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Halloween Slays the Competition; Still #1 at the Box Office

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For the second week in a row, director David Gordon Green’s Halloween has slain its competitors and has broken box office records in the process.

Having raked in an estimated $32 million domestically over the weekend, which brings its domestic total to $126 million, achieving the coveted $200 million mark isn’t far from reach. Internationally, Halloween now holds the number one spot in sixty two markets, making its international earnings $45.6 million. Cumulatively that puts the film’s earnings at $172 million, putting it well on the way to becoming the second highest grossing R-rated horror film EVER.

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, biggest Halloween franchise opening ever, 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 fifty-five.

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.

Check out the film’s trailer below, and get your film tickets here.

#1 at the Box Office, Halloween Smashes Records

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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.

Check out the film’s trailer below, and get your film tickets here.

Halloween: 40 Years of Terror Convention is Happening Now

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Presented by HorrorHound Ltd., Sean Clark, Trancas International Films and Compass International Pictures, the Halloween: 40 Years of Terror convention which runs today, October 12th through the 14th at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California is upon us, and promises to be the biggest celebration ever of the storied, four decade-spanning franchise.

Featuring celebrity guests from all eleven films in the franchise (the impressive list, which includes notable cast, directors and crew is massive and continues to grow, and contains many first-time ever appearances), one-of-a-kind events, special gallery offerings, cast Q&As, a Horror’s Hallowed Grounds location bus tour, exclusive H40 and Halloween merchandise offerings, a Saturday night after party with live music by Halloween 4, 5 & 6 composer Alan Howarth, myriad vendors and much more, it’s an event not to be missed.

With VIP tickets having already SOLD OUT, admission to the Halloween: 40 Years of Terror convention CAN STILL be obtained here (although I’d predict not for long, so don’t dawdle). For further information on the convention, including schedule, lodging and more, visit the official site here, and stay up to date with them on the convention’s Facebook page here.

Download the Halloween 4 HHN Hollywood App

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With Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers mazes currently underway at both Universal Studios Hollywood and Orlando as part of the two theme parks’ yearly attractions Halloween Horror Nights, HalloweenMovies.com is happy to announce the HHN Hollywood app for iPhone or Android, currently available for free (just search for HHN Hollywood) in the app store.

Featuring a Halloween series timeline, a maze overview, and over 100 trivia questions and more which HalloweenMovies.com helped curate, the HHN Hollywood app will not only prep you for your trip to Haddonfield in the Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers maze, but for the other Halloween Horror Nights Hollywood mazes which await, from The Horrors of Blumhouse Chapter Two to Poltergeist and beyond.

For more on the Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers maze at HHN Hollywood, check out our exclusive video tour of the then under-construction attraction with HHN creative director John Murdy, Halloween 4 director Dwight H. Little and Trancas International’s own Malek Akkad below.

For more information about Halloween Horror Nights at either Universal Studios Hollywood or Universal Orlando Resort, visit them here, and engage with them on social media using @UniStudios @HorrorNights #UniversalHHN

Halloween Tickets Are Now On Sale!

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No tricks, just treats! With the frenzy nearing a fever pitch for David Gordon Green’s upcoming and hotly-anticipated Halloween, tickets for what is shaping up to be the movie event of the season have now gone on pre-sale at Fandango!

Having received rave reviews from its premiere screenings at Toronto International Film Festival, Fantastic Fest and Salem Horror Fest, you can NOW BUY TICKETS HERE to see the film when it bows in theaters everywhere from Universal Pictures on October 19th.

Says Variety’s Peter Debruge of the film, “David Gordon Green does horror fans a favor, bringing Michael Myers’ slasher-movie saga back to its roots,” while Katie Walsh of Nerdist proclaims: “David Gordon Green delivers the best Halloween sequel ever.”

That’s not all. Leah Greenblatt of Entertainment Weekly states, “Long live Michael Myers, so maybe someone can finally kill him — in a big, funny, scary, squishy, super-meta sequel that brings it all back to John Carpenter’s iconic 1978 original,” Dreadcentral’s Jonathan Barkan muses, “After years of waiting for a Halloween sequel that felt like it did justice to John Carpenter’s original masterpiece of slasher horror, David Gordon Green has brought us a vision of terror that gives fans what they’ve been craving,” and originating filmmaker Carpenter himself has declared that following his 1978 original, Green’s is the best in the franchise.

The eleventh film in the series and co-written by director Green, Danny McBride and Jeff Fradley, Halloween is intended as a direct sequel to Carpenter’s ‘78 film, and thusly disregards all of the series subsequent entries. Trancas International Films’ Malek Akkad, Blumhouse’s Jason Blum and Bill Block produce, with McBride, Green and star Jamie Lee Curtis serving as executive producers, along with Ryan Freimann and series originator Carpenter, who also serves as the film’s composer.

Exclusive NYCC Halloween Poster Revealed

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With New York Comic Con in full effect now through Sunday, legendary artist Todd McFarlane has unveiled his brand new exclusive-to-NYCC poster for David Gordon Green’s upcoming October release of Halloween.

Want one? It’s simple. Just follow the film’s official Twitter account @halloweenmovie for updates from #NYCC this weekend.

Halloween next plays tomorrow, October 6th at Beyond Fest in Hollywood, CA at the Egyptian Theater as part of ‘Halloween Day’ (along with 1974’s Black Christmas and 1978’s Halloween, with Halloween series producer Malek Akkad in person, and more) before opening wide in theaters on October 19th, 2018 via Universal Pictures.

Co-written by director Green, Danny McBride and Jeff Fradley, Halloween is produced by Trancas International Films’ Akkad, Blumhouse’s Jason Blum and Bill Block, with McBride, Green and star Jamie Lee Curtis serving as executive producers, along with Ryan Freimann and series originator John Carpenter, the latter who also serves as the film’s composer.

40th Anniversary Halloween Memorabilia Sweepstakes – Enter to Win

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To celebrate the re-release of the classic Halloween in theaters (out now!), CineLife is giving away more than twenty copies of John Carpenter’s Halloween 40th Anniversary 4K Ultra HD + Blu-Ray Combo Pack, and more! Read on to enter.

Prizes are set to include a copy of the 4K Ultra HD + Blu-Ray Combo Pack (which features an audio commentary track with writer/director Carpenter and star Jamie Lee Curtis, as well as the featurettes “The Night She Came Home” and “On Location: 25 Years Later”), a 40th Anniversary Halloween pin and t-shirt, and Halloween posters from both the 1978 film and David Gordon Green’s upcoming sequel (signed by Halloween series producer Malek Akkad), due in theaters this October 19th from Universal Pictures.

To enter, download the Free CineLife mobile app for iOS and/or Android and click on the Halloween button.

For theater listings and show times of Carpenter’s classic, now playing nationwide, go here.

Care to purchase copy of the Halloween 40th Anniversary 4K ULTRA HD™ + BLU-RAY™ COMBO PACK now? You can do that here.

It’s beginning to feel a lot like October!

Myers Menaces on First Cover of Re-launched Fangoria Magazine

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Last night HalloweenMovies.com attended the re-launch party for revered Fangoria magazine in Burbank, CA, and with the 114-page issue jam-packed with Halloween goodness, here’s a peek within.

Held at Slashback Video (the celebrated faux indie horror video rental shop art installation created by Ciara Aumentado and Halloween 2018 co-producer Ryan Turek, which is housed within Magnolia Park’s Bearded Lady’s Mystic Museum), the re-launch was hosted by Fangoria’s new publisher Dallas Sonnier and Editor-in-Chief Phil Nobil Jr., and included (among the dozens of attendees) Halloween 2018 executive producer Ryan Freimann and Academy-award winning FX artist and Myers mask sculptor Chris Nelson.

First published in 1979, Fangoria served as essential monthly reading for horror fans worldwide, until its collapse in 2015 due to financial woes.  With the assets of Fangoria having subsequently been purchased by Texas-based entertainment company Cinestate, the genre mag has now however returned as a quarterly publication, and it’s first issue is chock full of Haddonfield horror, with no less than seven articles on the series, including set visit coverage to David Gordon Green’s upcoming Halloween.

Additional Myers-centric articles include The Two Shapes Speak (an interview with actors Nick Castle and James Jude Courtney), David Gordon Green: Detour through Haddonfield (an interview with the writer and director), articles titled The Changing Shape and Halloween’s Abandoned Continuity (which delve into the franchise’s various installments and narratives), The Bastard Sons (and Daughters) of Michael Myers (a look at the original film’s impact on the slasher genre) and Lifers: My Myers House, which focuses on North Carolina resident Kenny Caperton’s recreation of the Pasadena, CA home which appeared in John Carpenter’s 1978 classic.

In addition, the magazine’s heavy with images from the latest Halloween, including the exclusive cover photo by Dan Winters.

Fangoria issue #1 is shipping now. To get your hands on a copy, subscribe here. For more on Slashback Video, ‘like’ them on Facebook at and follow them on Twitter and Instagram @SlashbackVideo

Halloween next plays on October 6th at Beyond Fest in Hollywood, CA at the Egyptian Theater as part of ‘Halloween Day’ (along with 1974’s Black Christmas and 1978’s Halloween, with Halloween series producer Malek Akkad in person, and more) before opening wide in theaters on October 19th, 2018 via Universal Pictures.

Co-written by director Green, Danny McBride and Jeff Fradley, Halloween is produced by Trancas International Films’ Malek Akkad, Blumhouse’s Jason Blum and Bill Block, with McBride, Green and star Jamie Lee Curtis serving as executive producers, along with Ryan Freimann and John Carpenter, the latter who also serves as the film’s composer.

Haddonfield Comes to Pasadena, CA October 12-14 with Halloween: 40 Years of Terror

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Tickets to the biggest Halloween convention in history are now on sale. Get yours before they sell out!

Presented by HorrorHound Ltd., Sean Clark, Trancas International Films and Compass International Pictures, the Halloween: 40 Years of Terror convention, running October 12th through the 14th at the Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, California is nearly upon us, and promises to be the biggest celebration ever of the storied, four decade-spanning franchise.

Featuring celebrity guests from all eleven films in the franchise (the impressive list, which includes notable cast, directors and crew is massive and continues to grow, and contains many first-time ever appearances), one-of-a-kind events, special gallery offerings, cast Q&As, a Horror’s Hallowed Grounds location bus tour, exclusive H40 and Halloween merchandise offerings, myriad vendors and much more, it’s an event not to be missed.

With VIP tickets having already SOLD OUT, admission to the Halloween: 40 Years of Terror convention CAN STILL be obtained here (although I’d predict not for long, so don’t dawdle). For further information on the convention, including schedule, lodging and more, visit the official site here, and stay up to date with them on the convention’s Facebook page here.

John Carpenter’s Halloween Returns to Theaters TODAY

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Celebrating its 40th anniversary, John Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic is being re-released in advance of David Gordon Green’s sequel, and returns to theaters beginning today, September 27th, 2018.

For theaters and showtimes, please visit CineLifeEntertainment.com.

Read on for further and exciting details!

From the press release:

LOS ANGELES, CA – Cinelife Entertainment, the event cinema division of Spotlight Cinema Networks, has teamed up with Compass International Pictures and Trancas International Films Compass International Pictures and to bring John Carpenter’s seminal 1978 classic back to select theaters worldwide beginning September 27, 2018.

In the film, the villain, Michael Myers, has spent the last 15 years locked away inside a sanitarium under the care of child psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis. On October 30, 1978, Myers escapes and makes his way back home to Haddonfield, turning a night of tricks and treats into something much more sinister for three young women, including Laurie Strode, the star-making role for Jamie Lee Curtis.

The original Halloween will be released on over 1,000 screens in over twenty countries across the globe. “I’m thrilled to have the original make its way back into theatres, as we prepare for the release of the sequel. Having both back in theatres this fall is remarkable,” says director John Carpenter.

Fans will be treated to view big screen presentations of the restored and remastered digital print, created under the supervision of the world-renowned cinematographer, Dean Cundey.

“We are thrilled to be a part of the 40th anniversary celebration, working with Compass International Pictures and Trancas International Films to bring the most fear-provoking and enduring horror movies of all time to cinema screens around the globe,” said Mark Rupp, Managing Director, CineLife Entertainment.

The release of John Carpenter’s Original Halloween comes just ahead of the release of Halloween (2018) – the direct sequel to John Carpenter’s classic. Jamie Lee Curtis and Nick Castle reprise their roles as Laurie Strode and Michael Myers, respectively. It is set for release on October 19th, a week before the 40th anniversary of the original Halloween release date.