Box Office Week: Halloween is #1 again with $32M. The film has crossed $125M domestic, making it the highest grossing slasher film. Hunter Killer bombs opening at #6 with $6.6M. Suspiria opens in 2 theaters to $179K, giving it the highest per theater average of the year with $89K.

Rank	Title	Domestic Gross (Weekend)	Worldwide Gross (Cume)	Week #	Percentage Change	Budget
1	Halloween (2018)	$32,045,000	$172,298,400	2	-58.0%	$10M
2	A Star is Born (2018)	$14,145,000	$253,322,400	4	-25.8%	$36M
3	Venom	$10,800,000	$508,382,314	4	-40.1%	$100M
4	Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween	$7,500,000	$62,548,809	3	-22.8%	$35M
5	Hunter Killer	$6,650,000	$7,130,149	1	N/A	$40M

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Notable Box Office Stories

• Halloween (2018) - Despite the fact that Halloween weekend is usually a pretty crummy time at the box office, the 11th film in the very jangly Halloween franchise came in #1 again this weekend with $32M. While a 58% drop looks pretty steep, in terms of huge horror openings ($50M+) it's in the middle having a better drop than The Nun, Paranormal Activity 3, and The Village but a worse drop than IT and A Quiet Place. After this weekend the film crossed $125M domestic, becoming only the third slasher film to do so and beating Scream to become the highest grossing slasher film of all time. Despite it being a film called Halloween on Halloween weekend there still is a pretty heavy curse on the weekend itself as most people would rather go out to parties than go see films, despite a horror film usually topping the charts. Expect another rough weekend coming up as there is stiffer competition coming out including three major new wide releases. Still Halloween is doing all of this on a $10M budget and was considered a dead franchise. This is a success by any measure even if it falls off the charts next weekend.
• Hunter Killer - God bless you Gerard Butler. I don't know how you get all these foreign and indie distributors to finance your insane Canon-esque films but I love ya for it. His latest bomb is called Hunter Killer which opened at #5 this week to a pretty dismal $6.6M. The film carries a pretty hefty budget for a film like this with $40M, mostly due to expensive sets including a full sized submarine exterior built at Pinewood studio's water tank. The film was also a holdover from the infamous Relativity Media who went bankrupt in 2016 right when the film was getting ready for release. So this turkey got shuffled from one plate to the next before being dumped on a historical mediocre weekend where it flopped. Only other thing to note, 93% of the audience was over the age of 25. Damn young kids not respecting Gerard. He's the reason we have democracy you ingrates!
• Johnny English Strikes Again - I'm not sure why Johnny English films still even get released in America other than to say they did. The latest one has reached a new level of American disinterest as it opened in 544 theaters to just $1.6M. So let's instead talk about the foreign appeal of JE which has always been its stronger suit. Of course the main country for these films is Latvia, I don't know why. No of course it's the UK where the previous films crossed $30M, but Strikes Again doesn't seem to be inspiring much devotion there either where in almost a month of release the film has yet to cross $15M. However despite lower grosses across the board the film still has crossed $100M worldwide mostly lead by the UK and Asian countries including of surprisingly Malaysia where it has grossed $5M so far. So overall not a massive hit but this is really more of a national favor to UK icon Rowan Atkinson than a big comedy play. Also, is there a more British thing in the world than a comedy film series that's 15 years old and has only 3 films in it?
• Suspiria - It's a good time for horror remakes when even the super arty ones are making bank as the remake of the 1977 Italian classic opened in 2 theaters to $179,806, giving it a $89,903 per theater average. That beats Free Solo as the best per theater average of the year. The film has been highly anticipated for a while. For one it's the follow up for Luca Guadagnino who has been a steadily rising force in the arthouse world who really made a big breakout last year with his critical darling Call Me By Your Name. Then there's all the press surrounding the dual performance by Tilda Swinton where she's playing a dude who's playing a dude. And just the interesting element of remaking a horror classic but with a fairly feminist lens to the whole thing. All that hype worked in NYC/LA but it's tough to know if that will expand out. The film has had some pretty awful posters so hype will be the main factor as it expands further into 250 theaters next weekend.
• London Fields - Do you know this Amber Heard lead period drama exists? Probably not since it set a pretty crappy record this weekend as it opened in 613 theaters to just $116,470. That makes it the second worst opening ever for a film in wide release (600+ theaters). The film's release however feels more like lancing a boil than a classic splashy opening as it's a film marred by trouble. First was the film production suing Heard when she refused to do a nude scene for the film. Then there were fights between the director and the producer over who legally had final cut (the film in theaters is the director's cut). And then there's the fact the film has been in this struggle so long that Johnny Depp is in this movie as this was long before he and Heard's messy divorce and subsequent domestic abuse allegations. So yeah not surprising it got no marketing and no buzz whatsoever and just kinda dropped into theaters. Hell some of the lawsuits aren't even over yet! Isn't filmmaking just the most rewarding field you could ever go into?

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Films Reddit Wants to Follow

This is a segment where we keep a weekly tally of currently showing films that aren't in the Top 5 that fellow redditors want updates on. If you'd like me to add a film to this chart, make a comment in this thread.

Title	Domestic Gross (Weekly)	Domestic Gross (Cume)	Worldwide Gross (Cume)	Budget	Week #
Incredibles 2	$220,915	$607,796,484	$1,231,883,646	$200M	20
Ant-Man and the Wasp	$64,795	$216,622,024	$622,430,158	$162M	17
Crazy Rich Asians	$764,864	$172,475,065	$233,375,065	$30M	11

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Notable Film Closings

Title	Domestic Gross (Cume)	Worldwide Gross (Cume)	Budget
Mission: Impossible - Fallout	$220,159,104	$791,107,538	$178M

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Submitted October 29, 2018 at 08:52PM by mi-16evil https://ift.tt/2zcLjBp