UK-Ireland box office preview: can the ‘Candyman’ continue recent horror success?

Further new openers include ‘Our Ladies’, ‘The Nest’.Universal’s franchise title Candyman leads this weekend’s new openers at the UK-Ireland box office, looking to join the list of horror films to have made strong debuts since cinemas reopened.Candyman is directed by Nia DaCosta and written by DaCosta, Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld.

It is a direct sequel to the 1992 film of the same name, and the fourth film in the Candyman series, based on Clive Barker’s 1985 short story The Forbidden.The film has been delayed several times due to the pandemic, having been first scheduled for June,

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