Michael Myers told Art the Clown to get the hell off his lawn. Meanwhile, ‘Till’ will earn around $245,000 on its opening weekend in just sixteen theaters.
Universal and Blumhouse’s Halloween Ends easily topped the domestic box office on Friday with a solid $20.21 million. That’s reasonably on par with the $22.8 million Friday gross for Halloween Kills and positions the Jamie Lee Curtis/ Andi Matichak/Rohan Campbell slasher for an over/under $43 million opening weekend. Again, that compares just fine with the $49 million launch of Halloween Kills last October. The threequel was always going to be more frontloaded and open smaller than its immediate predecessor and the pie-in-the-sky Halloween ($77 million from a $33 million Friday). We’re talking about a trilogy that cost a combined $63 million, whose first installment grossed $256 million worldwide. The next two were pure gravy.
The reviews are slightly better for this installment (45% and 5.3/10 on Rotten Tomatoes versus 38% and 5/10 for Halloween Kills) and the C+ Cinemascore grade is on par with Halloween Kills’ B-. Back in my day, nobody expected The Babysitter Killer Strikes for the 12th Time! to get good reviews. This threequel, picking up four years after Halloween Kills, is more of an epilogue to the Laurie Strode/Michael Myers saga.
