Halloween II
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Box office...to a weak $10,000 at two theaters. The Weinstein Co. expanded its August release, Halloween II, to take advantage of the holiday but did virtually no business, grossing just $445,344 at 1,083 theaters. Overall, the weekend box office was a... In this article: Halloween, United States, All rights reserved, DVD, The Weinstein Co., Jared Hess, Halloween II, and Napoleon Dynamite |
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Chicago Tribune | November 01, 2009
'Michael Jackson's This Is It' performs well overseas
...Jared Hess, opened to a weak $10,000 at two theaters. Weinstein Co. expanded its August release of "Halloween II" to take advantage of the holiday, but grossed just $475,000 at 1,083 theaters. Copyright © 2009, The Los Angeles Times
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www.latimes.com
'The Final Destination' wins duel with 'Halloween II'
...did as [well] as it did." Weinstein Co. wanted to open "Halloween II" close to the two-year anniversary of the successful debut of the first movie, which relaunched the series that began with 1978's "Halloween." After Warner Bros. in March...
In this article: Weinstein Co., Bob Weinstein, Inglourious Basterds, Halloween, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros., New Line, My Bloody Valentine, and Canada
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The Hollywood Reporter | August 27, 2009
Horror sequels take a stab at the boxoffice
...four-day weekend. The Weinstein Co.'s Dimension Films bows Rob Zombie's "Halloween 2," and Warner Bros. debuts 3D gorefest "The Final Destination," the fourth installment in New Line's 9-year-old fright franchise. Also Friday, Focus...
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L.A. Times - Movie News | August 23, 2009
Weekend box office: 'Basterds' opens to a glorious $37.6 million
...could play well for a few weeks and quite possibly top $100 million domestically. Next weekend, it runs into another Weinstein Co. release, "Halloween II." Harvey Weinstein said, starting on Monday, he'll be marketing the Tarantino film as...
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Entertainment Weekly | August 30, 2009
'Halloween' to be back -- in 3-D: Report
...Times that the next chapter in the Michael Myers saga would be in 3-D, too. New Line's The Final Destination handily beat Weinstein's Halloween II this weekend, pulling in an estimated $28.3 million to snag first place at the box office, while...
In this article: Michael Myers, Halloween, Rob Zombie, Halloween, and Bob Weinstein
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The Hollywood Reporter | August 23, 2009
Fuse joins 'Halloween II' promotion
...Sheri Moon Zombie (Getty) In Fuse's first co-branded integration campaign with a film studio, the music-centered cable channel has teamed with the Weinstein Co. to promote the Aug. 28 release of "Halloween II." During the week of Aug. 24,...
In this article: Rob Zombie, Fuse, Halloween, Sheri Moon Zombie, Weinstein Co., and Halloween II
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Kansas City Star | August 23, 2009
Pitt, Tarantino's 'Basterds' earns glorious $37.6M
Weinstein said his new company has a strong lineup ahead, including next weekend's horror sequel "Halloween II" along with "Chicago" director Rob Marshall's musical "Nine" and the post-apocalypse saga "The Road" late in the year.
In this article: Quentin Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds, Miramax, Brad Pitt, Weinstein Co., Chicago, Disney, Academy Awards, Sony, and Harvey Weinstein
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Defamer | August 11, 2009
Harvey Weinstein's Last Stand
...fortunes of Tarantino's movie: According to Nikki Finke, the Weinstein Company has pushed back the remainder of its 2009 slate of films-save Halloween II, which opens a week later-in order to put all available resources into marketing Basterds.
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The Hollywood Reporter | September 06, 2009
'Final Destination' repeats at the boxoffice
...in just $5.3 million in 10th. The Weinstein Co.'s horror film" Halloween II" fell 66% in its sophomore session, scaring up $7.1 million in sixth place over its latest four days for a $27.1 million cume. But the indie's Brad Pitt starrer...
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Halloween II is a 1981 horror film set in the fictional Midwest town of Haddonfield, Illinois, on Halloween night, 1978. It is the sequel to the influential film Halloween (1978). Halloween II was directed by Rick Rosenthal and stars Donald Pleasence as Dr. Sam Loomis, Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode, and stunt performer Dick Warlock as Michael Myers. While other films in the Halloween series follow, this is the last one written by John Carpenter and Debra Hill. The film immediately follows the events of the first film, and centers on Myers' attempts to find and kill Laurie Strode and Loomis' efforts to track and kill Myers.
Stylistically, the sequel reproduces certain key elements that made the original Halloween a success such as first-person camera perspectives and unexceptional settings. The film, however, departs significantly from the original by incorporating more graphic violence and gore, making it imitate more closely other films in the emerging slasher film sub-genre. Still, Halloween II was a nice box office success grossing over $25.5 million at the box office in the United States.
Halloween II was intended to be the last chapter of the Halloween series to revolve around Michael Myers and the Haddonfield setting, but after the lackluster reaction to Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982), Myers returned seven years later in the film Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988). The 1998 film Halloween H20: 20 Years Later would also be intended as a sequel to Halloween II.
- Name:
- Halloween II
- Country of Origin:
- United States
- Release Date:
- October 30, 1981
- Preceded By:
- Halloween (1978)
- Directed By:
- Produced by:
- Debra Hill
- Written By:
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- John Carpenter
- Debra Hill
- Editor:
- Starring:
- Cinematography:
- Dean Cundey
- Music By:
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- Alan Howarth
- John Carpenter
- Distributed By:
- Universal Pictures
- Length:
- 92 min.
- Language:
- English
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