'Halloween Ends' slays box office with $41.3M, but did streaming, iffy reviews hurt it?

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'Halloween Ends' slays box office with $41.3M, but did streaming, iffy reviews hurt it?
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Touted as the final showdown between Jamie Lee Curtis' Laurie Strode and Michael Myers, the slasher pic earned $41.3 million in ticket sales from 3,901 theaters in North America, according to studio estimates Sunday.

by contrast, debuted to $76.2 million in 2018. But that was pre-pandemic, theatrical release only and the highly anticipated revival of a beloved franchise with good reviews. His subsequent"Halloween" films have been more divisive among critics and fans: "Kills" had a 39% positive Rotten Tomatoes score while“This is a mandate in favor of the movie theater,” says Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst for Comscore.

“Stop doing this. Please. It doesn’t work. Studios: stop gambling with filmmakers and their movies to try and prop up your fledgling streaming services,” Landon wrote on Twitter. “I begged the studio not to do this. ... We got hosed.” Third place for the weekend went to “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile,” down 35% from its debut with $7.4 million, while “The Woman King” landed in fourth place with $3.7 million in its fifth weekend, bringing its domestic total to $59.7 million. “Amsterdam” rounded out the top five in its second weekend with $2.9 million for $12 million domestically.

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