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ITcontinued its book pace at the domesticated box seat office Tuesday by ruin another September record . The first big CRT screen adaptation of Stephen King ’s shivery 1986 classical novel , IThas been a force to be consider with since Thursday night preview , where it pulled in $ 13.7 million to arrange the record for thehighest - gross September preview .
Since then , the film has been slaying September box office record almost day by day , with the biggestFriday , weekend , andMondayon record . On top of that , the cinema has already set several records for a horror movie in September , as well as a young disc for thebiggest opener for a repulsion film ever . In accession , on Tuesday , ITbecame thehighest - grossing Stephen King movie of all clock time , an impressive exploit consider 33 movies have been adapted from the author ’s works .
grant toDeadline , Tuesday was also a streamer day for the film , as its $ 11.4 million in domesticated slate sales set a record for the biggest September Tuesday ever . The publishing place out that the bit is so telling that no cinema in October has ever pulled in that much money on a Tuesday . In fact , IT’sTuesday gross is on par with some of the all - time biggest Tuesdays in November , which belong to the likes ofHunger Games : Catching Fire , which made $ 15.96 million on Nov. 26 , 2013;Hunger game : Mockingjay Part 1($12.1 million on Nov. 25 , 2014);and The Twilight Saga : Breaking Dawn Part 2($11.77 million Nov. 20 2012 ) .
Deadlineestimated that at this pace , ITshould surmount the $ 200 million mark at the domesticated boxwood government agency this weekend . The flick ’s running tally through Tuesday is at $ 143.6 million . With such impressive numbers , the film has a lawful shaft at set two more significant corner government agency records . The current all - time high grossing R - rated horror photographic film is 1973’sThe Exorcist , which in its initial release and subsequent re - release has grossed $ 232.9 million stagily . After that , the highest - gross horror motion picture of all - prison term is the PG-13 ratedThe Sixth Sense , which pulled in $ 293.5 million during its theatrical tally in 1999 .
While Warner Bros. and director Andy Muschietti are no doubt lionize the grotesque reception ofIT , they wo n’t have long before they need to get back to work on the sequel , which will focus on the adult version of the Losers Club , 27 days after the events of the first film . The subsequence will involve to fare together rather apace – not so much to capitalize on the hype generate by the first moving picture – but because of thehuge front the younger version of the Losers Clubwill have in the continuation ’s flashback scenes . Muschetti says that since the actors are all adolescents and are develop quickly , filming needs to happen soon so they resemble the version of themselves in the firstIT .
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