It’s the first time since 2014 that Halloween falls on a Friday in what is expected to be horrific for the weekend box office.

For the most part, the audience is expected to shrink greatly on Friday due to festivities, though a scary movie like Black Phone 2 might be able to find some semblance of an audience. Business is expected to bounce back Saturday.

The majors are scared appropriately so to technically release any new titles, though Focus Features is going wide with Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia from 17 theaters to 1,800 in what’s expected to be a $4 million-plus second weekend. If that’s the case, that’s the most a Lanthimos movie has ever collected in a wide break. Bugonia with a great certified fresh Rotten Tomatoes score of 90% and very good audience score of 81% po

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