I do think IT is going to be the BO story of the year.
WW and BATB were both insane, but they were still both behemoth, family friendly properties, releasing in BO friendly time periods.
IT isnt just a hard R property, but it's a hard R horror film. It beat the horror OW record and September OW record in its OD. It's also doing all of this in September, on NFL opening weekend, with a hurricane shutting down maybe 4-6% of its audience, while also not being a holiday weekend at all.