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‘IT’ Tops $300M at the Box Office While ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Underperforms

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It took only five weeks for New Line Cinema’s IT to top $300M domestically as early estimates put the Stephen King adaptation at $9.6M for the weekend for a total of $305M. Worldwide is sitting at $298M (we’ll update this as soon as we have numbers), which means worldwide has officially topped $600M. IT‘s still not even close to The Sixth Sense or The Exorcist.

Warner Bros.’ other genre film, Blade Runner 2049, underperformed in its #1 spot. Early reports pegged it topping $40M only early estimates now have it at $31M.  (Update: It also made $50M internationally.) While it carried a strong Cinemascore, the movie did run at nearly 3 hours, limiting the number of showings in the 4,000+ theaters. It was also R-rated, which typically can have a negative impact on box office. ERCboxoffice notes a perfect comp: The Mummywhich ended its run with $80M domestically ($400M worldwide). Blade Runner 2049 carries a reported $150M budget, which means it will need over $600M worldwide to break even. Not happening. It’s a bummer, too, as Blade Runner 2049 is a unique and artistic film that really breaks the norm of what we’d expect a studio to release. This underperforming, much like Paramount’s over-priced mother!, could put an end to studio risks until the next one breaks out.

Speaking of, mother! is working its way out of theaters quickly. It barely topped $350k this weekend in just 420 theaters. It sits at $17M domestic and $39M worldwide. If the budget weren’t a ridiculous $30M, it would have possibly recouped its budget (plus marketing). Instead, write this one up as a massive flop.

Another flop is Sony’s Flatliners remake, which found it’s way up to 4% on Rotten Tomatoes. It only dropped 43% this weekend and made another $3.8M for a total of $12.3M. On a budget of $20M, the second weekend of international only pulled in $3M more. Brutal. Right now it sits at $18M worldwide.

Let’s see how Happy Death Day performs next weekend, with Jigsaw waiting in the wings for Oct. 27.

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‘Ebenezer’ Official Trailer – Ti West Turns Johnny Depp into ‘A Christmas Carol’ Icon Scrooge

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Ti West (X, Pearl, MaXXXine) is back with the upcoming Ebenezer starring Johnny Depp, a fresh new take on the classic tale of A Christmas Carol from Charles Dickens.

Johnny Depp will play Ebenezer Scrooge in Ti West’s Ebenezer, and Paramount is bringing the film to theaters on November 13, 2026. Watch the official trailer down below.

The tagline? “The name you know. The story you don’t.”

Andrea Riseborough (Possessor), Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings), Tramell Tillman (“Severance”), Rupert Grint (Harry Potter franchise), Daisy Ridley (Star Wars franchise), Sam Claflin (The Hunger Games franchise), Charlie Murphy (“Peaky Blinders”), Arthur Conti (Beetlejuice Beetlejuice), and Ellie Bamber (“Willow”) also star.

Deadline had detailed in a recent report, “This version, a thrilling ghost story set in Dickens’ London, follows one man’s supernatural journey to face his past, present and future and fight for a second chance. Stephen Deuters and Jason Forman to executive produce.”

Nathaniel Halpern wrote the adaptation for Ti West to direct.

Written by Charles Dickens, the classic tale of A Christmas Carol has been adapted for the screen countless times over the years, with notable film adaptations including Scrooge (1951) starring Alastair Sim, Scrooge (1970) starring Albert Finney, A Christmas Carol (1984) starring George C. Scott, Scrooged (1988) starring Bill Murray, The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) starring Michael Caine, and A Christmas Carol (2009) starring Jim Carrey.

A Christmas Carol is classically a period piece ghost story. As Luiz H.C. wrote here on Bloody Disgusting, “Isn’t it weird how the single most influential piece of Christmas-related media is technically a horror story? One can even make the argument that Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol paved the way for the rise of Victorian Spiritualism during the following decade.”

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