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UPDATE: ‘Friday the 13th’ Set To Break Box Office Records
Update: This is the best domestic opening day ever for an R-rated horror-slasher pic. Update #2: The latest estimate brings Friday in with $45m over the four day weekend. I know many of you are sick of hearing about Jason Voorhees at this point, but come on, even if you didn’t like the movie, it’s still pretty awesome getting to see him on his feet again slaying at Camp Crystal Lake. This morning we just got our hands on the official “projected” box office numbers for this holiday weekend and was floored. According to reports, New Line Cinema’s Friday the 13th reboot is set to make nearly $20m on Friday alone and estimated to bring in $60m over the four day holiday weekend. This has to be one of (if not the) biggest horror openings of all-time. You can read on for the box office report and don’t forget to write your own review of the film in our user review section of the film, head to our forum and rank the F13 films and read all of our 13 Days of Jason. It’s pretty safe to say a sequel is on its way.
Rank* Title
(Click to view chart) Friday
2/13
(Estimates) Saturday
2/14
(Estimates) Sunday
2/15
(Estimates) Monday
2/16
(Estimates)
1 FRIDAY THE 13TH (2009)
Warner Bros. (New Line)
3,105 $19,350,000
— / $6,232
$19,350,000 / 1 $14,350,000
-25.8% / $4,622
$33,700,000 / 2 $7,010,000
-51.1% / $2,258
$40,710,000 / 3 $4,500,000
-35.8% / $1,449
$45,210,000 / 4
Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?
The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.
THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”
You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.
The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.
More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.
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