Hollywood has worst weekend box office of the year
Halloween was light on the box office treats.
Ticket sales nearly ground to a halt without any new releases, as well as the misfortune of the spooky holiday landing on Friday (meaning families were trick-or-treating, not visiting their local movie theater).
Another distraction was Saturday night’s Major League Baseball championships, which saw the Los Angeles Dodgers score a victory over the Toronto Blue Jays in a nail-biting Game 7.
As a result, revenues between Friday and Sunday amounted to just $49 million, marking the worst weekend of the entire year, according to Comscore.
“The cavalry cannot get here soon enough,” says Comscore’s head of marketplace trends, Paul Dergarabedian. “The industry is in dire need of a boost [after] this scary-slow World Series-impacted, Halloween-festivity-laden weekend. It’s emblematic of what has been a quiet post-summer moviegoing corridor.”
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