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Box Office: “It Chapter Two” Scares Up $37 Mil Opening, Eyes $103 Mil Weekend Even with Mixed Reviews

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Horror film addicts never tired of being scared. You’d think the daily news cycle would be enough.

Yet, the success of “It: Chapter Two” suggests clowntime is not over. The sequel to “It,” the remake of Stephen King’s hit novel and movie, made $37 million in its debut Friday with $10 million from Thursday previews.

The movie is eying $103 million for the weekend. That’s quite an accomplishment  in what has been a sluggish box office year. Warner Bros. can relax. Mixed reviews- a 66 score on Rotten Tomatoes– didn’t deter the faithful.

Can there be more “It”? I suppose there can be more of anything, really. Stephen King is probably looking through his notebooks as we speak.

Meantime, Warner Bros. is on a roll. So is Sony. As we always discover, it’s all cyclical.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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