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‘IT’ Shatters Massive ‘Deadpool’ Record at Thursday Box Office
It simply cannot be overstated how much an R rated horror movie doing *this* well is going to change horror, going forward. This is HUGE for us all, friends.
We’ve been predicting for several months now that Andy Muschietti’s IT was going to shatter all kinds of box office records for both horror and rated R cinema at large, and we’re incredibly happy to see that we weren’t off base in making those bold predictions.
The film just opened last night, and it has already broken a huge record.
Last night, IT scared up $13.5 million in Thursday night previews, beating the R-rated Thursday night record previously held by Deadpool ($12.7 million). That Thursday number is also the biggest in cinema history for a September release, as well as for a horror movie!
At this time, IT is projected to make $65 million-$70 million over the course of the entire weekend, which guarantees it the biggest opening weekend for a September release and for a horror movie. Honestly, we’re thinking even those insane estimates are on the low side.
In its domestic opening weekend, Deadpool scored over $100 million at the box office, which leads me to believe that IT very likely could be approaching that number. With incredibly positive word of mouth and many who have already seen the film hungry to go back and see it again, this one is going to be a box office MONSTER.
We’ll be tracking IT throughout the weekend…
A family sinks their teeth into a vicious vengeance quest in the first images from supernatural horror movie Sundown.
The latest from director Rebekah McKendry (Glorious, All the Creatures Were Stirring) has its World Premiere at the 79th Locarno Film Festival on August 13, 2026.
Sundown stars Olwen Fouéré (The Watchers, Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Camille Sullivan (Shelby Oaks, Hunter Hunter), and Summer H. Howell (Mike Flanagan’s “Carrie“) as the central family who’ll encounter what appear to be rather monstrous vampires.
The film follows “three generations of women who reunite in a remote cabin to avenge a loved one’s death, only to discover their captive isn’t who he seems to be and his family is closing in, waiting for sundown.“
Rebekah McKendry directs from a script by Glorious collaborators Joshua Hull and David Ian McKendry.
Daniel Bernhardt (Deathstalker, John Wick), David Alpay (“From”), Kyle Mac (Carrie 2013), Elisa Paszt, Junko Bailey (The Grudge 2019), Megan Best (Time Cut), and David Ian McKendry round out the cast.
The horror film features special effects makeup from Patrick Baxter (“Alien: Earth”, Ghostbusters: Afterlife), and other effects from Creature Cabin and Steven Kostanski’s Action Pants FX.
Producers include Pasha Patriki (Deathstalker), Michael Paszt, Andrew Thomas Hunt, & James Fler of Raven Banner (V/H/S/94, Deathgasm 2: Goremageddon) and Juliette Hagopian (Hunter Hunter). Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash executive produces via his BerserkerGang label alongside Michael Vasicek, Michael Da Silva, and Rodrigo Gudiño.
“Sundown is great,” said Slash. “It is a super tense family vs monster tale that is as claustrophobic as it is terrifying.”
Check out the intense first batch of images below and stay tuned for more.
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