The hot sequence of the September box office goes out in the section while the sale of tickets plunged 50%

Overall ticket sales fell by almost 50% compared to last weekend, the Holdver champion “Demon Slayer” going the newcomer “Him” for first place, according to Studio estimates on Sunday. The “Demon Slayer” of Crunchyroll and Sony Pictures added $ 17.3 million over the weekend, bringing its total to $ 104.7 million, making it the most profitable anime film ever high in North America.

The “Him” football horror opened with around $ 13.5 million in ticket sales. Universal Pictures opened “him” in 3,168 North American theaters, where the public was 52% male and 65% on the age of 25. Internationally, he won $ 400,000.

Produced by Peele’s Monkeypaw and directed by Justin Tipping, “Him”, talks about a promising young quarter (Tyriq Withers) who is invited to train with a veteran (Marlon Wayans) in an isolated compound.

“Him” marked with neither the criticisms (he does not relate 29% to Rotten Tomatoes) nor the public, which gave the film a C-Cinemascore. In his criticism of the Associated Press, the editor of Cinema Jake Coyle wrote that the film “was directed with the powerful premise to bring it the kind of dark and satirical perspective which characterizes a production of Monkeypaw to our violent national pastime. But this promise is escaped in an allegorical chamber game which becomes more and more tedious.”

“Him” was also almost offset by another horror, “The Conjuring: Last Rights”, which made around $ 13 million in its third weekend. With a global total of $ 400 million, it is now the biggest film in the conjuring universe.

These are two of the three horror films in the top 10 of this weekend, including “Weapons”. According to the Comscre database, this year alone has generated $ 1.1 billion in national box office receipts, only several million tickets from the 2017 record piloted by “IT” and “Get Out”.

“Horror films were a bit of a hot sequence,” said Paul Dergarabedian, head of comscore trends on the market. “It will be a record year.”

In addition to “Demon Slayer”, Sony also had a new film this weekend: the original romance “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey”, with Robbie and Farrell, but that made an audience pass, winning only $ 3.5 million on 3,300 locations. He also received largely negative criticisms and currently has 37% on rotten tomatoes.

“The public is selective in what they want to see,” said Dergarabedian. “Negative criticisms can create very solid opposite winds for original films without brand recognition.”

In its second weekend, “Downton Abbey: The Grand Final” added an additional $ 6.3 million, bringing its total operating to $ 31.6 million. The adaptation of Stephen King “The Long Walk” also estimates $ 6.3 million on weekends two, down only 46% compared to its opening. Its national total of $ 22.7 million has already exceeded its production budget of $ 20 million (although this sum does not take into account marketing and promotion).

Ron Howard’s hit in 1995 “Apollo 13” also played in 200 theaters this weekend for its 30th anniversary. He won about $ 600,000. The reissue of the 30th anniversary of “Toy Story”, now in its second weekend, added $ 1.4 million.

Next weekend, there is excitement surrounding the new film by Paul Thomas Anderson “One Battle After Other”, although its greatest success to date remains the 2007 film “Tella Bod Bood”, which has made a little more than $ 76 million worldwide, and not taking into account inflation.

And just on his heels is a very different cinema experience: AMC Theatres is organizing a release party for the 12th studio album of Taylor Swift, “The Life of a Showgirl”. The 90-minute show, rightly entitled “The official release group of a showgirl”, will play in the 540 AMC theaters in the United States from October 3 to October 5.

Top 10 films at the national ticket office

According to Comscore, with the national final figures, this list is launched in sales of estimated tickets from Friday to Sunday in the United States and Canadian theaters.

1. “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Infinity Castle” 17.3 million dollars

2. “Him”, $ 13.5 million.

3. The Conjuring: Last Rites “, $ 13 million.

4. (Equality) “The long walk”, $ 6.3 million.

4. (Tie) “Downton Abbey: The Grand Final”, $ 6.3 million.

6. “A big daring trip”, $ 3.5 million.

7. “The senior”, $ 2.8 million.

8. “Toy Story” (30th anniversary reissue), 1.4 million dollars.

9. “Sight & sound presents: Noah – Live!” $ 1.4 million.

10. “Weapons”, $ 1.3 million.

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