Author: Pamela McClintock / Source: The Hollywood Reporter
Blumhouse and Universal’s Halloween has no doubt decided on its All Hallows’ Eve costume — profit monster.
Thanks in large measure to Venom, A Star Is Born and now Halloween, domestic revenue has already hit a record for the month, or $789.
9 million, well above the previous best set in 2014 ($757 million).A direct sequel to the classic 1978 slasher pic, Halloween grossed a stellar $32 million from 3,990 theaters in its second weekend, where it stayed atop the chart to finish Sunday with a domestic tally of $126.7 million. That’s the best showing for an R-rated horror pic since It a year ago, as well as one of the top showings of all time for the genre, not adjusted for inflation.
Halloween also scared up headlines internationally, where it beat Venom to top the foreign chart with $25.6 million from 47 markets for a foreign total of $45.6 million and $172.3 million globally. Another big winner overseas was Fox’s Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, which sang its way to a $12.2 million debut in the U.K. following its premiere in London last week and ahead of its domestic launch later this week. The U.K. opening came in 127 percent ahead of the music-infused A Star Is Born, 95 percent ahead of The Greatest Showman and 46 percent ahead of La La Land.
Other notable achievements for Halloween in North America: it scored one of the top showings ever for the Halloween corridor. And the pic has fast become Blumhouse’s top-grossing title behind Get Out and Split. Halloween‘s sophomore outing was no doubt aided by getting a berth in some Imax theaters that were previously showing Universal’s troubled astronaut drama, First Man.
Directed by David Gordon Green and costing just $10 million to produce before marketing, Halloween dropped 58 percent, a strong hold for a…
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