I wonder: did Michael Meyers have a premonition of doom -- like the ones those clairvoyant teens from the Final Destination series have -- right before Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) slaughtered him this weekend? According to Boxofficemojo, poor Mike apparently didn't stand a chance against Death.

Destination came in first this past weekend at domestic theaters with a gross of around $28 million. Even though that's an estimate, there's no way the final numbers will change anything, because Halloween 2, distributed by The Weinstein Company, ranked third with roughly $17 million.

Quentin Tarantino's new epic, Inglourious Basterds (sorry, spell-checker), was the top film at domestic theaters this past weekend, according to Boxofficemojo. Distributed by The Weinstein Company, Basterds took in around $37 million, as of early estimates.

Last week's number-one flick, Sony's (NYSE: SNE) District 9, dropped to second place this time around, but don't feel too badly for the project. The cumulative gross on it is well beyond $70 million at this point. A $100 million domestic take should be a lock. Then again, $100 million isn't what it used to be; still, the movie supposedly didn't cost a ton of money, so perhaps the studio will do okay financially (see my previous box-office article for a discussion on budgets, as well as an insightful comment from a reader on the subject).