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IT WAS ANOTHER OVER-PERFORMING OCTOBER WEEKEND AT BOXOFFICE AS MOVIEGOERS SENT WB/LEGENDARY'S PG-13 SCI-FI ADVENTURE "DUNE" INTO $40M+ ORBIT -- BETTER THAN $35-37M EXHIBITORS EXPECTED & BEATING MEDIA BUZZ FOR $30-35M. DAY & DATE STREAMING ON HBO MAX LIKELY HURT OPENING BY LETTING +45 DEMO SEE IT AT HOME FORN NO ADDITIONAL CHARGE. TOP AGE GROUP ON TRACKING WAS 45-54 (3 POINTS OVER NORM). EARLY SPECULATION SUGGESTS "DUNE" MIGHT HAVE BLASTED OFF TO $90-100M WITHOUT HBO MAX COMPETITION. NONETHELESS, IT'S WB'S BEST HYBRID LAUNCH, OVERTAKING "GODZILLA VS. KONG'S" $31.6 MILLION (3/31)....

OVERALL MARKETPLACE WAS $95M, PER COMSCORE, DOWN 13.1% FROM PRIOR WEEKEND'S $109.3M, WHICH WAS BOLSTERED BY $49.4M LAUNCH FOR HORROR SEQUEL "HALLOWEEN KILLS." COMSCORE'S YEAR TO DATE CUME IS NOW $3.006B, UP ROBUST 41.9% VS. $2.118B AT THIS POINT IN 2020....

DIRECTOR DENIS VILLENEUVE'S ("ARRIVAL") NEW TAKE ON FRANK HERBERT'S CLASSIC 1965 SCI-FI ADVENTURE NOVEL "DUNE" LIFTED OFF TO $40.1M AT 4,125 THEATRES ($9,721). CRITICS LIKED IT: 83% ON ROTTEN TOMATOES. AUDIENCES LIKED IT MORE: 91%. "DUNE," WHICH REPORTEDLY COST $165M TO PRODUCE, IS PLAYING STRONGLY IN 76 OVERSEAS MARKETS, WHERE IT'S CUME IS NOW $180.6M, BRINGING WORLDWIDE CUME TO $220.7M....

DISNEY/20TH CENTURY STUDIOS' PG ANIMATED COMEDY ADVENTURE "RON'S GONE WRONG" OPENED DISTANT #5 TO $7.3M AT 3,560 THEATRES ($2,051). EXHIBITORS WERE THINKING $7-9M WHILE MEDIA BUZZ WAS HOPING FOR $10M. CRITICS LIKED IT: 81% ON ROTTEN TOMATOES. AUDIENCES WHO SAW IT LOVED IT: 96%. "RON" NEEDED MOMS-WITH-KIDS, BUT FIRST CHOICE TRACKING SHOWED +25F JUST DIDN'T HAVE IT ON THEIR RADAR TO SEE (5 POINTS UNDER NORM)....

WES ANDERSON’S “THE FRENCH DISPATCH” LOOKS TO BE A WINNER IN THE MAKING SEARCHLIGHT PICTURES' R RATED ROMANTIC DRAMEDY "THE FRENCH DISPATCH," DIRECTED BY WES ANDERSON ("THE ROYAL TENEBAUMS"), OPENED #9 IN LIMITED RELEASE TO OUTSTANDING $1.3M AT 52 LOCATIONS ($25,000 PER THEATRE). "FRENCH" IS SHOT IN ARM FOR SPECIALTY CINEMAS, WHOSE APPEAL IS TYPICALLY TO OLDER ADULTS. THIS SHOWS THAT AUDIENCE WILL "RISK" GOING TO CINEMAS IF SOMETHING'S PLAYING THEY REALLY WANT TO SEE AND IT'S NOT STREAMING DAY & DATE. SURPRISINGLY, CRITICS DIDN'T RAVE: 74% ON ROTTEN TOMATOES. AUDIENCES LIKED IT MORE: 83%. IT'S LIKELY TO BE OSCAR CONTENDER IN PRIME CATEGORIES, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE & DIRECTING + ACTING CATEGORIES....

"FRENCH," PER SEARCHLIGHT SVP-GENERAL SALES MANAGER FRANK RODRIGUEZ, "IS A JOLT OF ELECTRICITY FOR THE SPECIALTY BOXOFFICE, DELIVERING RECORD-BREAKING RESULTS IN THEATRES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. THESE FIGURES SHOW THAT AFTER A YEAR AND A HALF, ARTHOUSE AND INDEPENDENT THEATERS HAVE A SUPERHERO OF THEIR OWN IN WES ANDERSON. WHAT HAS BEEN DOUBLY ENCOURAGING IS THE CROSSOVER RESULTS IN MAINSTREAM THEATERS HUNGRY FOR WES' 10TH FILM AS WELL. WE ARE THRILLED THAT AFTER SEVERAL DELAYS, MOVIEGOERS SAID IT WAS WORTH THE WAIT."...

UNIVERSAL/MIRAMAX/BLUMHOUSE'S "HALLOWEEN KILLS" SLID TO #2 IN WEEKEND 2 WITH $14.5M (-71%) AT 3,727 THEATRES ($3,891). CUMES: $73.1M/DOM + $17.8M/INT = $90.9M/WW. HEFTY WEEKEND 2 DROP REFLECTS DAY & DATE PEACOCK STREAMING COMPETITION, LAST MINUTE DECISION BY UNIVERSAL TO DANGLE EVENT MOVIE CONTENT IN FRONT OF PEACOCK SUBSCRIBERS....

MGM/UNIVERSAL/EON'S "NO TIME TO DIE" FINISHED #3 IN WEEKEND 3 WITH $11.9M (-50%). CUMES: $120M/DOM + $405.6M/INT = $525.6M/WW. DOMESTIC TOTAL REFLECTS BENEFIT OF NOT HAVING DAY & DATE STREAMING COMPETITION. INTERNATIONAL STRENGTH REFLECTS PATTERN FOR BOND FILMS OVER DECADES AS FRANCHISE TYPICALLY PERFORMS BEST OVERSEAS. ...

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