SONY - 'Halloween Kills' paces U.S. theaters to third straight $100M weekend

Halloween Kills (CMCSA -1.7%) gored its way to the top spot of the domestic box office, as expected, scoring $50.4 million to easily outpace some healthy competition. That result came in healthy even though the film also launched simultaneously on NBCUniversal's Peacock streaming service, offering the latest indicator of some still-healthy demand for in-person movies. And it was well ahead of a $24.3 million performance from James Bond film No Time to Die (OTC:MGMB, CMCSA -1.7%), which dropped off 56% in its second week and averaged less than half per screen that Halloween Kills did. With an earlier international debut, No Time to Die has hit $447.8 million in worldwide grosses, however. The strong weekend meant the total domestic box office surpassed $100 million for the third weekend in a row, a pandemic-era first. In third place at home was the third weekend of Venom: Let There Be Carnage (SONY -0.4%), which also

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'Halloween Kills' paces U.S. theaters to third straight $100M weekend