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Box Office: ‘Halloween’ to Carve Out Huge $65 Million-Plus Debut
Variety ^ | October 16, 2018 | Rebecca Rubin

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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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: halloween; jamieleecurtis; rebootsequel
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Cha ching!
1 posted on 10/17/2018 11:25:00 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Damn. But it looks good, and the dropped most of the (largely terrible) mythology. Straight sequel to the first. I’m going.


2 posted on 10/17/2018 11:27:50 AM PDT by discostu (Every gun makes its own tune.)
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To: discostu

Waiting for this ploy with the star wars series, throw out all but the “first two (or three)”


3 posted on 10/17/2018 11:29:41 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: discostu

I wateched the ‘catch up’ vidto run throw of all of the Halloween films. Never paid this series much mnd even when the first one debuted on HBO.

I was surprised that they’ve done retrocontinuity and alternate paths and reboots already to the franchise. This latest entry continues the multiverse approach.

As for me, I prefer Phantasm.


4 posted on 10/17/2018 11:32:49 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: a fool in paradise

[I prefer Phantasm]

“Boooooooooy!”


5 posted on 10/17/2018 11:36:17 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: C19fan

Michael Myers must be 80 years old.


6 posted on 10/17/2018 11:38:46 AM PDT by toast
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To: C19fan

Glad they ditched the rob zombie crap.


7 posted on 10/17/2018 11:42:04 AM PDT by MNDude (WWG1WGA)
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To: C19fan

A director friend of mine told me the key to all these slasher/horror movies was not young men, but young women, that they had a tremendous appeal to them for some odd reason.

Possibly it’s because in many the heroine manages in the end to (temporarily) kill the monster.


8 posted on 10/17/2018 11:43:58 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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Does Michael Myers finally kill Jamie Lee Curtis?


9 posted on 10/17/2018 11:56:06 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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To: a fool in paradise; headstamp 2
Sweet ride in Phantasm...


10 posted on 10/17/2018 12:00:58 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Pearls Before Swine

He kills her by cutting off her penis...


11 posted on 10/17/2018 12:01:44 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

Jeez. You must have seen the trailer. That is so culturally up to date!

You had to ruin it for me.


12 posted on 10/17/2018 12:05:22 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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To: a fool in paradise

Ooooh Phantasm. “BOY!”. I love the Halloween series, but yeah. It basically needs to be watched in clusters. 1, 2, H20 and Resurrection are basically a series. 4, 5 and 6 are a trilogy that kind of picks up from 2 but not really. 3 is of course unrelated (but actually pretty good). Then there’s Rob’s. It’s always the problem with there being no guiding voice. Halloween is a property, when whichever company owns it this week decides to make a movie they hire people and make it. There’s been no Phantasm without Coscarelli, they actually kind of make sense.


13 posted on 10/17/2018 12:40:31 PM PDT by discostu (Every gun makes its own tune.)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

“Does Michael Myers finally kill Jamie Lee Curtis?”

Sheesh. I hope so.

Jamie Lee Curtis sports an array of self-defense guns utilized by her Halloween character. Yet the actress campaigns against the 2nd Amendment along with her Hollyweird hypocrite pals.

She should fight hockey-masked Michael Myers with her bare hands wearing a pussy hat. That’ll get ‘em.


14 posted on 10/17/2018 1:01:59 PM PDT by demnomo
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Well, both Jamie and Michael (or whoever is behind the Shatner mask) have outlived Donald Pleasance, that’s for certain.


15 posted on 10/17/2018 1:02:51 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine ("It's always a party when you're eating the seed corn.")
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I liked Donald Pleasance as an actor. Don’t know much about his politics. That said, may he RIP.


16 posted on 10/17/2018 1:16:00 PM PDT by demnomo
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The FAILURE of the senate to move these 4 gun measures forward will come home to roost in November. #onepersononevote @HillaryClinton— Jamie Lee Curtis (@jamieleecurtis) June 21, 2016

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17 posted on 10/17/2018 1:51:13 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: a fool in paradise

“As for me, I prefer Phantasm.”

I saw that when it came out, in a PACKED midnight showing. We didn’t have all the gadgets and hyper-stimulation to dull us out back then, so people were SCREAMING when that flying orb drilled a hole in that guys head! It really was like a thrill ride.


18 posted on 10/17/2018 3:25:56 PM PDT by avenir ("But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine."--Paul to Titus)
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To: demnomo
I liked Donald Pleasance, too. Donald Pleasance also played George Soros -- I mean Blofeld in "You only Live Twice."
19 posted on 10/17/2018 3:58:39 PM PDT by Stepan12 (It is Civll War right now..)
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I don;t like slasher movies. Too mmuch focus on the psycho killer and not enough on the hero. I still prefer douglas Fairbanks, Sr. in The Mark of Zorro to any slasher film.
20 posted on 10/17/2018 4:06:05 PM PDT by Stepan12 (It is Civll War right now..)
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