It is the highest-grossing horror film of all-time (not adjusted for inflation), and it bought there due to an enormous opening weekend: $123.four million. That’s an entire lot of clowns-only screenings. It Chapter Two isn’t anticipated to make fairly as a lot, however the Andy Muschietti-directed movie will nonetheless float to the highest of the field workplace. Variety studies that the sequel “might generate between $95 million to $110 million throughout opening weekend, in line with early monitoring. While that quantity for now could be barely behind the primary movie’s begin, ticket gross sales might balloon if buzz continues to construct for It Chapter Two because it gears up for its launch.”
Maybe the IMAX teaser above, that includes our creepiest take a look at Pennywise but (these tooth, although), will assist push It Chapter Two excessive.
Here’s the official plot abstract:
Because each 27 years evil revisits the city of Derry, Maine, It Chapter Two brings the characters — who’ve lengthy since gone their separate methods—again collectively as adults, almost three a long time after the occasions of the primary movie.
It Chapter Two, starring James McAvoy, Jessica Chastain, Bill Hader, Isaiah Mustafa, Jay Ryan, James Ransone and Andy Bean because the grownup Losers’ Club and Jaeden Martell, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Jack Dylan Grazer and Wyatt Oleff because the youthful Losers’ Club (additionally, Bill Skarsgård as Pennywise the No-Good Clown), opens on September 6.