Posted on 10/17/2018 11:25:00 AM PDT by C19fan
“Halloween” should keep powering the domestic market as Universal’s R-rated slasher film eyes a massive opening in the $57 million to $65 million range. The studio is cautiously anticipating a $50 million bow, though some industry analysts think it could rocket past $70 million when it debuts in 3,928 theaters. “Halloween” is also releasing in 21 international territories this weekend.
Even the lower part of that range would easily shatter records for the best launch in the “Halloween” franchise. The 2007 reboot holds that distinction now with $26 million. “Halloween” also looks to notch one of the best starts for an R-rated horror film, joining the company of “It” ($123 million), “Hannibal ($58 million), and “The Nun” ($53 million). Given its $10 million production budget, the scary sequel is on track to be hugely profitable.
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Sequels and reboots and remakes, oh my!
I’m currently watching Halloween 3.
Funny how THAT one has absolutely NO gun play, and Jamie Lee’s nowhere in it other than a couple of voice-overs.
(I wonder how well Cochran’s robots would hold up to a few Desert Eagle .50AE shots through them)
That’s what I’m rooting for!
It was so sad when his plane crashed in "The Great Escape", they were so close.
Foolish, I think, for the director not to listen.
Did you see it? It was slightly above average but really a routine slasher movie. Poorly paced to boot.
It was great. Back to the original which while always credited for starting the slasher subgenre is really a suspense movie. Fantastic pacing. You simply don’t get horror movies, we know this.
I like a lot of horror movies - the 1978 film is a classic. This wasn’t terrible just not resonant. Hell I think I liked Halloween 2 more than this - the one set in the hospital. Though my connection to that one may be generational nostalgia.
2 was so bad. Although given the sequels after it became one of the best. This one resonated with everybody else I know that saw it.
It probably was objectively bad. I just saw it at a point in life where it imprinted itself on my subconscious.
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