'Halloween' is Set to Make a Killing at the Box Office
by EG
John Carpenter's Halloween has had many sequels over the decades, but none has come close to matching the success of the franchise's original installment. That could change this month when a highly anticipated sequel hits theaters. Read on for details.
Via Deadline.
UPDATE: Universal/Blumhouse/Miramax’s Halloween is flying off the tracking charts. Soon after our sources said around $40M last Thursday for the David Gordon Green-directed movie, tracking services have upped their bets on the horror sequel’s opening to $60M. This morning, Fandango announced that tickets are already on sale for the Oct. 19 release.
According to a Fandango survey of more than 1,000 moviegoers, Halloween was selected as the single most anticipated horror movie of the fall season. (The Predator, which opened to $24.6 million and The Nun, which opened to $53.8 million, were the #2 and #3 choices among most anticipated fall horror flicks on the Fandango list.)
The combined success of Venom and A Star Is Born is expected to launch October to a record first weekend over the next three days, besting the time when 20th Century Fox’s The Martian led all films to a Friday-Sunday haul of $151.4M over Oct. 2-4, 2015. Halloween will only catapult the autumn further. We were concerned that the fall season would lag post summer, but it’s not looking that way.
PREVIOUS EXCLUSIVE, Sept. 27: Universal/Blumhouse/Miramax’s Halloween came on tracking this morning and early industry forecasts indicate that the reboot/sequel is easily poised for a $40M-plus –possibly even $50M– 3-day weekend opening on Oct. 19, which will easily deliver the 40-year-old classic horror franchise its best domestic box office debut ever, beating the Weinstein/MGM 2007 reboot which opened to $26.3M.
The latest Halloween is opening close to 40 years from the weekend when John Carpenter’s original bowed on Oct. 25, 1978.
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