Universal/Miramax/Blumhouse’s sequel Halloween Kills, which is also available on Uni’s streaming service Peacock today to paid subscribers, made $4.85M from 7PM shows last night booked at 2,950 theaters.
The rebooted franchise from filmmaker David Gordon Green, and starring the franchise’s legend Jamie Lee Curtis of six pics, is expected to open to mid-to-high $30Ms, for what is expected to be another strong October pandemic weekend after the openings of Venom: Let There Be Carnage ($90M) and United Artists Releasing’s No Time to Die which did $55.2M, which was an amount of money that was good enough for exhibition; that Daniel Craig film posting a $75.2M first week.
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