Halloween Kills opens about as well as it would have sans-Covid in 2020 as The Last Duel gets clobbered by the Michael Myers sequel and the James Bond epic. Halloween Kills ( review ) easily topped the domestic box office this weekend, earning $22.86 million on Friday. That includes $4.85 million in Thursday previews, a 21% Thursday-to-Friday figure ever so slightly better than Halloween ’s 23.3% three Octobers ago. If this second of three planned Blumhouse-produced Michel Myers melodramas pulls the same 2.33x Friday-to-weekend multiplier as its predecessor, we can expect a $53 million domestic debut. Not only would that be a fine opening on a Covid curve, but I’d also argue a $50-$55 million debut is pretty damn close to what it would have earned under normal circumstances. Halloween Kills , also starring Jamie Lee Curtis alongside Judy Greer, Andi Matichak, and Will Patton, was never going to open as well as Halloween , even if it had debuted theatrically last …
Friday Box Office: Michael Myers Wounds James Bond And Venom
No Time to Die earned another $7.2 million on Friday to place second behind Halloween Kills ($21 million). That’s a 69% Friday drop from the film’s $23.3 million opening day (including $6.3 million in Thursday previews), which is on par with Quantum of Solace in 2008 (-68% from its $27 million first-Friday gross) but a harsher drop than Skyfall in 2012 (-60% from a $32.7 million Friday) and Spectre in 2015 (-62% from a $27.4 million opening day). We’re still looking at a $25 million (-54%) second-weekend gross. That will A) be a hold comparable to the last three Daniel Craig 007 movies (-60% in 2008 -53% in 2012 and -52% in 2015) and B) push the 25th official James Bond movie past $100 million by Sunday night. If it legs from this point onward like Quantum of Solace or Spectre (1.55x their respective $109 million and $129 million ten-day totals), it’ll end with $155 million domestic. If it legs like Skyfall (1.88x its $161 million ten-day total), it’ll flirt …
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