Los Angeles Times

‘Halloween’ kills at the box office with a new horror record, as ‘Last Duel’ gets slayed

LOS ANGELES — Universal Pictures’ “Halloween Kills” slayed expectations at the North American box office this weekend, scaring up $50.4 million, according to estimates from measurement firm Comscore. The dozenth installment in the blockbuster “Halloween” franchise, which was projected to gross $35 million to $40 million, smashed the opening-weekend box office record for a horror film released ...

LOS ANGELES — Universal Pictures’ “Halloween Kills” slayed expectations at the North American box office this weekend, scaring up $50.4 million, according to estimates from measurement firm Comscore.

The dozenth installment in the blockbuster “Halloween” franchise, which was projected to gross $35 million to $40 million, smashed the opening-weekend box office record for a horror film released during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Now in second place is Paramount’s “A Quiet Place Part II,” which managed to generate a whopping $47.5 million back in May as one of the first highly touted theatrical-exclusive releases

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times6 min readAmerican Government
Young Voters Don't Give Biden Credit For Passing The Biggest Climate Bill In History
President Joe Biden spent his Earth Day in a national forest this year with an explicit pitch to young people: a climate jobs corps intended to excite Gen Z the way John F. Kennedy's Peace Corps inspired their grandparents. Biden took a selfie with R
Los Angeles Times3 min readAmerican Government
LZ Granderson: Trump's Racist 'Welfare' Dog Whistle Is Nonsense Just Like Reagan's
Donald Trump took his dog whistle down to Florida last weekend, where he reportedly told a room full of donors: "When you are Democrat, you start off essentially at 40% because you have civil service, you have the unions and you have welfare." He the
Los Angeles Times6 min read
A Tale Of Two Downtowns In LA: As Offices Languish, Apartments Thrive
By many measures, downtown Los Angeles’ newest apartment tower is over the top with such gilded flourishes as stone tiles from Spain lining the elevator cabs and hand-troweled Italian plaster on interior walls. Hummingbirds have somehow found the fru

Related Books & Audiobooks