Box office update: 'Warm Bodies' warms up the chart with $8.7 million on Friday

Summit Entertainment's Warm Bodies is on its way to winning the weekend box office with a debut of $20 million or more, a tidy sum considering Sunday's Super Bowl will take a huge bite out of moviegoing. our editor recommends. 'Warm Bodies' Ebook

Read our 'Warm Bodies' movie review to find out if this horror/romance is a humorous and heart-warming twist on the zombie genre.

Of all the boogie monsters and creepy creatures in our public consciousness, the zombie is the most metaphorical by virtue of being the most inflexible. All the other monsters are too human: Vampires and werewolves and

Last year, the teen superpower adventure Chronicle earned $8.6 million the Friday before Super Bowl Sunday and finished the frame with $22 million. Since Warm Bodies, which is based on the popular novel by Isaac Marion, already has a built-in following

This week marked the return of Sylvester Stallone in the action flick "Bullet to the Head." The movie, based on the graphic novel of the same name, overflowed with pointless violence and predictable, "tough guy" moments.