theaters , which typically charge an extra few bucks per ticket for the privilege of watching the film with those comfy stereoscopic glasses . Rest assured , despite its title -LRB- and its abysmal `` C '' Cinemascore grade -RRB- , this is by no means the final `` Final Destination '' movie . The folks at the The Weinstein Company , meanwhile , continue to enjoy good news for their much scrutinized bottom line : Quentin Tarantino 's `` Inglourious Basterds '' landed at No. 2 with a rather spectacular $ 20 million , just 47 percent down from its opening weekend for $ 73.7 million total . TWC 's sister company Dimension Films , meanwhile , saw its `` Halloween II '' debut at third with a nothing-to-sneeze-at $ 17.4 million . Granted , director Rob Zombie 's second re-imagining of the 31-years-old slasher franchise made nothing close to the $ 30.6 million Labor Day weekend debut of Zombie 's first night out with Michael Myers . But given the steep competition , and the film 's $ 15 million budget , Dimension must be breathing a sigh of relief that their film will most likely see a
-LRB- Entertainment Weekly -RRB- -- For many , the creative relevance of 3-D cinema remains very much an open question . But when the history of Hollywood 's 21st century embrace of 3-D is written , it very well may point to this weekend as the moment when the format definitively established its commercial power at the box office . `` The Final Destination '' scared up by far the most box office receipts , banking $ 28.3 million . Despite a moviegoing weekend dominated with R-rated violent thriller-type films ostensibly shooting for the same audience , `` The Final Destination '' scared up by far the most box office receipts , banking $ 28.3 million for an easy No. 1 berth , according to early estimates from Hollywood.com Box Office . That 's almost $ 10 million better than the opening frame for the last film in the creatively-dispatching-model-perfect-unknown-actors franchise -LRB- which , for those keeping track , was `` Final Destination 3 '' -RRB- . There 's really only one reason why : Although just over half its 3,121 theaters were screening the flick in 3-D , fully 70 percent of its box office take was from 3-D