‘Halloween Kills’ Grabs $4.9M On Thursday Night
Universal/Miramax/Blumhouse’s sequel Halloween Kills, which is also available on Uni’s streaming service Peacock today to paid subscribers, made $4.85M from 7PM shows last night booked at 2,950 theaters. While that amount is lower than the $7.7M previews of the 2018 version, which wound up being the best opening and highest grossing film in the franchise with $76.2M 3-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, 5pm shows), and Universal’s genre pandemic movies Candyman ($1.9M, 7PM at 2,750 theaters), and Blumhouse’s Forever Purge ($1.3M, 7PM shows at 2,580).