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It’s a Halloween Miracle: ‘Hocus Pocus’ Was #2 at the Box Office This Weekend, Right Behind ‘Tenet’
Even with Kenny Ortega’s 1993 classic Hocus Pocus airing on Freeform all month long as part of their annual “31 Nights of Halloween,” the family-friendly Halloween movie is incredibly at the #2 spot at the domestic box office nearly 30 years after its original release!
According to a Deadline report, Hocus Pocus was right behind Christopher Nolan’s Tenet on the weekend charts, the re-released Disney film making $1.925 million in 2,570 theaters.
Tenet, in its sixth week of release, pulled in $2.7 million over the weekend.
Also on the box office charts for the weekend? Tim Burton’s 1988 film Beetlejuice, which scared up $300,000 in just 346 theaters and came in at seventh place on the charts.
Brandon Cronenberg’s brand new movie Possessor, meanwhile, pulled in $227,500 in 320 theaters. The film, in its first week of theatrical release, is currently in the #9 slot.
The New Mutants made another $1 million this weekend, now $20.9 million total.
It’s now been five years since the release of sequel Happy Death Day 2U, Christopher Landon’s sequel to the Groundhog Day-style slasher movie from 2017. Both films star Jessica Rothe as final girl Tree Gelbman, and director Christopher Landon had been planning on bringing the character – and the actor – back for a third installment. So… where is it?!
We’ve been talking about a potential Happy Death Day 3 for several years now, with the ball in producer Jason Blum’s court. Happy Death Day 2U scared up $64 million at the worldwide box office, a far cry from the first film’s $125 million. But with a reported production budget of just $9 million, that first sequel was profitable for Blumhouse. So again… where is it?!
Chatting with Screen Geek this week while promoting her new action-thriller Boy Kills World, franchise star Jessica Rothe provided a hopeful update on Happy Death Day 3.
“Well, I can say Chris Landon has the whole thing figured out,” Rothe explains. “We just need to wait for Blumhouse and Universal to get their ducks in a row.
Rothe continues in her comments to Screen Geek, “But my fingers are so crossed. I think Tree [Gelbman] deserves her third and final chapter to bring that incredible character and franchise to a close or a new beginning.”
Back in 2020, Christopher Landon had revealed that the working title for the third installment was Happy Death Day to Us, said to be “different than the other two films.”
In the meantime, Christopher Landon is directing a mysterious thriller titled Drop for Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes, along with a werewolf movie titled Big Bad for Lionsgate.
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