Halloween Ratchets Down Box Office: ‘Dune’ $15M+; ‘My Hero Academia’ $8M+, ‘Last Night In Soho’ $4M+

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Warner Bros/Legendary’s sci-fi epic Dune is crossing the $300M mark globally today, with North America totaling $71M through Monday and including $228.3M at the international box office.

“Dune” now has a 10-day domestic total of $69.4 million and a global total of $292 million. Theatrical profits will be minimal for the film, particularly considering that the film’s full support from IMAX — which has accounted for $17 million of the film’s domestic gross — will end when “Eternals” is released on Friday.

The victim of a Halloween arson and firework attack has told of her terrifying ordeal which saw ‘25 youths’ vandalise her home.

Edgar Wright’s Last Night In Soho is an arthouse film that opened on 3,000 screens — a gamble in a theatrical market where multiplex-goers have been mostly turning out for big-budget, high-octane studio franchises. (Dune, Halloween Kills and No Time To Die took top spots this weekend, a soft one overall where Halloween parties may have dinged October’s stellar recovery.)

Disney, which now handles the theatrical release of the 1975 film after its acquisition of 20th Century Fox, reports that the film grossed $250,000 this weekend, putting it 15th on the charts. According to industry estimates, the film has grossed over $120 million during its run as the longest theatrical release in film history.

Dune is still on top.

Halloween falling on a Sunday, too many new options or simply a lack of enthusiasm, moviegoing audiences seemed to have other plans this weekend. Notable exceptions are the latest “My Hero Academia” and the new Wes Anderson pic “The French Dispatch.”First place still went to the bigger budget and wider release Timothée Chalamet film.

“Dune” now has a 10-day domestic total of $69.4 million and a global total of pver $250 million. While theatrical profits will be minimal, Warner Bros.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterThe domestic box office was lighter on the treats and heavier on the tricks during Halloween weekend, capping an otherwise busy October at the movies on a muted note.Horror movies “Antlers” and “Last Night in Soho” opened nationwide and struggled to scare up strong ticket sales, leaving last weekend’s champion “Dune” to rule over box office charts again.

Dune” is repeating its top performance at the domestic box office this weekend.Both Edgar Wright’s “Last Night in Soho” and Scott Cooper’s “Antlers” were expected to bring in around $5 million in their opening weekends, leaving the No.

Marvel film’s release. But a pair of specialty distributors will try to draw people looking to spend Halloween with a horror film this weekend as Focus Features releases Edgar Wright’s “Last Night in Soho” while Searchlight Pictures releases the Guillermo del Toro-produced “Antlers.” Neither film is expected to take the No.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterEdgar Wright’s psychological thriller “Last Night in Soho” and the Guillermo del Toro-produced supernatural horror film “Antlers” will close out a surprisingly strong October at the domestic box office.The spookiest month of the year isn’t always booming when it comes to box office ticket sales.

We are on the eve of one of the biggest releases of 2021— “Dune.” The film has been delayed (like most blockbusters) for close to a year, and now, Warner Bros. is not only releasing the film in theaters, but also day-and-date on HBO Max.

When Joe Russo recently predicted the arthouse independent box office wouldn’t be coming back, following the damage the pandemic did to the theatrical industry, we didn’t think his prediction would come correct so soon. But when you think about it, his prediction is off.

When it was announced last month that the “Halloween” sequel was moving to day-and-date — a move Blumhouse CEO Jason Blum said was fueled by the poor box office performance of “Freaky” — studio sources told TheWrap that Universal felt confident that the film could boost interest in Peacock without sacrificing significant box office revenue as hardcore horror fans both love the “Halloween” series and put a high value on seeing scary films in a theater with other moviegoers.That confidence turned

“Halloween Kills” may be available to watch at home, but the latest installment in the Michael Myers saga is making a killing at the North American box office in its first weekend in theaters. The David Gordon Green-directed horror scared up $50.4 million from 3,705 locations, according to studio estimates Sunday.Universal’s “Halloween Kills” far surpassed expectations, which had the film pegged for a more conservative debut in the $30 million range.