With the Halloween season in full swing, theaters will see another revival of a long-standing horror franchise. The Exorcist: Believer opens in theaters this weekend and is slated for solid earnings in the box office.
Originally slated for the more than fitting release date Friday, October 13th, the film was pushed up a week once it was announced that the movie of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour concert would hit theaters that same weekend. Had it stayed on that weekend, it would’ve been absolutely decimated by Swift.
The Exorcist: Believer is a follow up to the original 1973 classic, about a young girl who gets possessed by a supernatural force, and upon exhausting every possible resource, her mother, played by Ellen Burstyn, turns to one last option: an exorcism. Now a father faces a similar issue, and turns to the last person who’s experienced the same problem.
Coming from David Gordon Green, who just recently helmed the recent Halloween trilogy, The Exorcist: Believer is the first in a planned trilogy from Green, with a sequel already planned for April 18th of 2025.
Now that the film is coming on a weekend with very little competition, it’s looking to nab an opening gross in the ballpark of $30 million to $36 million, as Variety reports.
It comes out right in between last weekend’s Saw X and PAW Patrol, and next weekend’s Eras Tour, meaning it’ll have its premiere all to itself. The only other opening competition is Martin Scorsese’s Killers Of The Flower Moon, which kicks off its limited release this weekend.
The Exorcist: Believer hits theaters October 6th.
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