Jigsaw Projected to Top the Box Office Ahead of Halloween

Jigsaw

Jigsaw- the latest entrance in the popularSawhorror enfranchisement - is projected to top the boxwood office onward of the Halloween holiday . From 2004 to 2010,Sawregularly ruled the late October box office , even lark about the slogan " If it ’s Halloween , it must beSaw " for a sentence . While it ’s no surprise that a horror movie would execute well during the Halloween season , theSawseries proved so predominant that for most of its tally , studios did n’t even trouble trying to provide it other horror films to vie with .

At this full stop though , the days ofSaw’sbox role dominance seem far behind , with Jigsaw not play any newfangled theatrical secret plan in the preceding seven years . However , as any horror fan know , the genre’sbest monster and villain are almost never gone for good , and Jigsaw wo n’t be any different . Of course , it remains to be seen how the title character will in reality figure into the plot this time , as John " Jigsaw " Kramer has been dead sinceSaw III.That say , his death did n’t stop him from somehow orchestrating the events ofSaws IV - VII .

After such a tenacious layoff though , some have wonder whetherSawwould still be equal to of drawing a crowd . allot toVariety’slatest box office projection , the resolution is a reverberative yes . Jigsawis brace for a domesticated orifice weekend somewhere between $ 18 and $ 22 million , likely ending up powerful around $ 20 million . That ’ll be more than enough to knock offBoo 2 ! : A Madea Halloweenfrom the # 1 spot .

With an estimated production budget of $ 10 million , an opening weekend around $ 20 million would at the very least turn on the plastic film to break even financially , if not quite advertise it into profitability . That say , after international gross and subsequent weeks are added to the total , there ’s almost no imaginable way thatJigsawdoesn’t end up hauling in liberal profits for studio Lionsgate . For address , 2010’sSaw three-D : The Final Chapterhauled in nearly $ 140 million worldwide , after a domesticated orifice of $ 22.5 million .

It ’s deserving noting thatJigsawactually sports half the budget ofSaw 3D , which cost $ 20 million to make . Thus , ifJigsawperforms likewise to its predecessor , it ’ll end up being importantly more profitable . With that in mind , one wonders if anotherSawinstallment will be in the cards for next October .