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Surprised to learn how absolutely horrendous this films second week was at the Box Office.

posted 2 years ago by [deleted]
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Saw in a discussion about Halloween Ends were one poster said it could have a historically brutal second week drop off like Friday the 13th (2009).

I didn't pay attention to the BO back in 2009 but damn, this film went of a cliff edge! A lot of Horror films are quite front loaded and drop 45-65%. But this films drop is historically abysmal.

For comparison. Second week drops, domestic;

Saw (2004) - 38.2%

Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985) - 44.2%
Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021) - 44.8%
Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) - 47.8%
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) - 48.4%
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) - 48.5%
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) - 48.9%

Saw II (2005) - 50.3%
Halloween: Resurrection (2002) - 52.2%
Halloween (2018) - 52.7%
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) 56.5%
Friday the 13th Part VII: A New Blood (1988) - 57.6%
Saw III (2006) - 58.0%
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006) - 58.6%
Saw VI (2009) - 59.7%

Jigsaw (2017) - 60.3%
Halloween II (2009) - 60.5%
Evil Dead (2013) - 61.6%
Freddy vs Jason (2003) - 64.1%
Jason X (2002) - 64.2%
Halloween (2007) - 64.7%
Saw 3D (2010) - 65.0%
Saw V (2008) - 65.3%
Saw IV (2007) - 67.5%
Halloween Kills (2021) - 68.4%
Jason Goes To Hell: The Final Friday (1993) - 69.3%
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) - 69.4%

Texas Chainsaw (2013) - 74.3%
Friday the 13th (2009) - 79.2%

Sourced from BoxOfficeMojo.

That's not to say it didn't make money. It grossed $92.7 million WW against a $19 million budget. Profitable for sure, and it did make more money than some of the films listed above.

Normally second week drops are strongly correlated to 'word of mouth'. Was the reception to this film really that brutal back in 2009? I recall it being divisive with some not liking it but others thinking it was awesome.

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

Interested to see what Halloween Ends ends up dropping.

The second weekend drop is currently projected around 70% which is bad.

Universal had the No. 1 movie of the week with Blumhouse/Miramax’s Halloween Ends, also available on Peacock, which did $46.1M at 3,901 theaters. Pic is expected to decline severely due to its avail on the streamer, in the 70% range. It made $1.02M on Thursday, and was beat by Paramount’s Smile which did $1.07M at 3,612. That genre movie in its third week did $17.2M, good for a running total of $76M.

https://deadline.com/2022/10/box-office-black-adam-dwayne-johnson-1235151785/

The data I posted in the OP is for the entire second week vs first week.

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

Updated projection for Halloween Ends is 78%. LMAO.
https://deadline.com/2022/10/box-office-black-adam-dwayne-johnson-1235151785/

Friday the 13th may lose the shitcrown for abysmal second week drops.

[–] Daf (145) 19 days ago

It's true its second weekend drop was hilariously steep, but there are some other factors behind it other than simply bad "word of mouth" (it actually had a fairly decent reception among horror fans all things considered):

-- Friday the 13th (2009)'s release date was Friday February 13th 2009. Think about that, you had:
(1) a Friday that was the 13th,
(2) that Saturday was Valentine's Day,
(3) Monday was President's Day which a lot of schools had off, and so Sunday was basically like a second Saturday at the box office.

So the movie had what amounted to THREE holidays during its opening weekend, pumping the grosses higher than it would've otherwise: Its $40 Million opening was considered gargantuan!

-- Friday the 13th sequels have always been very front-loaded performers, even compared to other horror movies: in the 80s Jason movies tended to have big opening weekends and then drop about half afterwards, which was extremely steep for the time, and that just increased into the 90s and 2000s. It's just how these movies tend to perform, they play to fans who all try to make it in as soon as they open.

So when you combine the unusually gigantic opening weekend with the series' nature at the box office, you had a recipe for a ludicrously front-loaded run. Going by domestic weekends (so slightly different figures from OP's weekly data):

1st weekend: Feb 13-15 Rank: 1 Gross: $40,570,365 -
2nd weekend: Feb 20-22 Rank: 6 Gross: $7,942,472 Change: -80.4%

Its domestic total ended up at $65,002,019, a solid success, though most movies with a $40M opening would usually be expected to clear a $100M total, LOL.

[–] Daf (145) 19 days ago

By the way, Friday the 13th (2009)'s 2nd weekend drop record for a saturation release (3000+ theaters) has recently been broken! Joker: Folie à Deux is the new, uh, champion.

Joker: Folie à Deux _ (1st ->2nd Weekend): $37,678,467 ->$7,002,654 Change: -81.4%
Friday the 13th (2009) _ (1st ->2nd Weekend): $40,570,365 ->$7,942,472 Change: -80.4%

Halloween Ends also came really close! (1st ->2nd Weekend): $40,050,355 ->$8,000,510 Change: -80%