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‘Halloween’ Tops Box Office With Another $32 Million ($172M Global); ‘Suspiria’ Opens *Huge* In Limited Release
The David Gordon Green-directed Halloween sequel has slashed up the competition for the second straight week, topping the box office with another estimated $32M domestic, and another $42 total international. Its $172M global take makes it the first film in the entire franchise to top $100M. Next week it will best $200M and will quite possibly hit $250M. The budget is reported at $10M, which makes this a booming hit. Michael Myers will be back.
As for Amazon Studios’ remake of Dario Argento’s Suspiria, it scored an insane $89,003 per screen average in just two theaters in New York and Los Angeles. It goes wider next weekend, which could prove interesting. As ERC Box Office notes, this is bigger than The Shape of Water‘s per and one of the biggest limited openings in years.
Venom, Columbia Pictures’ Spider-Man spinoff, has just topped $500M worldwide. As of this writing, it added another $10.8M domestic and also just hit $321 international for a global take of $508M. Next stop, $600M, which seems likely.
All other genre films slowly adding to the pile are Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween at $62.6M global, Eli Roth’s The House With a Clock In Its Walls at $111M and Hell Fest at $13.6M.
Mia Goth as Sara and Dakota Johnson as Susie star in Suspiria
A bedtime lullaby soothes an unsettling newborn in our exclusive clip from Nightborn, from Hatching filmmaker Hanna Bergholm.
The dark fable makes its debut on Shudder on July 31.
Seidi Haarla (Compartment No. 6) and Rupert Grint (Knock at the Cabin, “Servant”) star as new parents in Nightborn, and this exclusive clip highlights mom’s harrowing transition into motherhood.
In Nightborn, “With dreams of starting a perfect family, Saga and her British husband Jon move to the isolated house where she spent much of her childhood, deep in the Finnish forest. But as soon as their baby is born, despite the reassurance of all around her, Saga knows there’s something terribly wrong with her son. As their marriage starts to crack, Jon struggles to support his wife, but only Saga suspects the terrible truth about her newborn.”
Pamela Tola, Pirkko Saisio, Rebecca Lacey and John Thomson also star.
Bergholm teased of her maternal horror movie, “In Nordic countries, there’s a long-standing mythology of trolls living in the forests. In ancient times, people truly believed that trolls inhabited the woods and had a kind of control over nature. And in Nightborn, the forest reflects Saga’s emotions and the animalistic, primitive physical side of humankind.”
“Hanna Bergholm’s audacious sophomore follow up to Hatching delivers tension and shocking moments surrounding parenthood and self discovery — with a touch of humor,” said Emily Gotto, senior vice president of acquisitions and production at Shudder. “We are thrilled to share Nightborn with audiences.”
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