"Halloween: The End" won the North American box office at the opening, but set a new low for the series

Entering the third week of October, the North American film market slowly recovered. The horror film "Halloween: The End" won the championship with 41.2 million US dollars in its opening, and the total weekend score increased by 31% compared with last week, which is the best in the past 12 weeks.

Another horror film, "The Smile," ranked second with $12.4 million, with a cumulative box office of more than $70 million. This weekend, DC's "Black Adam" opens, and it is expected to bring the weekend total box office back to the 100 million yuan level.

"Halloween: The End" is the highest-grossing new film in North America after Jordan Peele's "No" and the second-highest-grossing horror film this year. However, this film is the worst-performing of the "Halloween" reboot trilogy, with the first two films opening at $76 million and $49 million respectively.

This performance is due to the poor reputation of Halloween: The End, with a 41% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a popcorn index of only 57%. The CinemaScore is C+, which is not as good as the previous episode's B-. In addition, the film was simultaneously released on streaming media, so the cumulative box office will not be too high.

The performance of the first two episodes of the series: Halloween grossed $159 million in North America and $255 million worldwide; Halloween: The Killing grossed $92 million in North America and $132 million worldwide. However, Universal only spent about $30 million to shoot the third episode, and the film grossed $58 million worldwide in its first weekend, so it was not difficult to recoup the cost.

Paramount's low-budget horror film "The Smile" earned $12.4 million in its third week, with a total of $71.16 million in North America and $137 million worldwide. It will take about two weeks to surpass "Scream 5" with $81 million and "The Black Phone" with $89.9 million, becoming the second best performing horror film of the year, but it is difficult to surpass "No" with $123 million.

The third place last weekend was "Crocodile Lai Lai". This musical comedy earned $7.4 million in its second week, a 35% drop from the previous week. The film has a total of $22.8 million in North America and only $26.65 million worldwide. For a family movie with an investment of $50 million, this is not good news.

Fourth on the list is "Beauty of Dahomey", which earned $3.7 million in its fifth week of release, a total of $59.7 million in North America and $76.54 million worldwide.

David O. Russell's all-star new film Amsterdam continued to perform poorly, with only $2.9 million in its second week, ranking fifth. The film, which cost $80 million to invest, grossed $12 million in North America and $18.5 million worldwide, making it the biggest loss-maker of the year.