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Box Office: 'It' Is Now The Highest-Grossing R-Rated Horror Movie Ever
SEP 22, 2017 @ 10:00 AM1,903
Box Office: 'It' Is Now The Highest-Grossing R-Rated Horror Movie
Photo by Brooke Palmer - © 2016 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Stephen King's 'It'
It, based on the classic/iconic Stephen King novel, has now earned $236.3 million domestic. That means, amusingly enough, that King celebrated his 70th birthday by watching one of his movies hit several benchmarks. First, it is now unquestionably the biggest Stephen King adaptation ever, earning more in North America than the adjusted totals of The Green Mile ($136m in 1999/$233m adjusted for 2017 ticket prices). Second, the picture has already soared past $400m worldwide, earning $409m thus far (not counting whatever it made overseas yesterday). That puts it ahead of Prometheusas essentially the second-biggest R-rated scary movie ever behind only The Exorcist($441m).
The $35 million horror drama has now earned more in unadjusted domestic grosses than The Exorcist ($232.9m, counting the 2000 reissue), giving it the top spot among R-rated scary movies. That’s a record that has held for 44 years. And by the end of the weekend, with around $30m for the Fri-Sun frame and around $266m after 17 days, the film will be the third-biggest supernatural horror movie of all time behind The Exorcist and The Sixth Sense ($292m in 1999). The Warner Bros./Time Warner Inc. and New Line release will eventually become the fourth R-rated movie to top $300m domestic, behind American Sniper ($350m), Deadpool ($363m) and The Passion of the Christ ($372m)
If it ends its run past $327 million (just ahead of adjusted grosses of The Mummy Returns, I Am Legend and War of the Worlds), It will be ahead of every somewhat scary movie save for Signs ($228m in 2002)/$348m adjusted), Fatal Attraction ($156m in 1987/$352m adjusted), Psycho ($32m in 1960/$379m adjusted), Gremlins ($153m in 1984/$404m adjusted), The Lost World: Jurassic Park ($229m in 1997/$443m adjusted), House of Wax ($23.5m in 1954/$449m adjusted), The Sixth Sense ($292m in 1999/$512m adjusted), Ghostbusters ($229m in 1984/$604m adjusted), Jurassic World ($652m in 2015/$703m adjusted), Jurassic Park ($357m in 1993/$766m adjusted), The Exorcist ($233m in 1973/$983m adjusted) and Jaws ($260m in 1975/$1.1 billion adjusted).
And if you want to argue that some of those don’t count, well that just pushes It’s ranking a bit higher. In terms of worldwide destinations, it’s already on course to become the rare R-rated movie to crack $500 million worldwide, joining Terminator 2, The Revenant, American Sniper, Ted, The Mermaid, Fifty Shades of Grey, The Hangover part II, The Passion of the Christ, The Matrix Reloaded, Deadpool and (the unrated but insanely violent) Wolf Warrior 2(which has $870m worldwide). And if we merely do the inflationary math for The Exorcist, that movie would earn nearly $1.9 billion worldwide in 2017 dollars, not accounting for overseas expansion and/or potential IMAX/3D bumps.
Oh, and this may be for another day, but we shouldn’t get too crazy about It earning more in North America than overseas. First of all, that’s not a bar for success provided the numbers are big enough. Second of all, we don’t want to penalize a movie for over-performing domestically. And third, if we want movies that aren’t $150-$200 million action fantasy franchise starters that are tailored made to theoretically score overseas, then we ought to be happy when big movies don’t need overseas grosses to break even. It’s just another way that It is performing like a Star Wars movie for horror.
Box Office: 'It' Is Now The Highest-Grossing R-Rated Horror Movie Ever
SEP 22, 2017 @ 10:00 AM1,903
Box Office: 'It' Is Now The Highest-Grossing R-Rated Horror Movie
Photo by Brooke Palmer - © 2016 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.
Stephen King's 'It'
It, based on the classic/iconic Stephen King novel, has now earned $236.3 million domestic. That means, amusingly enough, that King celebrated his 70th birthday by watching one of his movies hit several benchmarks. First, it is now unquestionably the biggest Stephen King adaptation ever, earning more in North America than the adjusted totals of The Green Mile ($136m in 1999/$233m adjusted for 2017 ticket prices). Second, the picture has already soared past $400m worldwide, earning $409m thus far (not counting whatever it made overseas yesterday). That puts it ahead of Prometheusas essentially the second-biggest R-rated scary movie ever behind only The Exorcist($441m).
The $35 million horror drama has now earned more in unadjusted domestic grosses than The Exorcist ($232.9m, counting the 2000 reissue), giving it the top spot among R-rated scary movies. That’s a record that has held for 44 years. And by the end of the weekend, with around $30m for the Fri-Sun frame and around $266m after 17 days, the film will be the third-biggest supernatural horror movie of all time behind The Exorcist and The Sixth Sense ($292m in 1999). The Warner Bros./Time Warner Inc. and New Line release will eventually become the fourth R-rated movie to top $300m domestic, behind American Sniper ($350m), Deadpool ($363m) and The Passion of the Christ ($372m)
If it ends its run past $327 million (just ahead of adjusted grosses of The Mummy Returns, I Am Legend and War of the Worlds), It will be ahead of every somewhat scary movie save for Signs ($228m in 2002)/$348m adjusted), Fatal Attraction ($156m in 1987/$352m adjusted), Psycho ($32m in 1960/$379m adjusted), Gremlins ($153m in 1984/$404m adjusted), The Lost World: Jurassic Park ($229m in 1997/$443m adjusted), House of Wax ($23.5m in 1954/$449m adjusted), The Sixth Sense ($292m in 1999/$512m adjusted), Ghostbusters ($229m in 1984/$604m adjusted), Jurassic World ($652m in 2015/$703m adjusted), Jurassic Park ($357m in 1993/$766m adjusted), The Exorcist ($233m in 1973/$983m adjusted) and Jaws ($260m in 1975/$1.1 billion adjusted).
And if you want to argue that some of those don’t count, well that just pushes It’s ranking a bit higher. In terms of worldwide destinations, it’s already on course to become the rare R-rated movie to crack $500 million worldwide, joining Terminator 2, The Revenant, American Sniper, Ted, The Mermaid, Fifty Shades of Grey, The Hangover part II, The Passion of the Christ, The Matrix Reloaded, Deadpool and (the unrated but insanely violent) Wolf Warrior 2(which has $870m worldwide). And if we merely do the inflationary math for The Exorcist, that movie would earn nearly $1.9 billion worldwide in 2017 dollars, not accounting for overseas expansion and/or potential IMAX/3D bumps.
Oh, and this may be for another day, but we shouldn’t get too crazy about It earning more in North America than overseas. First of all, that’s not a bar for success provided the numbers are big enough. Second of all, we don’t want to penalize a movie for over-performing domestically. And third, if we want movies that aren’t $150-$200 million action fantasy franchise starters that are tailored made to theoretically score overseas, then we ought to be happy when big movies don’t need overseas grosses to break even. It’s just another way that It is performing like a Star Wars movie for horror.
I know IT pre-dates Stranger Things but at the same time it seems like they studied Stranger Things imo.
uhh I gotta go." And pennywise was like, "without your boat?" Then with that blank stare goes "bills gonna kill you."
