Warner Bros.’ sci-fi tentpole Dune continued to spice up an otherwise bland Halloween weekend at the box office, pulling in $15.5 million in its sophomore frame and remaining the top movie in North America.
Meanwhile, a pair of scary-movie debuts—Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho and the Guillermo del Toro-produced Antlers—failed to click with audiences despite a roll-out timed to coincide with the spookiest holiday of the year, landing disappointingly outside of the top five.
In overseas news, the latest James Bond installment, No Time to Die, finally opened in China, albeit to softer-than-expected numbers due to a wave of Covid-related theater closures in the country.Dune’s hold on first place wasn’t much of a surprise considering that the weekend’s only new competition came from specialty-market indies, but its smaller-than-predicted -62.1% drop-off from the previous frame and the studio’s decision this week to
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