"Hunter Killer," the new Gerard Butler submarine movie, will be no match for the murderous Michael Myers at the box office this weekend.
The military thriller, released by Lionsgate, is expected to gross a modest $6 million to $9 million in the U.S. and Canada from Friday through Sunday, according to people who have read pre-release audience surveys. That would put it far behind Universal Pictures and Blumhouse Productions' hit horror sequel "Halloween," which will probably collect about $35 million in its second weekend.
"Halloween," a direct sequel to the 1978 John Carpenter classic, posted a killer opening last weekend, grossing $76 million in the United States and Canada. That's the best opening for a horror movie since Warner Bros.' "It" set box-office records last fall. "Halloween," starring Jamie Lee Curtis in the scream queen role that launched her career and set the template for the slasher genre 40 years ago, posted the biggest opening ever for the venerable scary movie franchise. Curtis once again faces off with Myers, the series' unstoppable masked killer.
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