After a $123 million record-breaking opening weekend at the box office, Pennywise is continuing to lure moviegoers into the air-conditioned confines of movie theaters, as Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema's IT has enjoyed the largest second weekend at the box office in horror film history.
According to multiple sources, including THR, IT is estimated to rake in $60 million from a combined 4,103 theaters by the end of the weekend, which would be the biggest second weekend at the box office of all time for a horror film.
Thus far, moviegoers have been coming to theaters in droves to watch the Losers' Club defend their town of Derry against an ancient evil, with the new IT movie raking in $218.7 million on the domestic front, bumping it closer to The Sixth Sense's all-time horror movie record of $293 million and The Exorcist's $232.9 million all-time high for an R-rated horror film (minus inflation adjustments). IT's record-breaking status is already sealed as the number-one grossing release of any genre in the month of September (not adjusted for inflation).
Pennywise is also making the rounds across the globe, with the new IT movie already raking in $152.6 million in the foreign markets, bringing its global box office up to $371.3 million.
We'll be sure to keep Daily Dead readers updated as more information is revealed, and we're very excited to see the positive impact that IT's success will have on the future of horror.
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Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
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