Universal’s Halloween is on target for a sophomore weekend north of $30 million with the studio reporting Friday’s official estimate at $10.02 million. That’s off an expected 70 percent from opening day last week, which was fueled by a fan rush during the first 30-or-so hours of shows. The horror breakout crossed the $100 million domestic threshold yesterday, just its eighth of release, and now stands at $104.7 million going into Saturday. The studio projects a $30.05 million weekend, while Boxoffice is a little more bullish with a $32 million projection as of this morning.
A Star Is Born held its ground in second place with another $4.185 million yesterday, giving it just a 26 percent Friday-to-Friday drop and an updated domestic cume of $138.8 million. We’re projecting around $14 million for its fourth weekend in release.
Venom fell another 44 percent from last Friday despite no significant competition entering the market this weekend, taking in $2.865 million yesterday for an updated domestic haul of $179.35 million. The film has out-performed all pre-release expectations at this point as it heads toward a fourth frame near $10.2 million.
Lionsgate’s Hunter Killer bowed to $2.55 million on opening day Friday, including $420K from Thursday night’s early shows. That’s 41 percent behind fellow Gerard Butler pic Geostorm when it opened to $4.3 million on its first Friday one year ago. These results are within the realm of pre-release expectations though as we currently project an opening weekend around $8 million.
Goosebumps 2 rounded out the top five with a strong hold from last Friday, down just 29 percent to $1.8 million as it eyes a $7.1 million weekend.
mid90s scored a strong $1.307 million in its expansion to 1,206 locations yesterday, giving it $1.66 million in all thus far after debuting in platform release last week. Jonah Hill’s directorial debut could bring in north of $3.5 million this weekend.
Meanwhile, Indivisible opened to $605K yesterday, while Johnny English Strikes Again debuted to $515K. Universal projects a $1.54 million frame for the latter.
Early weekend estimates are below. Follow Boxoffice for more updates as they come.
Early Weekend Estimates (Domestic)
FRI, OCT. 26 – SUN, OCT. 28
# | TITLE | WEEKEND | LOCATIONS | AVG. | TOTAL | WKS. | DIST. | ||
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1 | Halloween (2018) | $32,000,000 | -58% | 3,990 | 62 | $8,020 | $126,656,400 | 2 | Universal Pictures |
2 | A Star is Born | $14,000,000 | -27% | 3,904 | 20 | $3,586 | $148,577,400 | 4 | Warner Bros. |
3 | Venom | $10,200,000 | -43% | 3,567 | -320 | $2,860 | $186,682,314 | 4 | Sony / Columbia |
4 | Hunter Killer | $8,000,000 | — | 2,728 | — | $2,933 | $8,000,000 | 1 | Lionsgate / Summit |
5 | Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween | $7,100,000 | -27% | 3,723 | 202 | $1,907 | $37,948,809 | 3 | Sony |
6 | The Hate U Give | $4,900,000 | -36% | 2,375 | 72 | $2,063 | $18,100,005 | 4 | 20th Century Fox |
7 | Smallfoot | $4,900,000 | -25% | 2,662 | -370 | $1,841 | $72,741,050 | 5 | Warner Bros. |
8 | First Man | $4,800,000 | -42% | 2,959 | -681 | $1,622 | $37,743,080 | 3 | Universal |
9 | Mid90s | $3,600,000 | 1295% | 1,206 | 1202 | $2,985 | $3,950,170 | 2 | A24 |
10 | Night School | $3,200,000 | -35% | 1,991 | -305 | $1,607 | $68,673,015 | 5 | Universal |
11 | The Old Man & The Gun | $1,800,000 | -16% | 1,042 | 240 | $1,727 | $7,214,097 | 5 | Fox Searchlight |
12 | Bad Times At The El Royale | $1,400,000 | -59% | 1,798 | -1010 | $779 | $16,593,736 | 3 | 20th Century Fox |
13 | The House With A Clock In Its Walls | $970,000 | -47% | 1,042 | -546 | $931 | $970,000 | 6 | Universal Pictures |
# | TITLE | WEEKEND | LOCATIONS | AVG. | TOTAL | WKS. | DIST. | ||
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1 | Indivisible | $1,700,000 | — | 830 | — | $2,048 | $1,700,000 | 1 | Pure Flix |
2 | Johnny English Strikes Again | $1,600,000 | — | 544 | — | $2,941 | $1,600,000 | 1 | Universal Pictures |
3 | The Sisters Brothers | $265,000 | -65% | 774 | -367 | $342 | $265,000 | 6 | Annapurna Pictures |
4 | Hell Fest | $190,000 | 142% | 907 | 644 | $209 | $10,991,623 | 5 | Lionsgate / CBS Films |
5 | Incredibles 2 | $145,000 | -17% | 160 | -16 | $906 | $607,905,484 | 20 | Disney |
6 | A Simple Favor | $140,000 | -61% | 222 | -270 | $631 | $53,215,320 | 7 | Lionsgate |
7 | Disney’s Christopher Robin | $95,000 | 56% | 148 | 40 | $642 | $98,836,950 | 13 | Disney |
# | TITLE | WEEKEND | LOCATIONS | AVG. | TOTAL | WKS. | DIST. | ||
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1 | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | $380,000 | 135% | 25 | 20 | $15,200 | $610,139 | 2 | Fox Searchlight |
2 | Ant-Man and the Wasp | $25,000 | -51% | 68 | -37 | $368 | $216,640,024 | 17 | Disney |
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