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Coming in second for the Friday-through-Sunday period was Universal’s “Ticket to Paradise,” a romantic comedy starring A-list stars George Clooney and Julia Roberts. The flick brought in US$10 million.
Horror films, though, scored more broadly at the box office in the run-up to Halloween.
“Four of the top 10 movies this weekend are horror films,” said David A Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research.
“Prey for the Devil,” a Lionsgate flick, was in the number three spot, pulling in US$7 million.
“This is an average opening for an original horror film … Reviews are poor,” Gross said.
Two other horror films, Paramount’s “Smile” at fourth and Universal’s “Halloween Ends” at fifth, brought in US$5 million and US$3.8 million respectively.
Overall, it was not a great weekend for Hollywood, with films earning an estimated US$66 million, down from the $100 million from the previous weekend.
Rounding out the top 10 were:
- “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile” (US$2.8 million)
- “Till” (US$2.8 million)
- “Terrifier 2” (US$1.8 million)
- “The Woman King” (US$1.1 million)
- “Tar” (US$1 million)