Horror movies don't usually land at the box office like this.
It, the New Line/Warner Bros. adaptation of Stephen King's classic novel, is expected to end its opening weekend with $117.2 million at the box office. That's a staggeringly huge figure for any movie to open with, and a basically impossible one — until now, apparently — for an R-rated horror movie.
For context: Prior to It, the top opening weekend for an R-rated horror movie belonged to Paranormal Activity 3, which earned $52.6 million in 2011. The rest of that Top 10 list after Paranormal is populated by movies that opened at $41 million or less. Read more...
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