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Wkd Box Office - 10•19-21•18 - Michael Myers slays audiences, but not Venom's October OW record.
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It'll probably have better legs for 2 weeks before we are bombarded with blockbusters in November. If nothing else it's shown that there's only room for one Oscar movie. Sorry First Man.
Halloween as a franchise always had a bumpier road in terms of releases, as there was a seven-year gap between 2 and 4 for anyone craving Michael Myers. F13 had five films in that gap, all with Jason, and NoeS had four films.
Halloween always took itself seriously. Jason was played for campy gore & cheap thrills. And Freddy was jokester by the end of it. Halloween always felt like heavier material to draw in the casual audience for fun thrills. But, at this point, it's been so long since any of those 3 have been on the big screen; it's juts nice to see one of the Big 3 icons back again.
And when those blockbusters drop it will still have better legs than Venom because those blockbusters are going to go after the audience Venom has going for it. Of course both will experience big drops when that happens which I can't deny.
I saw the trailer for Glass with Halloween last night. Is that going to be a good movie? 'Cause, I really wasn't sure after that trailer. I just couldn't decide if it looked good or bad. It was a weird thing.
Have you watched any of the others movies connected with the film?
A 30% drop against such a huge opening is quite impressive. Almost everything WB has done this year has been a large or small success. Now if they could just figure out the DCU lol.
Saw Unbreakable in theaters back when it first came out. Rewatched it just a few months ago 'cause my wife had never seen it or Sixth Sense or Signs, so we did them all. It is a good, but flawed movie. Have yet to see Splice. One of these days.
Absolutely hilarious if it beats Justice League.
I hope it happens.
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Do you mean Split? Splice is the one where Adrian Brody has sex with the monster.
I hope so! I think Night will nail the trilogy and bring it all together. Have very high hopes for it.
The entire approach behind this film was giving Halloween the Force Awakens treatment.
'We're gonna give this franchise the respect it deserves, we're gonna make it feel like the original, none of the crap is canon anymore, we got the original star back as lead', etc. It all paid off big time for Blumhouse.
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Halloween had a bigger Saturday as well. But Venom opened on a (minor) holiday weekend.
GG Halloween. That's a huge opening for the series.
Asia loves Venom
Asia loves Venom
Halloween's success makes me think of how much lost potential revenue there is in many of these well known franchises due to mishandling. A well known IP + low budget + quality film = good return on investment.
Oh fuck didn't even realize it was Blumhouse. Interest decreased drastically. I'll probably still see it eventually though.
Kinda surprised Halloween did so well. I don't hear anyone but my horror enthusiast friends talking about it.
Decided to give Venom a shot. Hardy's performance pretty much locks this in as a comedy from his opening scenes and it works best if you treat it like that. I was laughing all the time during the final act, as was most of the audience. It's a trainwreck, but a fun one to watch unfold.
Blumhouse produced (or co-produced) Get Out, Upgrade, Whiplash, Split, BlacKkKlansman, and Hush
Damn Halloween only had a ten mil budget? They better have used half of that to pay Jamie Lee Curtis, she deserves it.
She bet on herself - I believe she took peanuts for salary for back end points, and that looks like it was a smart move.
The movie is too heavy and idiosyncratic to have mass appeal. A crowd pleaser like Apollo 13 or The Martian is it not.
I liked Get Out and Whiplash a lot. Didn't see Upgrade or BlacKkKlansman (yet). Didn't like Split or Hush. I guess we'll see. Haven't been a fan of their horror at all (Purge movies though the original was ok, Happy Death Day, Sinister, Paranormal Activity, etc) other than Get Out.
Much more. Not only are we (only) on the third weekend for the film, consider that we're missing a week of OS and the film has yet to open in China which could add around 100m+.
Venom could surpass Justice League (657m WW)
Blumhouse did Get Out, Whiplash and Upgrade. Whatchu talking about?
See above. They've also done a lot of straight garbage. Of course, matter of opinion and I still said I'd see it.
Seriously? Why the fuck are they releasing this in October? I assumed it was a late November movie at the earliest.
Disney can be dumb as shit sometimes.
Personally don't care about the budget myself. I do care about quality, but those don't go hand in hand.
they gotta have a couple "who the fuck is this even FOR?" movies each year
keeps things balanced
I could see it doing ok during holiday season.
This early is pants on head dumb. It won't even stay in theaters long enough to last through holiday season.
I bet WB/New Line is seriously thinking about giving that another go.
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