Still Photography on the set of ″Ticket To Paradise″

There is still photography on the set.

Stills Photography by Vince Vali

The opening of Universal's Ticket to Paradise was a great news for the industry. Even without music, action or fantasy, the sub-genre of live-action comedies is still alive and well. We can expect an over/under $16.5 million domestic launch with mixed- negative reviews and an A- from Cinemascore. The $60 million rom-com about two bitterly divorced parents who team up to sabotage their daughter's wedding should be gross. There is nothing for adults to dislike until Thanksgiving weekend. After a month-long international roll out, it has earned 73 million dollars.

The Banshees of Inisherin

There are women in Inisherin.

Searchlight

The Banshees of Inisherin opened in four theaters yesterday and earned $67,000 in its first day. Searchlight's dramedy will bring in an average of over $40,000 per-theater. The movie was added to 104 theaters in advance of its nationwide release. The film earned $120,000 on Friday and is expected to earn $351,000 over the weekend and $3,377 per-theater average. Next weekend, TR will be released. It expanded to 141 theaters and should make $510,000 over the weekend for a $3,617 per-theater average and over one million dollars in 17 days. We will see how many of this year's Oscar nominees are able to outgross the other one.

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The film was directed by David Gordon Green.

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Halloween ends took a near-record 89% drop on its second Friday, earning just $2.74 million for a likely $8 million weekend and 54.178 million ten day total. This one was killed quickly by the poor review, divisive word-of-mouth and concurrent Peacock availability. I remember when the biggest Halloween movies made over 50 million dollars, including $47 million for Halloween in 1978 and $55 million for Halloween H20 in 1998. Paramount's PARA is the scariest movie of the scary season, earning 2.57 million dollars while adding 142 theaters. We can expect a weekend of $8.5 million and a 24 day total of $84.5 million. It will surpass Halloween Kills next weekend as it approaches the $100 million mark.

Terrifier 2

TheTerrifier 2 is a sequel.

Bloody Disgusting

Reports of audiences falling ill led to petitions to get the film banned. The idiots who tried to raise $200 million for a remake of The Last Jedi are just as stupid as the ones who tried to remake Halloween Ends. An old-school video nasty-type flick can still get a lot of attention in this fragmented media culture. The movie earned $545,500 on Friday and is expected to make at least $2.29 million over the weekend and $5.50 million domestically. This is quite unexpected because of the idea of demographically specific event movies. The movie is turning into a movie about a showman.

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A group of people slurp up ice cream in a movie. The photo was taken by Sony Pictures.

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A disappointing $28.7 million 17-day gross was earned by Sony's Lyle Lyle Crocodile on Friday. The Woman King made $520,000 on Friday and had a weekend gross of $1.93 million. 20th Century Studios' all-star Amsterdam will have just 14 million dollars by the 17th, while Warner Bros. Discovery's Don't Worry Darling will have 44 million by the 31st. The $4 million, R-rated original Barbarian will cross $40 million domestic this weekend, a remarkable achievement even though Smile stole much of the attention. Top Gun will plunge 61% in weekend 22 for a $261,000 weekend to plummet out of the top 10. It will have to spend over a billion dollars domestically and over a billion dollars internationally.