'Halloween' pulls neat trick with end-of-summer treat

September 05, 2007 Michael Myers, the knife-wielding psycho who has been the driving force in eight previous "Halloween" movies, roared back to life during the Labor Day weekend at the North American boxoffice, where his latest screen incarnation in director Rob Zombie's "Halloween" sliced and diced its way to the top of the heap. Grossing $30.6 million during the four-day weekend, "Halloween," produced by the Weinstein Co.'s Dimension Films label and distributed by MGM, established a new Labor Day weekend opening record. Under the banner of its genre label Rogue Pictures, Focus Features also took advantage of the Labor Day weekend to launch its martial arts parody "Balls of Fury," directed by Robert Ben Garant and starring Dan Fogler and Christopher Walken.

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