HALLOWEEN Scares Its Way To An $80 Million Opening; Takes Aim At VENOM's October Opening Weekend Record

It's been just three weeks since Sony's Venom set a new opening weekend record for October with an $80.26 million debut, but, if the current projections hold, it looks like that record may be broken a lot sooner than anyone may have expected - and by Michael Myers, no less. 

According to the latest numbers, Blumhouse and Universal's well-received Halloween reboot, which also scored a B+ CinemaScore, scared up $33.3 million on Friday and is now on track for a launch in the $80.3 million to $81 million range, narrowly breaking Venom's October opening weekend record. The Jamie Lee Curtis-starrer is also on track to have the second-largest opening weekend ever for a horror film, coming in a distant second to Warner Bros. and New Line's It.

Venom continues to hold strong and is heading to an $18 million-plus weekend, taking its domestic cume to $170.5 million worldwide and once the international numbers come in, the Tom Hardy-starrer should be well past $400 million to $450 million worldwide in its third frame.

Warner Bros.' A Star Is Born should finish second with $19 million ($165 million worldwide), Sony's Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween will finish fourth with $10.1 million ($32 million worldwide), and Universal's First Man is expected to finish in fifth place with a disappointing $8.8 million ($40 million worldwide).
 

Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.