Sarah Michelle Gellar returns to the box office chart

US box office figures for the week ending November 10th 2006 have seen Sarah Michelle Gellar's new movie, The Return, enter at number eight in the top ten.

Grossing $4.78 million (£2.51 million), the movie sees Gellar as Joanna Mills, a businesswoman drawn to the scene of a murder that happened years previously.

Gellar is no stranger to films in the suspense and thriller genre, as she recently featured in The Grudge and The Grudge 2 - films about a supernatural and highly malevolent spirit trapped in a house.

However, while starring in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gellar also appeared in slasher movies Scream 2 and I Know What You Did Last Summer.

After starring as Buffy for seven years, the actress now concentrates on film projects, following the success of earlier movie work in Cruel Intentions and Scooby-Doo.

Scooby-Doo and its sequel, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, also feature Gellar's real-life husband, actor Freddie Prinze Jr.

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