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‘Smile’ Grins Even Wider at the Box Office With a $90 Million Worldwide Total So Far
The road to Halloween is being paved with all kinds of box office success for the horror genre, with four horror movies currently in the top 10 on the charts. Those movies include Bloody Disgusting’s own Terrifier 2, which opened to an incredible $1.2 million from select showings in just 886 theaters, as well as Smile, now in its second weekend of release.
Parker Finn‘s Smile had an incredible second weekend at the domestic box office, scaring up an additional $19 million from Thursday through Sunday. That brings the film’s domestic total up to $49.8 million, with the worldwide total ballooning to a massive $89.8 million!
The reported production budget for Smile was $17 million, which means Paramount Pictures has already far surpassed the point of profitability for their latest theatrical horror outing.
As pointed out by Deadline, Smile actually had the best second weekend hold at the box office for a rated “R” horror movie since Jordan Peele’s Get Out back in 2017!
To bring some additional context to that statistic, Smile opened to $22 million domestically in its first weekend of release, nearly matching that amount in its SECOND weekend.
Horror just keeps on winning as we head towards Halloween!
In the film, “After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter (Sosie Bacon) starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can’t explain.
“As an overwhelming terror begins taking over her life, Rose must confront her troubling past in order to survive and escape her horrifying new reality.”
Smile also stars Jesse T Usher (“The Boys”), Kal Penn, Rob Morgan (“Stranger Things”), Kyle Gallner (Scream 2022), and Caitlin Stasey (All Cheerleaders Die).
Meagan wrote in her Smile review for BD, “There’s a familiarity to the curse’s nature and formula, drawing easy comparisons to several beloved horror films. Even still, it’s well crafted and introduces a fresh feeling mythology, with some genuine scares along the way. Smile makes for a solid enough crowd pleaser heading into the Halloween season.”
Fresh off her starring role in the first season of Prime Video’s hit series “Fallout,” Ella Purnell (“Yellowjackets”) has booked a role in the upcoming horror-comedy The Scurry.
Screen Daily reports this morning that Ella Purnell has joined the cast of the now-filming horror comedy from director Craig Roberts, taking on “an avalanche of deranged squirrels.”
The site notes, “Ella Purnell will play the leading role of a park attendant who must use her unique skills and strength to survive a band of killer squirrels.”
“The film follows two pest controllers called to a country park café to investigate a routine vermin problem, only for an avalanche of deranged squirrels to descend at nightfall, wreaking mayhem on the staff and visitors in the park.”
Rhys Ifans (Spider-Man: No Way Home), Paapa Essiedu (Men), and Antonia Thomas (“The Good Doctor”) have all been previously announced to star in the upcoming movie.
Tim Telling wrote the screenplay for The Scurry.
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