Halloween Ends ends Smile’s smiling run at the top of the weekend box office
David Gordon Green's trilogy ends with a solid opening, even if it won't set the world on fire
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Halloween Ends may have largely disregarded the events of Halloween Kills (a clever conceit that we haven’t seen since J.J. Abrams threw The Last Jedi in the trash for his own crummy trilogy-ender), but one thing it’s not disregarding is the U.S. box office. Yes, after two weeks of Smile, the end of David Gordon Green’s Halloween reboot trilogy took the top spot on the charts this weekend with a solid $41 million debut—especially considering its simultaneous premiere on Peacock, which is a sore subject for Freaky director Christopher Landon.
After Halloween Ends is Smile, which added $12.4 million to its total and is now sitting at $71 million after three weeks. Then we have Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile with $7.3 million ($22 million after two weeks), The Woman King with $3.6 million ($59 million after five weeks), and finishing up the top five is Amsterdam with $2.8 million ($11 million after two weeks). Of the bottom five, only Don’t Worry Darling and Barbarian made over $1 million, both of which are also hanging around the $40 million mark. The final three were Bros, Terrifier 2, and—after 21 weeks on the charts and still playing in 900 theaters—Top Gun: Maverick. It has now made $715 million, but now that it’s not making over $1 million every week, it’s probably going to hang there. Or maybe Paramount will rerelease it with new footage and it’ll bounce back and make a cool $1 billion.
Elsewhere on the chart, Till and Decision To Leave began limited rollouts and made relatively good money (if you go by the per-screen average and nothing else), and the only other brand new addition to the charts is a documentary called Cat Daddies about… men who own cats and feel good about it? Honestly, it sounds pretty heartwarming—assuming it’s not some covert Christofascist bullshit, which it doesn’t seem to be. Good for them!
The full top 10, which comes to us from Box Office Mojo, is below.
- Halloween Ends
- Smile
- Lyle, Lycle, Crocodile
- The Woman King
- Amsterdam
- Don’t Worry Darling
- Barbarian
- Bros
- Terrifier 2
- Top Gun: Maverick
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I did a quick search on Cat Daddies and came away with two impressions: 1. it looks like a competently-made documentary highlighting some truly heartwarming stories, and 2. it’s almost certain to get savaged by the far right for celebrating men who don’t fit the toxic “alpha male” stereotype. So, yeah, I’m adding it to my to-watch list.
They would have to be aware of Cat Daddies in the first place.
I think you overestimate the attention span and cultural awareness of the far right.
Maybe, but I’m also wary of underestimating their ability to get triggered by anything. It would be legitimately hilarious if they weren’t focused on undermining democracy in the USA.
They apparently have a lot of free time though
True, but I always chuckle a bit at these “going to make right-wing heads explode” statements when no one in question is likely to even hear of Cat Daddies. It’s the mirror image of the “own the libs” mentality.
So much for that viral marketing campaign with Terrifier 2.
Well, it was only airing in 700 theaters, pulling in a $1,214 per-theater average. Plus it apparently only had a budget of $250,000, so it’s already profitable anyway.
It’s a shoe-string budget indie horror film that 30 years ago would have gone straight t0 video alongside Puppet Master and Pumpkinhead 4 1/2. The fact it managed to break the top ten is kind of astounding. I’m not saying that as a fan, I couldn’t make it a quarter of a way through the first one because (keeping with the 30 years ago theme) the acting was Skinemax bad.
I thought it was a vomiting market campaign.
Halloween Kills was terrible, so ignoring it doesn’t seem so bad. However, it did kill at least one particularly notable character connected to the surviving characters, so I doubt they can completely ignore that.
How does ENDS ignore KILLS? Isn’t it just a few years later? (Haven’t seen it.)Also, I hate to harp on this: Top Gun in the top ten, still, many months later, even past its streaming date. That either says something about the film’s popularity or the dearth of satisfying films being released.
I searched recently out of curiosity to see if it was still in theaters nearby (it is, so I will probably go see it again!)It’s easily the most complete major blockbuster of recent history.
Rented it last night and found it supremely satisfying.
Cat Daddy, meet Rev. Pimp Daddy…
I’m working on a horror movie called Simile.
An evil spirit makes you kill people while you compare them to things using “like” or “as”.
Simile “It’s scary as fuck!” Coming this Christmas.
The sequel should be Synecdoche, where people are referred to by their haunted body parts.