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Despite Huge Weekend for ‘Crazy Rich Asians,’ Rob Zombie’s ‘Halloween’ Still Holds Labor Day Box Office Record
Eleven years ago, Rob Zombie polarized the horror community with the release of his Halloween, a remake of John Carpenter’s classic film that dove deep into the origin story of the mysterious “shape,” Michael Myers. You may love it. You may hate it.
Either way, it was a MONSTER at the box office.
All these years later, Rob Zombie’s Halloween still holds the record for highest-grossing Labor Day Weekend in cinema history. Across the film’s four-day opening weekend back in 2007, Halloween pulled in $30,591,759 at the domestic box office, a number few movies have even come close to reaching in the past ten years.
The closest competitors? The Sixth Sense and Crazy Rich Asians, which just nabbed $28 million in its third weekend. An incredible feat, but one that doesn’t unseat Halloween.
Halloween‘s 11-year-long record was celebrated on Zombie’s website this week…
“Rob Zombie’s Halloween was released in 2007, and broke the Labor Day Weekend Box Office with a $30.5* million weekend gross (previously held by M. Night Shyamalan’s “The Sixth Sense” with $29,271,146*). Ever since then, many have tried valiantly to unseat Big Mike from that record, including The Possession, Morgan, Lawless, Don’t Breathe and a teeny-tiny pop band called One Direction, but all have failed.
This Labor Day Weekend, director Jon M. Chu’s critically acclaimed comedy, Crazy Rich Asians, took on the challenge and almost killed Mike off, taking in a weekend gross of $28,310,000*. That means for the ELEVENTH YEAR RUNNING, Rob Zombie’s Halloween reigns supreme over the coveted 4 day weekend market.
Congrats to Crazy Rich Asians for the great effort and thank you for helping make Halloween a success.”
Hooray for horror. And hooray for Crazy Rich Asians, an original film that almost beat Halloween‘s opening weekend in its *third weekend* of release. Now that’s truly remarkable!
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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