Whether it flopped or not, it wouldn't come out that fast.

There is no way they could master the amount of Discs they would need for a release that soon. If they had been working on the DVDs for awhile before the theatrical release, they could have possibly gotten this out on time.

Personally I think that disney will "rerelease" or atleast boost the theaters playing the movie for that week...

Typically studios are working on DVD content DURING the filming process of new movies. In some cases the DVDs are prepped and ready to go just a few months after release. It's why you'll sometimes see a film that did moderately well in summer make it to DVD by October/November in time for the holiday season.

From Justin to Kelly - Theatrical Release - 6/20/03
From Justin to Kelly - DVD Release - 8/26/03

It's happened before. *shudders*

They'd never do it with a movie like this though. It relies on the novelty of the holiday. Hardly anyone would bother seeing it in theaters if a DVD were announced for mid-late October...

SHOWGIRLS went to laserdisc like in 2 months after it was the theater.

"From Justin to Kelly" was a flat out bomb which didn't even make $5 million total. That's why that was shipped to DVD so fast. It might technically not be a bomb (I don't know the budget), but it was considered a huge flop at the time.

"Halloween," like the movie or not, is considered a nice success, financially speaking, for the horror genre -- and the sole "R" rated horror film to do well this year. I doubt this will be on DVD in October. Anthing's possible, but I very much doubt it.

"Freddy vs. Jason" was released in January after its August release, for example.

Halloween made over $30 million dollars in 4 days and now holds the all-time record for a Labor Day weekend release. Any talk about this movie being a flop/bomb is silly. I have no idea what the budget was, but I guarantee that it made a profit by the 3rd day of release.

They won't be rushing this to DVD. They'll be hoping for some theatrical legs into October.

I've heard the budget was somewhere in the neighborhood of $25million when you count in the reshoots... But the question is if that includes the promotional campaign as well - which could easily be another $10/20 million...

The film will break even during it's theatrical release, but the film is sinking faster than the Titanic. Word is spreading fast that the film sucks.

During it's first weekend, Labor Day not being counted, it pulled in $24 million. There's a strong chance that in it's second weekend that it might not even surpass $10 million despite not much being released. That's nearly a 60% drop. The last film in the franchise to take such a hit was The Curse of Michael Myers.

I know it's not a huge difference, but it actually made 26.3 million.

I think it'll do more than break even. It only had a 15 million dollar budget. I know there's advertising and all that crap, but no way does it have a "Grindhouse" price tag lugging along with it. It'll have 34-35 million before this weekend even gets here. I 100 percent agree with you that the film will have a huge drop this weekend, though.

And it was only in the theater for like 3 days!

I'd love to see Zombie release this as a 2-disc set with the theatrical and (IMO, superior) workprint version included. He shot A LOT of alternate footage that I'd love to see, some of which never made it into either cut such as Adrienne Barbeau's role. It's far from a perfect, or even great film, but I found myself enjoying it and I hope he can improve the film for DVD.

From Dread Central -

With the unprecedented success of Rob Zombie’s Halloween, and the good news that’s been floating around that neither Zombie nor Dimension want to keep making sequels, of course talk has to start about the forthcoming DVD.

Zombie chatted it up with Fangoria recently and revealed that pretty much everything that was missing from the theatrical cut but existed in the Halloween work print (review) will be back in the film. ”I always kinda get carried away and stuff too many people in there, and film too much.” Zombie admitted to the magazine, ”Then [in editing] I go, ‘Well ... sad as it’ll be, Adrienne [Barbaeu wound up on the cutting room floor].’ You know, I get so excited, like now’s the chance to work with everybody all at once.”

Included will be extended scenes with young Michael (Daeg Faerch) and Loomis in Smithsgrove, a parole sequence that will give more screen time to Udo Kier and Clint Howard (never a bad thing) and more.

Since it’s only been out a week there are no solid DVD plans yet, but Zombie did confirm that he’s working on a documentary for the disc similar to The Devil’s Rejects “30 Days in Hell” featurette. So now you have two reasons to actually want to buy the DVD when it comes out!

- Johnny Butane

While I'm sure Zombie may be willing to walk away, there's no way I'm going to believe that Dimension and Akkad will. We don't know what the final tally will be, but it's looking like this thing is going to finish with $60-ish million in domestic box office.

I realize that we're now dealing with slightly different players (as Dimension is no longer with Disney and it's Malek Akkad rather than Moustapha), but history has shown that they aren't shy about making sequels in this franchise. With a very successful reboot in their hands, I don't see them stopping.

God'll get you for that Zombie!

If it is a new cut of the film, I will check it out. I didn't watch the workprint, only the theatrical. It wasn't that bad (and it wasn't good either), but it seemed like Zombie had no idea where he wanted to go with the film. It was really uneven.

Strongly agree. But I love the Halloween franchise and will gladly add the HD-DVD to my collection once it gets released with the workprint version as well (this is all assumption of course).

I'm Sorry me bad no cookies for me,put me in the corner.

Let's see a show of hands of how many here did see Showgirls on Big-Screen back in the day
And in my town it was here for 2 whole weeks there must have been something in the water that week.

Looks like the mods already did.

The flick will produce monster DVD sales as well...........

They've already been talking about plans for the remake since this movie was in the production... From what I heard 'Halloween' was suppose to be "How he became a serial killer." "Halloween, part 2" in plot is a remake of the second film, but brings in the whole druid storyline from part six. And, "Halloween: The Night he came home" is suppose to be around Laurie having her baby, michael coming after them, and Laurie faking her and her daughter's death to protect them from Michael in the future (essentially the events between the original "Halloween 2" and "Halloween 3"...

I think you meant "Halloween 4." "Halloween 3" was about evil Halloween masks and killer androids.

Freddy vs. Jason dropped over 60%. 60% drops are not uncommon for horror films. Kinda silly comparing it to "Curse" considering it beat out "Curse's" entire run in three days, don't you think? Similar drop or not.

This film will still close at about 60 million or so -- and whatever it ends up making overseas. The film will also do very well on DVD -- like many horror films do.

Would this film have done better if it were a better movie? Maybe, but it's in no way a financial failure.

Of course most people who spoil things deserve…

I don't even think it hits $60 million. Since the day of release, the daily box office total has dropped, and not just dropped, but dropped pretty hard. It even dropped from Friday to Saturday, and even Balls of Furry didn't drop like that.

There's not enough people out there still wanting to watch this one to push it to $60, or maybe not even $50. Most of the rabid fans saw it on Friday night, with the rest of them making their way as they could find the time over the rest of the long weekend. As for the more casual fans, many of them were either didn't care to start with, or the negative reviews totally convinced them to ignore it.