Eric the Clown

At this point, Ted Bundy could rise from the grave, say "streaming services suck lol", and Deadline Anthony would be all "you know, this guy was on to something". Their anti-streaming bit's just gotten old at this point.

Don’t worry. I know Smile is likely to be ahead of Halloween next weekend

Can confirm. I got the trailer for this in front of TGM and my parents and I were laughing our butts off at how dumb the concept was. A bunch of creepy smiles? That’s a whole horror movie? They ran out of ideas at this rate. But then I saw that reviews were good and I was taken aback by it. Made me legit intrigued. Ended up just thinking the movie was a fine 6/10 like Black Phone. But like Black Phone, I get the legs. Simple, easy to convey premise, a strong emotional backstory for the main character, a lot of good scares peppered in. There’s little reason for people not to like it, outside of just not liking scary movies altogether.

That's still 74%. An 80+% drop would mean an 8.25M weekend. Only 15 movies have dropped more than 80% on their second weekends. And of them I only recognize like...six of them off the top of my head. Two of them are re-releases of classic films, so they don't even count. Plus these are films that seem to be from smaller studios, lost theaters in their second weekend, and only played in a couple hundred theaters anyways. Halloween Kills is almost guaranteed to retain almost all its locations, so an 80+% drop is nearly impossible. It would have to have as good a calendar for its opening as Friday the 13th (it didn't) or have WOM as atrocious as Gigli (it doesn't). If even The Devil Inside, a film with perhaps the worst WOM in cinema history, only dropped 76%, I think Halloween Kills isn't going to fall worse than that.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-26 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 246 5306 42932 12.36% Total Seats Sold Today: 81 Comp 0.701x of Doctor Strange 2 T-26 (25.25M)

Black Adam Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-5 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 89 1244 18518 6.72% Total Seats Sold Today: 122 Comp 0.961x of F9 T-5 (6.83M) 0.406x of Black Widow T-5 (5.36M) 2.434x of The Suicide Squad T-5 (9.98M) 0.696x of Shang-Chi T-5 (6.13M) 0.979x of Venom 2 T-5 (11.36M) 1.023x of No Time to Die T-5 (6.44M) 0.534x of Eternals T-5 (5.08M) 1.228x of Morbius T-5 (7M) 1.197x of Fantastic Beasts 3 T-5 (7.18M) 0.498x of Jurassic World 3 T-5 (8.96M)

I'm not saying it'll have an amazing drop, but I don't see 80% for its second weekend at all? Like the only comparable was the 2009 Friday the 13th, which dealt with the 13th on its Friday and to an extent Valentine's Day the next day. That's some big holidays to help boost the film's opening, and it's not like Halloween will be over tomorrow. There's sure to be some people who will visit the film next week to get into the Halloween spirit. A drop in the 70s makes more sense.

Just got back from it. Me and the two other people in the audience were all laughing our asses off. I wish it was 2010 again, so that this movie would actually make the money it deserves. Pity that.

Deadline Top 10

Sales seem pretty soft in Philly, at least when I did a quick scan yesterday. I guess Americans just have a comedy problem? But I also acknowledge this isn't a pre-sales driven film, we should get a clearer picture on Monday, blah blah blah. Hopefully it does well of course.

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-27 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 246 5225 42932 12.17% Total Seats Sold Today: 114 Comp 0.716x of Doctor Strange 2 T-27 (25.77M)

Black Adam Greater Philadelphia Area Seat Report T-6 and Counting Sellouts Showings Seats Sold Total Seats Perct Sold TOTALS 0 89 1122 18518 6.06% Total Seats Sold Today: 90 Comp 0.983x of F9 T-6 (6.98M) 0.391x of Black Widow T-6 (5.17M) 2.434x of The Suicide Squad T-6 (9.98M) 0.671x of Shang-Chi T-6 (5.9M) 1.004x of Venom 2 T-6 (11.65M) 0.985x of No Time to Die T-6 (6.21M) 0.514x of Eternals T-6 (4.88M) 1.172x of Morbius T-6 (6.68M) 1.160x of Fantastic Beasts 3 T-6 (6.96M) 0.478x of Jurassic World 3 T-6 (8.61M)

Didn't notice any of those and I don't participate in the Derby. I just remember seeing a bunch of people saying it'll do like 35M or 40M. Guess I'm wrong tho ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Feel like Remember Me is the only movie that nobody has ever seen in full, but everybody miraculously knows what the ending to the film is.

I mean all things considered, for a maligned conclusion that's following up a despised predecessor and is dealing with big direct competition from Smile, I think only a few million less than Halloween Kills is pretty darn good. Way ahead of the 35M predictions everybody, including me, had going into the weekend. And it's still midday Deadline. We could still see an increase from these projections tomorrow morning

https://deadline.com/2022/10/box-office-halloween-ends-1235144913/

Quorum Updates Call Jane T-15: 18.67% Awareness, 4.71 Interest Tar T-15: 11.23%, 4.25 One Piece Film: Red T-22: 20.87%, 4.61 Strange World T-41: 25.14%, 5.09 M3gan T-92: 22.2%, 5.39 Cocaine Bear T-134: 13.7%, 5.12 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse T-232: 46.63%, 6.29 The Menu T-36: 19.68% Awareness, 5.0 Interest Comps (All T-30): The Protege w/ 16.48% Awareness & 5.54, Last Night in Soho w/ 22.04% & 4.72, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent w/ 17.58% & 5.16, The Woman King w/ 19.76% & 4.84 T-30 General Awareness: 35% chance of double digits General Interest: 72% chance of double-digits Original - Low Awareness: 36% chance of 5M, 18% chance of 10M Original - Low Interest: 67% chance of 5M, 33% chance of 10M Avatar: The Way of Water T-64: 65.87% Awareness, 6.41 Interest Comps (All T-60): F9 w/ 49.77% Awareness & 5.78 Interest, Top Gun: Maverick w/ 50.6% & 5.82, Jurassic World: Dominion w/ 64.73% & 7.06 T-60 General Awareness: 100% chance of 100M General Interest: 100% chance of 50M, 83% chance of 100M Tentpole Awareness: 100% chance of 100M Tentpole Interest: 100% chance of 100M