Ben Fritz at The Los Angeles Times reports this morning that while Rob Zombie's Halloween II fell $9 million short of the previous installment and came in third to The Final Destination and Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds in its holdover weekend, that doesn't mean Dimension is done with the franchise. Word from Weinstein co-Chairman Bob Weinstein is that the 3-D sequel, titled, appropriately enough, Halloween 3D, is in development, but Zombie won't return for a third go 'round.
It only makes sense, considering horror films are done on the relative cheap and with 3-D on the rise and obviously a worthwhile business for 3-D with Final Destination's success as well as My Bloody Valentine 3-D earlier this year, which never came in at #1, but ended up bringing in $93 million worldwide on a budget of only $15 million. Similarly, Halloween II was made for only $15 million and this weekend's $17 million should have the film on its way to another satisfying return before DVD and Blu-ray sales.
Continuing on the topic of box-office returns, Final Destination distributor, Warner Bros., tells the "L.A. Times" theaters with at least one 3-D screen earned 3.25 times as much as those that showed the movie in 2-D only. The multiplier proves to play a large part helping out horror specifically with films such as G-Force carrying a meager 1.7 multiplier, but the previously mentioned My Bloody Valentine earned 6.4 times as much from 3-D theaters as it did from 2-D on its opening weekend. I would say that is an added insentive.
Perhaps we should begin expecting more horror films in 3-D.
I'm predicting comedies in 3D next… but God knows where the demand for that will come from…
I gave Halloween 2 ZERO stars. It is just AWFUL. I really believe that Dimension films should issue an apology for this utter garbage from the mind of a mentally ill human being in Rob Zombie. Im sorry but this film is so vile you can’t release it on 3100 screens. This is NOT Halloween. If Zombie wants to do his thing FINE, but don’t call it Halloween because it is not. Haddonfield is not a small town filled with Redneck hillbillies, Michael Myers is not a giant Hobo and Dr. Loomis is not an opportunist book writer. Don’t even get me started on Laurie Strode. Scout Taylor Compton is an AWFUL actress. Just awful.
This movie pissed me off more than any film Ive seen in a long time. I can’t believe the Weinstein company could back this sick vision. NO MORE ROB ZOMBIE doing franchise properties. Sickening that he will do a BLOB remake.
chuck
@entertainmenttodayandbeyond.com: You knew what you were getting with a Rob Zombie film before you went to see it. Next time save yourself the trouble and myself the trouble of having to read your comments. If you don't like his movies don't go see them!!! One less person talking in the middle of a movie that I am enjoying. If it were remade exactly the way the original was then what would be the point of watching it??? Maybe you should have went to see FD3D instead….hey at least you got to go to church this morning to make yourself feel better…..
@Tyler C.: Thats my point. Zombie can do whatever he wants with an original film but I don't think he was ever right for the Halloween franchise. Do you honestly think that anything other than a very small majority of people who went to see this film didn't hate it. People booed at the end in my theater.
I actually liked The Devils Rejects. Its a sick film but its his film. It's nasty but a compelling watch.
90% of people who grew up on the Halloween films don"t want to see his sickening vision for this fraqnchise. Its just demented. At least thats my opinion. Also- you liked the ending of Halloween 2. If you did fine, but it was pretty pathetic. What about his extended dream sequence. That's good filmmaking right?
This movie opened on 3100 screens. Most people went to see a Halloween movie. They don't even know who Rob Zombie is.
One last thing- I didn't go to church this morning but I appreciate the stupid insult.
Chuck
@entertainmenttodayandbeyond.com: Well it did come in third place in the box office this weekend for a reason. The people who saw Halloween 1 and were disgusted knew better than to go see the second one. But the people who enjoy a morbid horror film such as myself did go and see it. Rob Zombie is not your typical film maker. He stretches the boundaries within people. He wants you to feel disgusted! That the whole point! He wanted you to squirm in your seat and feel terribly uncomfortable. This is one remake franchise I can actually be proud of unlike Texas chainsaw massacre or The Hills Have Eyes or the many other endless remakes that have been spawned. I loved the dream sequences! They were insane and this movie actually gave Micheal a reason for doing what he was doing unlike the originals. What kind of ending did you want to see? Another cliffhanger ending that makes the climax completely irrelevant? I am disappointed to see he is doing the Blob as his next project as I have been anticipating Tyrannosaurus Rex getting rolling.
The church remark was rather immature I do apologize
@entertainmenttodayandbeyond.com:
I couldn't agree more with you. I was really shocked on how bad this movie was. I gave it the benefit of the doubt, considering that the remake wasn't a bad film in my eyes. However, nothing about part 2 was good. It is not a remake, okay that's everyone who supports this movie says, but it is not a michael myers film. Rob zombie totally destroyed the charcter of myers for all the true halloween fans who have followed the franchise for years. The movie is filled with sense-less pathetic rob zombie thoughts, which should be kept in his personal movie closet. Zombie stated he didn't care for any of the halloween's after part 1, which may help to explain why he destroyed it completely. I also agree that laurie strode is such a stupid character in the movie, he modernized it so much that he made Laurie out to be a high school sexually confused girl, who seems to be popping pills all day. All true Halloween fans should just ignore his films as part of the franchise and consider it a bad dream. My only hope is that dimension films chooses a director that will resurrect what zombie destroyed.
-@b$