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Horror movie The Grudge kept its hold on the North American box office chart over the Halloween weekend, according to studio estimates.

The Grudge, starring Buffy actress Sarah Michelle Gellar, made $22.4m (￡12.2m) from Friday to Sunday to keep it on top for a second week in a row.

It is a remake of a recent Japanese haunted house thriller.

Oscar-tipped Ray, about late soul star Ray Charles, is in second with $20.1m (￡11m), Exhibitor Relations said.

Actor Jamie Foxx, recently seen starring alongside Tom Cruise in Collateral, plays the blind singer who died in June.

Foxx is widely expected to be in line for an Oscar nomination in January.

Ray is directed by Taylor Hackford, who also made An Officer and a Gentleman and The Devil's Advocate, and spent 15 years trying to bring Charles' story to the screen.

Meanwhile, Nicole Kidman's new film, Birth, was in 11th place with $1.7m (￡925,000) in its first week, albeit on a more restricted release.

In it, she plays a grieving wife who believes a 10-year-old boy has been reincarnated as her husband. It was booed at Cannes for scenes where she shares a bath and a kiss with the boy.