{"id":44730,"date":"2018-10-22T20:55:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T00:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=44730"},"modified":"2018-11-18T23:26:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T04:26:19","slug":"halloween-slashes-box-office-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/22\/halloween-slashes-box-office-records\/","title":{"rendered":"HALLOWEEN Slashes Box Office Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/halloween-jamie-lee-curtis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/halloween-jamie-lee-curtis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44731\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/halloween-jamie-lee-curtis.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/halloween-jamie-lee-curtis-339x170.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Halloween<\/strong>, the latest installment of the seminal slasher franchise of the same name, was the big winner at this weekend\u2019s box office, earning $77 million and giving it the biggest opening for a horror film during the Halloween season. It is also the second highest horror film opening of an R-rated horror flick, right behind the $123.4 million that <strong>It: Chapter One<\/strong> earned in September 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The previous horror film record holder for the October timeframe was 2011\u2019s <strong>Paranormal Activity 3<\/strong>, which pulled in $52.6 million. Traditionally, an opening weekend of $30 to $40 million is considered strong for an R-rated horror film. <\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, while most horror films play predominantly to younger audiences, only 40% of attendees were in the under 25 years old demographic. Thirty-two percent of the audience was between the ages of 25 and 34, a prime age to have grown up with the franchise both in theaters and on home video.<\/p>\n<p>Director David Gordon Green made his new film a direct sequel to the original 1978 slasher and swept aside the myriad of sequels that had followed. Franchise creator John Carpenter was brought on as a creative consultant, but the big draw of the picture was the return of the original film\u2019s star Jamie Lee Curtis to once again portray heroine Laurie Strode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The latest installment of the iconic horror franchise took in big bucks at the box office this weekend.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/22\/halloween-slashes-box-office-records\/\" title=\"HALLOWEEN Slashes Box Office Records\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[1153,5704],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-44730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-halloween","9":"tag-jamie-lee-curtis"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44730"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=44730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}