Box Office: ‘Halloween Kills’ Scores Bloody Great US$50.3 Million Debut, ‘The Last Duel’ Bombs | Malay Mail

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LOS ANGELES, Oct 18 — Universal and Blumhouse’s Halloween Kills topped the weekend box office with a US$50.3 million (RM209.1 million) debut. That’s a bloody good showing considering that the film is being release simultaneously in theatres and on-demand via Peacock, NBCUniversal’s in-house...

topped the weekend box office with a US$50.3 million debut.

That’s a bloody good showing considering that the film is being release simultaneously in theatres and on-demand via Peacock, NBCUniversal’s in-house Netflix challenger. That kind of distribution pattern has depressed ticket sales in recent months, with films like Warner Bros’failing to resonate with moviegoers when they were made available at the same time on HBO Max., a lavish historical epic starring Adam Driver, Jodie Comer and, venturing very far afield from the Cambridge/Southie milieu that made them stars in, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. The drama, which is set in 14th century France, bombed, grossing a pallid US$4.8 million.

That’s a disastrous result given that the film cost north of US$100 million and a sign that older audiences remain skittish about returning to theatres when Covid and its variants are still circulating.Ridley Scott, who also oversaw this autumn’s, directed. Critics were kind, but that couldn’t save the movie, which is limping to a fifth-place finish.earned US$24.3 million in its second weekend of release, good enough for a second-place finish.

That’s a drop of 56 per cent, which is roughly in line with how other James Bond films have performed in their sophomore frame.However, the problem for the 007 sequel is that it was greenlit in pre-Covid times and carries a massive US$250 million price tag along with more than US$100 million in promotional spending. Given those costs,Venom Let The Be CarnageThat brings its domestic haul to US$169.1 million, an impressive figure that guarantees audiences haven’t seen the last of this symbiote.

 

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