People weren’t just trick-or-treating, parading or creating an insane traffic block between Santa Monica Blvd and Hollywood, they were actually going to the movies on Halloween, with the top ten titles seeing an average increase of 46% of their activity yesterday compared to Wednesday.

Sony Venom: The Last Dance ruled Halloween with $2.8 million+12%, for a first week of $63.9M. However, the Culver City lot also had the Miramax version of the Robert Zemeckis-Tom Hanks-Robin Wright. Forrest Gump meeting, Here, who posted $475,000 in previews of shows that started at 2 p.m. in 2,402 locations. That’s close to the same preview amount as Focus Features. Conclave and A24 We live in time posted recently (both of these films grossed $500,000 each on Thursday). The hope is that this $50 million drama, which shows generations of families on the same land from a fixed camera angle, will open to audiences. 7 million dollarsperhaps more if an older, sophisticated audience finds it, this despite a terrible 38% on Rotten Tomatoes. The photo is a distribution deal for Sony which has released Hanks films in recent years, A man called Otto And A beautiful day in the neighborhood.

Tracking company Quorum applauds Sony for having the audacity to release a film right before the election. Some filmmakers have avoided this, particularly comedies. Despite criticism of Here, Awareness of the film increased from 28% to 37%, but interest remains low.

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