Current Events > IT makes $51,000,000 opening night

(+) Yeah! (+)

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/daily/chart/

Well golly!
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Drink it in, maaaaannnnnnn
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Makes sense, seeing as there hasn't been any huge movie open lately.

That's amazing, it's definitely going to shatter the record for opening weekend for a horror movie, possibly for an R rated release.
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GATTJT posted...

That's amazing, it's definitely going to shatter the record for opening weekend for a horror movie, possibly for an R rated release.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4322&p=.htm

SATURDAY AM UPDATE: With an estimated $51 million on Friday (including $13.5 million from Thursday night previews) WB and New Line's release of It has already smashed records and will continue to do so throughout the weekend as it heads to a $100+ million opening.

Among the records the film has already broken:

Largest Thursday Pre-Show for a Horror Movie
Largest Thursday Pre-Show for an R-Rated Movie
Largest Thursday Pre-Show for a September Movie
Largest Friday for a September Movie
Largest # of Locations for a R-Rated Movie

The $51 million opening day is just $1.5 million shy of the largest opening ever for an R-rated horror movie and is likely to lead to the second largest opening weekend for an R-rated movie ever, behind Deadpool's $132.4 million last February.
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And the budget for IT was apparently only 35 million.

They are gonna make damn good profits on this.
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is it good tho?
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GODAMMIT! Why did it have to have a week delayed premiere in Sweden!!!
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