Box Office: October 22-24, 2021: DUNE, HALLOWEEN KILLS, NO TIME TO DIE, & More

Box Office: October 22-24, 2021

The theatrical movie box office results for October 22, 2021 through October 24, 2021 have been released.

Dune premiered in the Number One spot at the United States box office with $41 Million.

Halloween Kills was Second at the box office with $14.5 Million.

No Time to Die was Third at the United States box office with $11.8 Million for $120 Million so far. World-wide, the film has made $525.6 Million.

Venom: Let There be Carnage was Fourth at the box office with $14.5 Million for 181.8 Million so far. World-wide, the film has made $352.4 Million.

Ron’s Gone Wrong premiered in Fifth Place at the box office with $7.3 Million.

These films: The Addams Family 2, The Last Duel, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, The French Dispatch (which premiered this weekend), and Free Guy rounded out the Top Ten respectively.

The films in the Top Ten that opened this weekend at the box office:

Dune (titled onscreen as Dune: Part One) is a 2021 American epic science fiction film directed by Denis Villeneuve with a screenplay by Jon Spaihts, Villeneuve, and Eric Roth. It is the first of a planned two-part adaptation of the 1965 novel of the same name by Frank Herbert, primarily covering the first half of the book. Set in the far future, it follows Paul Atreides, as he and his family, the noble House Atreides, are thrust into a war for the dangerous desert planet Arrakis, between the native Fremen people and the enemy invaders, and former rulers of Arrakis, the House Harkonnen. The film stars an ensemble cast including Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Zendaya, David Dastmalchian, Chang Chen, Sharon Duncan-Brewster, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa, and Javier Bardem.

Ron’s Gone Wrong is a 2021 computer-animated science fiction comedy film directed by Jean-Philippe Vine and Sarah Smith, co-directed by Octavio E. Rodriguez, and written by Peter Baynham and Smith. The film stars an ensemble cast which includes Zach Galifianakis, Jack Dylan Grazer, Ed Helms, Justice Smith, Rob Delaney, Kylie Cantrall, Ricardo Hurtado, and Olivia Colman.

The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun is a 2021 American comedy-drama anthology film written, directed, and produced by Wes Anderson from a story he conceived with Roman Coppola, Hugo Guinness, and Jason Schwartzman. The film stars an ensemble cast featuring Benicio del Toro, Adrien Brody, Tilda Swinton, Léa Seydoux, Frances McDormand, Timothée Chalamet, Lyna Khoudri, Jeffrey Wright, Mathieu Amalric, Stephen Park, Bill Murray, and Owen Wilson. Its plot follows three different storylines as the French foreign bureau of a fictional Kansas newspaper creates its final issue.

Additional cast members in The French Dispatch include Liev Schreiber, Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Saoirse Ronan, Elisabeth Moss, Jason Schwartzman, and Anjelica Huston.

Next week sees the release of: Antlers, Last Night in Soho, A Mouthful of Air, My Hero Academia: World Heroes’ Mission, Snakehead, and a plethora of other mainstream and independent films. Find my predictions on these releases in the weekly The Bottom Line column. A preview: Halloween Kills will be Number One at the box office.

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