Social media dominating ‘It’ breaks the records for largest September opening, largest Autumn opening and the largest opening for an R-rated horror film.

After having a hugely successful opening day, non-disappointingly the repeat has happened on Box Office weekend for Andy Muschietti’s directed ‘It’.

The adaptation of the well-known Stephen King’s novel cleared the way at the Box Office Weekend as films near it did not even come close. In second place came romantic comedy ‘Home Again’ with a much smaller take of $9 million, whilst in third came ‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard’ which has taken a step down from the Box Office weekend top spot with a modest $4.8 million.

Whilst ‘It” did well in the United States the film also did well in the UK bringing in a decent amount of $12.3 million and in Russia $6.7 million.

Globally ‘It’ has already turned in $179 million, and it looks like it will break even more records during its jaw opening run.

‘It’ a film based on Stephen King’s novel came out big with a massive $51 million on its opening day.

With a production budget of around $35 million, the film has surpassed some expectations as it achieved the thirtieth highest opening day of all time.

In second place on Friday came ‘Home Again’ with a much smaller $3 million, whilst in third action buddy comedy ‘The Hitman’s Bodyguard’ with $1.38 million.

The film gained a lot of social media attention as the film is an adaptation of Stephen King’s 1986 novel ‘It’. Many praised the movie, John Nugent from Empire saying “More successful as a coming-of-age movie than a horror, It still ranks among the better Stephen King adaptations — no small praise indeed.”.

Some of the records the film has already broken are:

• Largest Thursday Pre-Show for a Horror Movie
• Largest Thursday Pre-Show for an R-Rated Movie
• Largest Thursday Pre-Show for a September Movie
• Largest Friday for a September Movie
• Largest # of Locations for an R-Rated Movie

A Netflix original documentary ‘One of Us’ has been given a dramatic trailer.

With Netflix pushing the boundaries in the streaming world with no surprise, we are receiving more and more unique documentaries. This time we are presented with ‘One of Us’, a documentary that explores the misty world of Hasidic Judaism through a cadre of fascinating characters.

The documentary was made over three years by two observational documentary filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady who take a deep look into the lives of three brave individuals that made the decision to leave the ultra-orthodox community at the expense of relationships, families and their personal safety.

The documentary is part of the Official Selection for Toronto International Film Festival.

‘One of Us’ will be available to stream only on Netflix from the 20th of October.

Here is the trailer for the new and original documentary ‘One of Us