Three days into its release, David Gordon Green’s Halloween has smashed box office records, raking in domestically $77m during its opening weekend, making it #1 at the box office, while also rendering it the biggest horror movie opening EVER with a female lead (in star Jamie Lee Curtis) and biggest movie opening of all time with a female lead over 55.
Additional records set include: second biggest horror movie opening ever, second biggest October movie opening ever, biggest opening for a slasher film ever (even adjusted for inflation), biggest Blumhouse debut, and biggest Halloween franchise opening ever.
Whew! Michael Myers truly has come home.
Said Halloween producer Malek Akkad of Trancas International Films, who’s been shepherding since 1995 the franchise his father Moustapha Akkad co-created in 1978 with director John Carpenter, Debra Hill and producer Irwin Yablans, “I’m thrilled to see the reinvigoration of something my father helped to start, and happy to see the overwhelmingly positive response of fans and critics alike to the return of Halloween. This weekend’s success and fervor over what we’ve been able to achieve is both humbling and altogether exciting, and it’s a testament to my producing partners Blumhouse, Miramax, Rough House and director David Gordon Green, and the incredible job Universal has done in the marketing and release of the film.”
The eleventh film in the franchise and co-written by director Green, Danny McBride and Jeff Fradley, Halloween is intended as a direct sequel to John Carpenter’s 1978 classic, and thusly disregards all of the series subsequent entries. Trancas International Films’ Akkad, Blumhouse’s Jason Blum and Miramax’s Bill Block produce, with McBride, Green and returning star Jamie Lee Curtis serving as executive producers, along with Ryan Freimann and series originator Carpenter, who also serves as the film’s composer.
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