Cards.

The streaming giant announced today that new customers in the aforementioned regions will now have to pay $9.99 per month – up $1 – for the multi-screen standard HD plan.

Existing customers will maintain their $8.99-per-month rate for the next year, at which time their fee will also increase.

Netflix announced today (November 8): “To continue adding more TV shows and movies including many Netflix original titles, we are modestly raising the price for some new members in the US.

“As a thank you to existing Netflix members — who aren’t already benefiting from grandfathering — we will maintain their current price for a year.”

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Ridley Scott’s sci-fi movie, which stars Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain, took $55m in its opening weekend.

Elsewhere, Hotel Transylvania 2 is down to two with $33m and Emily Blunt’s Sicario rises seven places to third with $12m.

The Intern is at four with $11.6m, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials is at five with $7.6m and Black Mass is at six with $5.9m.

Meanwhile, Everest is at seven with $5.5m and M. Night Shyamalan’s The Visit is at eight with $3.9m.

Finally, War Room is at nine with $2.8m and The Perfect Guy rounds out the top ten with $2.4m.

The US weekend box office top 10 for October 2-4 is as follows:
1. (-) The Martian – $55,000,000
2. (1) Hotel Transylvania 2 – $33,000,000
3. (10) Sicario – $12,075,000
4. (2) The Intern – $11,620,000
5. (3) Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials – $7,650,000
6. (5) Black Mass – $5,905,000
7. (4) Everest – $5,510,000
8. (6) The Visit – $3,950,000
9. (8) War Room – $2,800,000
10. (7) The Perfect Guy – $2,400,000

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