$117 opening weekend..

That's really not the final total. Don't know why all these news sites and even those reporting box officers numbers post around 10am-noon on Sunday what the weekend box office numbers were. Still over half a day to go and people are still seeing the movie.

But $117 million is good. The movie is making more than predicted. The last prediction I saw that the "experts" made was $103 million. Before that it was about $85 million. And before that it was $50-60 million. It bumped up to $85 million because of the critics giving it all kinds of positive reviews. Then it bumped up again after the numbers came in for how much the movie made Friday, which was $51 million. But the movie is breaking all kinds of records right now. Mostly for the month of September and those set by R-rated movies. Plus a couple just for the horror genre.

The movie probably would've made more. Maybe an extra $30-40 million, but Hurricane Irma is preventing people from seeing it and stuff. Mainly everywhere that is getting hit by the hurricane. So I'd estimate a loss of $30-40 million to IT's opening weekend box office numbers because of the hurricane. Unless some of those people evacuated early and took off well before the hurricane's arrival and saw the movie where they are staying until the hurricane is gone.

That would be one of the biggest Sunday drops ever if it only grossed $117m. That's WB's "conservative" estimate. Rival studios have it more around $125m.

123M