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Universal/Miramax/Blumhouse’s sequel Halloween Kills, which also is available to paid subscribers on NBCUniversal’s streaming service Peacock today, made $4.85M from 7 p.m. shows Thursday night booked at 2,950 theaters.
While that amount is lower than the $7.7M previews of 2018’s Halloween — which wound up being the best opening and highest-grossing film in the franchise with $76.2M three-day, $159.3M domestic and $255.6M worldwide — the R-rated Halloween Kills bested the PG-13 Thursday preview results of A Quiet Place 2 ($4.8M, 5 p.m. shows) and Universal’s genre pandemic movies Candyman ($1.9M, 7 p.m. at 2,750 theaters), and Blumhouse’s The Forever Purge.
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The rebooted franchise from filmmaker David Gordon Green and star Jamie Lee Curtis — the franchise’s legend of six pics — is expected to open to mid- to high-$30Ms at 3,700 theaters. It’s expected t...
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