Go on a candy hunt or go to a fancy dress party with friends.
This Halloween weekend, American theaters were deserted, as analysts expected, by their regulars too happy to be able to celebrate, without restriction for the first time in two years, on October 31.
New releases, however horrific in nature, like
Edgar Wright's
“giallo” time machine in Sixties London
Last Night In Soho
and
Scott Cooper's
closed-door
Antlers
did not find their audience.
The two films are battling for a modest sixth place in the charts with estimated revenue reaching $ 4.2 million.
A disappointment for Last Night In Soho.
The feminist ghost story with Anya Taylor-Joy from
The Lady's Game
with Licked Images has received intense promotion and rather laudatory reviews across the Atlantic.
Japanese cartoon surprises
The box office master remained
Dune
. Denis Villeneuve's monumental adaptation of Frank Herbert's classic retains its dominant position and raises $ 15.5 million in additional revenue. In two weeks of operation, the science fiction film starring Timothée Chalamet, and of which Warner commissioned the second part, totaled $ 69.4 million in the United States. The drop in attendance between the two weekends is 62%. An honorable figure given the competition for the Halloween festivities and knowing that
Dune
is also available on the Warner HBO Max platform.
The aptly named
Halloween Kills
, where the psychopath Michael Myers is once again cracking down on Jamie Lee Curtis and his descendants, takes second place on the podium with 8.5 million receipts, three weeks after its hybrid release in theaters and on the Peacock platform for a total of $ 85.6 million.
"Bloody works better than psychological horror
,
"
noted expert David A. Gross to
Variety
.
James Bond recovers the bronze medal.
Dying Can Wait,
which marks Daniel Craig's last mission, amassed 7.8 million and passed the threshold of 133 million in revenue.
The surprise came from occupying fourth place at the box office.
The Japanese cartoon
My Hero Academia: World Heroes Mission
collects 6 million for only 1602 screens.
For comparison,
Last Night In Soho
had 3016. On the fifth rung slips
Venom: Let There Be Carnage
with 5.7 million dollars.
Wes Anderson's love letter to French cinema
The French Dispatch,
where Timothée Chalamet is also displayed, was able to be deployed in additional theaters, going from 52 screens to 788. The story shot in Angoulême collected 2.8 million dollars.
Receipts mixed compared to the dynamic 1.4 million obtained with much fewer theaters last week.