Ridley Scott's medieval epic film the last duel won high movie reviews
Jamie Lee Curtis responded to the box office success of “the last duel”. The former is a sequel to the Halloween series directed by David Gordon Green in 2018. The series starts with John Carpenter’s immortal original in 1978 and will continue to be released at the end of Halloween next year. Carpenter’s Halloween is regarded as an iconic and defined type of film. It not only shapes the future of horror films, but also marks the first film in Curtis’s legendary career as a film actor.
Although “Halloween killing” has not received a good response in the critics, Green’s film has performed strongly at the box office so far. Although it was broadcast simultaneously on the streaming media service peacock, it won more than $50 million at the box office in its first weekend. At the same time, Ridley Scott’s medieval epic film the last duel won high movie reviews at the premiere of the film festival, but it was difficult to attract the audience. Although it has a star studded cast including Jodie comer, Matt Damon, Adam driver and Ben Affleck, and is only distributed exclusively in the cinema, the film only received $4.8 million at the box office at the same time.
Now, Curtis has responded to the two films’ very different financial performance through instagram. Although she shared a title to directly compete the two films, the actress of Halloween killing celebrated her latest release and didn’t seize the opportunity to pour water in the last duel. On the contrary, Curtis stressed to remind fans to sympathize with the actors, staff and production team behind the film. She said she knew that it was “not interesting” to make her project perform poorly. Check Curtis’s complete post as follows:
“Halloween killing” series has always been low-cost and high box office, and the latest “Halloween killing” also continues this trend – it is reported that the budget of “Halloween killing” is $20 million, and the box office revenue has more than doubled this figure. On the other hand, it is reported that the production cost of “the last duel” is US $100 million, which makes its insignificant US $4.8 million box office at the first weekend even more worrying to the film team. Although Scott’s film still has a long time to release, the box office tends to peak at the premiere weekend, so the film is almost sure to suffer heavy losses.
The reasons for the different outcomes of the two films may still be related to the epidemic situation. Compared with the last duel, the target audience of Halloween killing is younger audiences, because the potential audience of the latter still seems to be hesitant to return to the cinema. For upcoming films, such as dune castle, which premiered in the United States this week, it is uncertain what the box office results mean. Although filmmakers and studios should be encouraged by the success of Halloween killing, the last duel reminds people that not everything is back to its pre epidemic state.
