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‘Halloween Ends’ $43 Million Opening – Deadline

October 14, 2022

FRIDAY NOON UPDATE: From this minute, Halloween ends doesn’t sound as great as the forecast had, which is in the $50 million range. However, at a $43M opening, it’s not shabby for a film that cost 30 million dollars. Remember, it’s a threequel. Universal can boast that this is the sixth consecutive year (8th time) that the studio has had a No. 1 opening with a horror film after 2017. get out, 2018 Halloween, 2019 We, 2020s Weird, 2021 candy man and halloween kills and this year Nope and Halloween ends.

Today, including last night’s $5.4 million previews, seems to be $20 million in 3,901 theaters, i.e. 12% less halloween kills first day. Maybe there will be a bump on the west coast or late overnight, but that’s what the numbers look like right now compared to the historical comps of Halloween and Halloween kills. Michael Myers’ latest film posted a 24% drop from Friday/Preview to Saturday.

RelishMix on social media saw nothing but blue skies during halloween is over, saying the chatter “turns positive on the film’s title, Halloween ends, as they assume it’s a teaser for the future of the franchise noting that “Michael Myers can never die because of his immortality”. Plus, Jamie Lee Curtis on late-night talk shows flirting with the notion of future installments of the iconic franchise that maybe this is the end. Plus, the brand’s trick or treat iconography over 44 years since Halloween first dropped when Curtis was a teenager resonates. Superfans are also calling out the film’s creator, John Carpenter, who composed this sequel. The total social media reach is 146.5 million across YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, which is lower than the 2018 headline which was close to 193 million, and about the same for halloween kills at 147M. Curtis and Kyle Richards lead the cast with social media reach at 7.8 million and 6.3 million.

Curtis confirmed in writing on Jimmy Kimmel that Halloween ends is his last Halloween film…

Paramount’s “Smile”

Paramount Pictures

Maybe Paramount Smile Steals Some Business: Parker Finn Horror Movie’s Third Weekend Expected to Drop Just 37% for $11.75M and a running total of $70.5 million. Friday is $3.6M-32%, in 3,612 rooms.

Sony’s Second Weekend Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile is in third place with a $1.9M Friday, -48% and 3 days of $7 million in 4,350 theaters, -47%, and ten days of $22.4M.

Fourth is TriStar The female king in 2,565 theaters and a 5th Friday of $933,000-29%, $3.5M weekend, -32% for a cumulative total of $56.6M.

Fifth place is New Regency/20th Century Studios/Disney’s New Amsterdam at 3,005 for one $900,000 Friday, -66% and second weekend of $2.9M-55% and ten days of $11.9M.

FRIDAY UPDATE: Release by Universal of Blumhouse, Miramax and Trancas Halloween ends seen on a Thursday evening $5.4M 3,200 rooms with screenings starting at 5 p.m. This figure is +11% compared to last year halloween kills‘ previews, which totaled $4.85 million.

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The third Halloween David Gordon Green’s film in a subset trilogy within the franchise is expected to gross around $55 million this weekend from 3,901 theaters. Halloween ends cost $30 million before P&A. The picture was exclusive to cinemas for one night before also hitting the Peacock streaming service on the paid subscriber level; it became available at 8 p.m. ET, Deadline just learned. Again, it’s not that Universal has no faith in movies, Peacock has 15 million paying subscribers and needs more. Similar to halloween kills, which Uni also shot on that theatrical day and date, the studio bought back the creative cast backends, making them whole as if the film was a sprawling hit given the pivot to Peacock.

Green is the first Halloween The 2018 film, which brought back an older, wiser Laurie Strode played by Jamie Lee Curtis, is the highest-grossing of the trio with $7.7 million in Thursday night previews, opening $33 million on Friday. and $76.2 million on the first weekend, which was exclusively theatrical. This film was also the fourth-best opening of October and, more surprisingly, electrified what was usually a dead zone for films of the latter part of the month.

Last year Uni went to the cinema day and date on halloween kills out of an abundance of caution for moviegoers during the pandemic, and also to increase Peacock subs. The picture posted the best opening for a horror film during the pandemic and the second best for a day and date title (after Black Widow$80 million) with $49.4 million after a $4.85 million preview on Thursday, which accounted for 21% of the pic’s $22.8 million on its first Friday.

Critics widely loved Green’s 2018 Halloween at 79% on Rotten Tomatoes, with audiences giving it a B+. However, film critics turned their backs on the sequels, giving halloween kills and Halloween ends respective ratings of 39% and 47% Rotten. Auds gave halloween kills a B- CinemaScore (the average grades for a genre film are between a B and a C+).

Jaclyn Hall and Danielle Deadwyler in TILL — Jalyn Hall as Emmett Till and Danielle Deadwyler as Grandma Till Mobley in “Till”.

Photos by Lynsey Weatherspoon/Orion

The limited opening this weekend is the drama directed by United Artists Releasing / Chinonye Chukwu d’Eon Until at 16 sites in five markets. The film about Emmett Till’s mother, who swears to expose the racism behind her 1955 lynching, is 100% from 43 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes following its world premiere at the New York Film Festival. Until will expand to other markets and theaters in the coming weeks.

‘Till’ NYFF Review: Chinonye Chukwu Handles Emmett Till’s Story With Care

Among these films in regular release, Paramount’s horror picture Smile reported an estimate $1.5M yesterday, -8% from Wednesday at 3,659, bringing its two-week running total to $58.6 million after a $26.4M second week. The film is expected to drop 55% in its third run.

Animated/live-action title from the Sony family Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile ends its first week with $15.4M in 4,350 rooms. Thursday was estimated at $700,000, up 16% from Wednesday.

New Regency/20th Century Studios/Disney’s David O. Russell Period Comedy, amsterdam, which is expected to lose up to $100 million, ended its first week with $9 million in 3,005 rooms. Thursday was around $440,000-15% from Wednesday.

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Reserved in 3,342 theaters, TriStar’s The female king ends its fourth week with $7.2Mfor a cumulative total of $56 million after a $420,000 Thursday, +10% from Wednesday at 3,342.

new line don’t worry darling seen a third week of $5.2M at 3,324, one $40.2M cumulative total after a $365,000 Thursday, -2% compared to Wednesday.