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Thats more than double its budget of $22 million.
Its also the second-highest first weekendof all timefor an R-rated horror* film.
The superhero business might be spotty at WB, but the horror business is damn good.
It should be noted thatNuncrushed it overseas as well,generating more than$77 million across foreign markets.
(Or maybe Brazil and Indonesia and Spain justreallylove Taissa Farmiga?)
As for where the genre as a whole stands this year?
So 2018 was always going to be dealing with little brother syndrome in trying to keep pace.
The slate was top-heavy in 2017, with the Universal/Blumhouse productionsSplitandGet Outopening within a month of each other.
Then Warner Bros. showed up at the end of summer to collect all your dollars withItandAnnabelle: Creation.
How do we know more good things are on the horizon?
Because Blumhouses forthcomingHalloweensequel is getting wildly good reviews from its debut at the Toronto International Film Festival.
(And no, nobody expected anything toreplicate the success ofIt, because that was completely insane.)
But the bottom line is: The bottom line is good.
It has been corrected throughout.
