Malcolm McDowell As Dr. Sam Loomis In The "Halloween" Redo
Brandon Gray of Box Office Mojo:
With an estimated $26.5 million three-day weekend, the Halloween remake has already slashed its way to the biggest Labor Day opening ever...
Pamela McClintock of Variety:
Rob Zombie's R-rated remake "Halloween" is on track to scare up a record-breaking showing at the Labor Day box office, grossing an estimated $26.5 million from 3,472 theaters through Sunday.
Long holiday weekend caps a boom summer for the film biz, with the domestic box office crossing the $4 billion mark Thursday night for the first time ever in a summer, according to Rentrak.
Bonanza even bled into Labor Day, generally not a busy movie-going frame.
Dimension's "Halloween," distributed by MGM, will wind up far outpacing the previous record-holder for best Labor Day opening, "Transporter 2," which grossed $20.1 million for the four days in 2005.
Zombie's remake is the first film in the horror franchise to debut away from the actual Halloween holiday.
Distribs will post official four-day estimates for the Labor Day weekend on Monday, with some providing three-day estimates on Sunday.
Coming in behind "Halloween" was Sony's holdover "Superbad." The R-rated teen laffer grossed an estimated $12.2 million from 3,002 locations through Sunday for a cume of $89 million.
In its debut, Rogue Pictures's sports parody "Balls of Fury" placed No. 3 as it grossed an estimated $11.6 million through Sunday from 3,052 locations.
Hyde Park Entertainment and 20th Century Fox's "Death Sentence," the weekend's other new wide release, grossed an estimated $4.2 million from 1,822 playdates for the three days...
Given Halloween's high theater count it's no real shock that it won out. Nothing else stood in Michael's way.
Coming off a record breaking summer...Hollywood is on a roll...For everyone's sake: Let's hope that looming strike deadline doesn't make for one really scary fall.
Final holiday weekend box office numbers will be released tomorrow.
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