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Box-Office Weekend: Michael Myers Cuts Bond in Half

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

The newest addition to the “Halloween” franchise knocked the latest Bond film from the top spot of the box-office weekend as Halloween Kills debuted at number one it its opening weekend.

The return of Michael Myers boasted a $50.4 million opening weekend, dropping No Time To Die to second place by half. Daniel Craig’s 007 managed to bring in another $24.3 million, lifting the film’s two-week total to $99.5 million. Meanwhile, Venom: Let There Be Carnage also fell a spot in the top ten, finishing in third with $16.5 million and a three-week tally of $168.1 million.

Similarly dropping one spot was the animated family offering The Addams Family 2, which added $7.2 million to give it a three-week total of $42.3 million. The second debut of the weekend, the historical drama The Last Duel, starring Jodie Comer, earned $4.8 million in its first weekend of release to finish firmly in fifth place of this week’s top ten.

In its seventh week in release, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings fell from fourth to sixth place with $3.5 million over the weekend. The film now boasts a total of $218.1 million. The third debut in this week’s top ten, Honsla Rakh, took the seventh spot with $706,000 over the weekend. Dropping two spots to finish in eighth place, earning $680,000 over the weekend was Free Guy, starring Ryan Reynolds, which now sports a ten-week total of $120.8 million. In its second week of release, the horror/mystery Lamb added $543,000 over the weekend to give it a two-week total of $2.0 million. Finally, the fourth debut of the weekend box-office, Most Eligible Bachelor, made $470,000 in its first week of release.

A total of four films found their way out of the top ten this weekend. These were: The Many Saints of Newark (which managed to bring in $7.9 million during its theatrical release), Dear Evan Hansen (which bows out with a four-week run of $14.6 million), Candyman (the horror film leaves sporting a $60.8 total million over eight weeks), and Met Opera: Boris Godunov (which earned $387,000).

Weekend Box Office (October 15th – October 17th)

  1. Halloween Kills…$50.4 Million
  2. No Time To Die…$24.3 Million
  3. Venom: Let There Be Carnage…$16.5 Million
  4. The Addams Family 2…$7.2 Million
  5. The Last Duel…$4.8 Million
  6. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings…$3.5 Million
  7. Honsla Rakh…$706,000
  8. Free Guy…$680,000
  9. Lamb…$543,000
  10. Most Eligible Bachelor…$470,000

Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com
An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.

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