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1,000 screens should get jacked in the next two weeks, but they should re-expand back to those or keep them for a month. it takes a while to buy a ticket, they should just pre-release them 3 months in advance.

did not live up to expectations. felt like a monster of the week X-Files episode which has me in the mood to order Jurassic World 2 right now. I did like it, I just see Halloween 8 being more of a memorable thriller/horror.

you know there is a problem when you get up early Saturday morning to see a Halloween movie 40 years in the making and when you leave you see a problem that it might have not lived up to anyone's expectations. This is an assault on the memory.

it feels like JLC was not interested with the original direction of the series, but i'm afraid this new Halloween is already yesterdays news. Even mother! probably still holds up better w/ feminism & babadook runoffs this one could have went to Netflix similar to Hellraiser sequels.

millions of non-franchise fans likely got lured to this one. if the brand didn't steal the money, it took their time. Halloween might have good legs because of this. because it has already bought the time from an extra couple million or so

I don't expect WOM to be that decent for Halloween. Probably 10-20% of the franchise fans will be seeking this one out on retail

What the hell were they thinking making this movie? I see how it is a different version of what could have happened, but still.... it is like they took everything superficial out of the franchise and anything cheesy or homage was copy + pasted in. some of the scenes seemed to be just filler, to complete the runtime, idk if the production or directors even knew what they were making. it is decent as a psychological horror if you faintly remember the first Halloween, but if you are going to replace all the superficial with random psychological scenes in need of creative counseling, just start with doing away with the title Halloween for beginners... B as a horror movie D as a Halloween movie

2011 had a string of duds with Fright Night, Apollo 18, and Shark Attack + like 3 others.... all classic remakes back in August. I still think it is silly they cancelled the Ft13th found footage/handheld camera movie

the Friday # was a good catch in the box office bottle. Careful inspection of Saturday crowd reports and comparisons necessary to find an increase today. Venom did a little over 26, IT made like 45. 25.6 + 26.2 + 17.0 + 7.7 = 76.5 Logan had a good near40% increase Saturday, so maybe 30 Saturday is possible with Halloween, but it is still going to have to catch a lot of fans who still have yet to see it + general interest

https://variety.com/2018/film/box-office/halloween-opening-weekend-box-office-1202985800/ ‘Halloween’ to Make a Killing With Opening Weekend in Mid-$70 Millions Universal’s second weekend of space epic “First Man,” starring Ryan Gosling, is in a three-way fight for fourth place with Sony’s sophomore session of “Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween” and Fox’s expanded run of drama “The Hate U Give” to 2,303 locations. Friday’s estimates showed “The Hate U Give,” starring Amandla Stenberg, and “Goosebumps 2” in the $9 million to $10 million range, followed by “First Man” at about $8.5 million.

Gaga doesn't seem to want to zoom up on the charts from weekdays to Fri+sat+sun the way that Venom does.

the millennial generation got armed up well in film with the Star Wars Prequels + Lord of the Rings + The Matrix. idk if the MCU and DCU are a bit more tamed down for the new generation? in video games, Star Wars always seems to be the one to beat. In the last 5 years though, i assume online universal maps with arena battles probably favor MCU and DCU now by a large majority.

Hate U Give should be lucky to get 2.7 on Friday including previews

Spidey-verse likely to open in less than < 4,000 screens

Halloween's Thursday 7.7 figure averaged 260 purchases per venue double that to 520 today, or go 2.5x Thursday capacity to get 650 purchases per venue Friday which translates 18.93 - 23.67 + 7.7 in previews 500-700 people per theater at Halloween gives like 1 sold out 7pm show + 1 full capacity thereafter w/ expanded shows. with 8-10 million expected with Thursday previews, and only getting 260 purchases per afterwards, just doubling Thursday night madness to Friday and getting around 60ish on the weekend seems like a fail on paper and could deflate expectations going forward with other pent-up demand classic openers like this. I expect more of the rural parts of the nation will be getting to this on Saturday and Sunday so hopefully there is a small Saturday bump.

I bombed the derby pretty fucking bad with my Halloween prediction. I was settling for 75 and then I put it at 76 OW the last minute. With the deflated previews relative to Deadline's 8-10, Halloween is looking to limp to 70 million. 62.3 + 7.7 = 70.0

what a mess

Houston winning?

ouch, not looking good for Halloween if 10pm West Coast shows are only half full 2 hours in advance... sub 8 million Thursday a probability

the other flush...

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too far away on the schedule. good luck, they will have to catch big #'s in the right movement

Not good for Johnny English. The audience/money that exists for this just got cut by half. This makes 220 reachable with Venom.

anyone here play free online poker while web browsing? get any 'me too' moments where the hands don't go your way?

it should help sell this one if they go more comedy like Zorro and less drama like Russel Crowe's 2010 Robin Hood. one of the rare instances where comedy helps a movie IMO I am expecting this to flop and do #'s that are around 2/3 of what Legend of Tarzan (2016) did