Turkey Box Office for Korku Hikayeleri (2019)

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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Theatrical Performance (US$)
Turkey Box Office $79,427Details
Worldwide Box Office $104,793,708Details
Home Market Performance
North America DVD Sales $5,090,482 Details
North America Blu-ray Sales $4,679,714 Details
Total North America Video Sales $9,770,196
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Synopsis

It’s 1968 in America. Change is blowing in the wind… but seemingly far removed from the unrest in the cities is the small town of Mill Valley where, for generations, the shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large. It is in their mansion on the edge of town that Sarah, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has transcended time—stories that have a way of becoming all too real for a group of teenagers who discover Sarah’s terrifying tome.

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Movie Details

Production Budget:$28,000,000
Turkey Releases: August 23rd, 2019 (Wide), released as Korku Hikayeleri
Video Release: November 5th, 2019 by Lionsgate Home Entertainment
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for terror/violence, disturbing images, thematic elements, language including racial epithets, and brief sexual references.
(Rating bulletin 2585 (Cert #52250), 7/3/2019)
Running Time: 111 minutes
Keywords: 1960s, Fiction / Reality Crossover, Writing and Writers, Kids Horror, Halloween
Source:Based on Fiction Book/Short Story
Genre:Horror
Production Method:Live Action
Creative Type:Historical Fiction
Production/Financing Companies: Entertainment One, CBS Films, Rolling Hills, Starlight Media, Hivemind, 1212 Entertainment, Double Dare You
Production Countries: Canada, United States
Languages: English

2019 - Holiday Gift Guide - Part I - First-Run Releases and Franchise Box Sets

November 27th, 2019

Avengers: Endgame

It's Thanksgiving weekend, which means Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and of course the first installment of our Holiday Gift Guide. This year, Thanksgiving is as late as it could have been, which means there’s no way to squeeze in four weeks of regular installments of the gift guide, as well as the December monthly preview, etc. So we are going to have a condensed list this year. That said, there weren’t a ton of first-run releases that would have made this list regardless. More...

Home Market Releases for November 5th, 2019

November 6th, 2019

Good Omens

Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw is easily the biggest release of the week, but it is not the best. Pick of the Week contenders include Galaxy Quest and Good Omens, as well as Alice, Sweet Alice, which arrived late. I’m going with Good Omens, but all three are must haves. More...

Weekend Wrap-Up: Good Does Well, Box Office is Still Weak

August 20th, 2019

Good Boys

It’s the dog days of summer and Good Boys was the only new release with an impressive debut of $21.40 million, while The Angry Birds Movie 2’s $16.09 million six-day debut isn’t a bad start for this time of year. There were a few holdovers to earn more than $10 million over the weekend, so the overall box office wasn’t a disaster, just a disappointment down 9.5% from last weekend to $119 million. More importantly, this is 7.7% lower the the same weekend last year. Year-to-date, 2019 has pulled in $7.35 billion, but this is 6.3% or $490 million behind last year’s pace. At this point, I don’t think it is possible for 2019 to catch up, but hopefully it can put together a strong last few months to at least save face. Additionally, the international box office is doing better, so worldwide it is close to a wash. More...

Weekend Estimates: Universally Good Weekend at the Box Office

August 18th, 2019

Good Boys

Good Boys and Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw are topping the weekend box office chart, so while the overall box office isn’t doing well, Universal is having a great weekend. Good Boys is leading the way with $21.0 million, which is not only better than our predictions, but better than Universal’s projections based on Friday’s estimates. It’s not all rosy, as the film’s reviews and its B plus from CinemaScore don’t suggest really long legs, while this is not the type of film to do well internationally. In fact, it is only pulling in $2.1 million during its opening weekend overseas, including $1.0 million in the U.K. More...

Friday Estimates: Good Does Great

August 17th, 2019

Good Boys

Good Boys earned first place on the Friday chart with $8.31 million. Universal is projecting a $20.8 million opening weekend based on this start, which would give the film a rather low internal multiplier. This is due to its reviews and its mere B plus from CinemaScore, neither of which are bad, but they are not great either. It would still be the fastest opening for a comedy all year and this is the first R-rated comedy to top the chart since The Boss debuted more than three years ago. On the one hand, this is great news for Good Boys. On the other hand, what the hell happened to the genre? R-rated comedies used to regularly earn $100 million or more at the box office. More...

Weekend Wrap-Up: Hobbs and Shaw Survive Their Sophomore Stint

August 12th, 2019

Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw

The weekend box office was mediocre with many of the new releases missing expectations, and some of them had low expectations to begin with. Fast and Furious Presents: Hobbs and Shaw was able to remain in first place, but on the low end of expectations, leaving Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark as the biggest positive news of the weekend. Overall, the weekend box office was 11% lower than last weekend at $132 million. Worse still, this is 10% lower than the same weekend last year, leaving 2019 further behind last year’s pace. 2019 is now behind 2018 by 6.2% or $480 million at $7.16 billion to $7.64 billion. More...

Weekend Estimates: Hobbs and Shaw Remain Top Draw

August 11th, 2019


Friday Estimates: Scary Tops Friday, Hobbs and Shaw Set to Win Weekend

August 10th, 2019

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark led the way on Friday with $7.86 million. The film’s reviews are Certified Fresh at 80% positive, but it only managed a C from CinemaScore. To be fair, this isn’t a bad result for a horror film, but it does mean it likely won’t have great legs and will sink into second place over the full weekend. It will still beat our prediction and could even become CBS Films’ best opening of all time. Right now, it is on pace to come close to The Woman in Black’s current record with about $20 million during the opening weekend. It would be ironic is CBS Films set the company record now, as it is ceasing theatrical releases and instead shifting towards streaming content. More...

Thursday Night Previews: Stories Scares Up Some Box Office Dollars

August 9th, 2019

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark had the best previews on Thursday, earning $2.3 million. It was expected to top Dora and the Lost City of Gold, because it is a horror movie and that genre tends to be a lot more front-loaded. However, it wasn’t expected to do this well and it will easily top our $15 million prediction for the weekend, especially if its reviews translate into strong word-of-mouth. More...

Weekend Predictions: Can Dora find Box Office Gold?

August 8th, 2019

Dora and the Lost City of Gold

There are five wide or semi-wide releases coming out this weekend, which is just too many and practically guarantees at least one of them will flop at the box office. Of these films, Dora and the Lost City of Gold is the only one expected to compete for first place, while Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark should do well as a low-budget horror movie. Unfortunately, The Kitchen and The Art of Racing in the Rain are not connecting with critics and that will likely keep them out of the top five. Finally, Brian Banks is opening in just 1,240 theaters and that could keep it out of the top ten. This weekend last year, The Meg opened with $45 million. No film playing this weekend will match that and I don’t think this year’s depth is going to compensate, meaning we are going to lose in the year-over-year competition yet again. More...

2019 Preview: August

August 1st, 2019

Hobbs and Shaw

July bounced back from June with both Spider-Man: Far from Home and The Lion King getting to $1 billion worldwide. Domestically, we are still behind 2018’s pace by more than $400 million, but that’s a substantial improvement over where we were at the start of the month. August should continue this winning streak, at least initially. Hobbs and Shaw could open with close to $100 million, but the only other film opening this month that has a real shot at $100 million in total is Dora and the Lost City of Gold. Last August, both Crazy Rich Asians and The Meg topped $100 million, while Christopher Robin came within 1% of that milestone. This August might be better at the very top, but I don’t think the top three this month will top the top three last month. Maybe if we get a surprise hit, it will, but I’m not willing to bet on that. On the other hand, unless something dramatic happens, 2019 should at least come close to matching last year’s pace and that’s better than most months have done this year. More...

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Trailer

May 29th, 2019

Supernatural horror movie, based on the books, opens August 9 ... Full Movie Details.

It’s 1968 in America. Change is blowing in the wind… but seemingly far removed from the unrest in the cities is the small town of Mill Valley where, for generations, the shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large. It is in their mansion on the edge of town that Sarah, a young girl with horrible secrets, turned her tortured life into a series of scary stories, written in a book that has transcended time—stories that have a way of becoming all too real for a group of teenagers who discover Sarah’s terrifying tome. More...

Because some of our sources provide box office data in their local currency, while we use USD in the graph above and table below, exchange rate fluctuations can have effect on the data causing stronger increases or even decreases of the cumulative box office.

Weekend Box Office Performance

DateRankGross% ChangeScreensPer ScreenTotal GrossWeek
2019/08/23 8 $27,031   128 $211   $27,031 1
2019/08/30 12 $13,342 -51% 82 $163   $63,182 2
2019/09/06 - $1,435 -89% 12 $120   $77,679 3
2019/09/13 - $136 -91% 2 $68   $79,427 4

Box Office Summary Per Territory

Territory Release
Date
Opening
Weekend
Opening
Weekend
Screens
Maximum
Screens
Theatrical
Engagements
Total
Box Office
Report
Date
Argentina 9/27/2019 $85,397 234 234 327 $150,677 11/10/2019
Australia 9/27/2019 $546,266 209 209 651 $1,560,297 11/13/2019
Brazil 8/9/2019 $249,000 366 366 612 $613,455 8/31/2019
Chile 8/16/2019 $212,737 75 75 75 $212,737 8/20/2019
Czech Republic 8/9/2019 $115,087 95 95 216 $330,275 10/19/2022
France 8/23/2019 $665,880 0 267 622 $1,649,514 9/26/2019
Hong Kong 8/30/2019 $151,000 0 0 0 $151,000 10/19/2022
Italy 10/24/2019 $311,576 0 24 78 $736,230 10/19/2022
Lithuania 8/9/2019 $23,803 13 13 33 $73,053 9/12/2019
Mexico 8/16/2019 $2,878,765 0 0 0 $7,812,860 10/19/2022
Netherlands 8/9/2019 $168,789 66 66 295 $616,142 10/19/2022
New Zealand 9/26/2019 $63,076 54 54 153 $149,141 10/19/2022
North America 8/9/2019 $20,915,346 3,135 3,135 19,939 $68,947,075 8/15/2024
Peru 8/9/2019 $340,000 0 0 0 $340,000 8/20/2019
Poland 8/9/2019 $192,913 160 160 480 $714,343 10/19/2022
Portugal 8/9/2019 $84,637 50 51 136 $249,950 9/10/2019
Romania 8/23/2019 $76,283 67 67 206 $221,732 10/19/2022
Russia (CIS) 8/8/2019 $701,716 1307 1310 3280 $1,926,451 10/19/2022
Slovakia 8/9/2019 $56,623 55 55 135 $171,121 9/10/2019
Slovenia 8/23/2019 $13,184 13 13 35 $36,861 10/7/2019
South Korea 3/27/2020 $105,284 185 212 533 $306,260 5/19/2020
Spain 8/9/2019 $623,909 256 278 1137 $2,709,188 9/19/2019
Taiwan 8/9/2019 $602,000 0 0 0 $602,000 8/20/2019
Turkey 8/23/2019 $27,031 128 128 224 $79,427 10/19/2022
United Kingdom 8/23/2019 $749,409 418 429 1174 $2,567,487 9/11/2019
 
Rest of World $11,866,432
 
Worldwide Total$104,793,708 8/15/2024

Full financial estimates for this film, including domestic and international box office, video sales, video rentals, TV and ancillary revenue are available through our research services. For more information, please contact us at research@the-numbers.com.

Lead Ensemble Members

Zoe Margaret Colletti    Stella Nicholls
Michael Garza    Ramón Morales
Gabriel Rush    Auggie Hilderbrandt
Austin Abrams    Tommy Milner
Dean Norris    Roy Nicholls
Gil Bellows    Police Chief Turner
Lorraine Toussaint    Lou Lou
Austin Zajur    Chuck Steinberg
Natalie Ganzhorn    Ruth Steinberg
Kathleen Pollard    Sarah Bellows

Supporting Cast

Deborah Pollitt    Mrs. Steinberg
Victoria Fodor    Mrs. Milner
Marie Ward    Mrs. Hildebrandt
Mark Steger    Harold the Scarecrow/Pale Lady
Javier Botet    The Toe Corpse
Troy James    Jangly Man
Kyle Labine    Deputy Hobbs
David Tompa    Doctor
Karen Glave    Claire Baptiste
Stephanie Belding    Reception Nurse
Hume Baugh    Deodat Bellows
Jane Moffat    Delanie Bellows
Will Carr    Ephraim Bellows
Amanda Smith    Gertrude Bellows
Brandon Knox    Harold Bellows
Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll    Drive-In Manager
Anna Fraser    Actress
Alex Spencer    Orderly #1
Matt Smith    Mr. Steinberg
Colton Gobbo    Letterman #1
Daniel Gravelle    Letterman #2
Ajanae Stephenson    Lou Lou (8 yrs)

For a description of the different acting role types we use to categorize acting perfomances, see our Glossary.

Production and Technical Credits

André Øvredal    Director
Guillermo del Toro    Screenwriter
Dan Hageman    Screenwriter
Kevin Hageman    Screenwriter
Patrick Melton    Screenwriter
Marcus Dunstan    Screenwriter
Alvin Schwartz    Story based on the book series by
Sean Daniel    Producer
Elizabeth Grave    Producer
Guillermo del Toro    Producer
Jason F. Brown    Producer
J. Miles Dale    Producer
Roman Osin    Director of Photography
David Brisbin    Production Designer
Patrick Larsgaard    Editor
Ruth Myers    Costume Designer
Marco Beltrami    Composer
Anna Drubich    Composer
Regina Robb    Production Manager
J. Miles Dale    Unit Production Manager
Myron Hoffert    First Assistant Director
Tyler Deben    Second Assistant Director
Zhitang Chen    Co-Executive Producer
Jacky Cheung    Co-Executive Producer
Darren McGuire    Stunt Coordinator
Brandt Gordon    Art Director
Sorin Popescu    Set Designer
Etienne Gravrand    Set Designer
Patricia Larman    Set Decorator
Jane Flanders    Costume Supervisor
Charlotte Robertson    Sets Supervisor
Colin Penman    Make up
Trason Fernandes    Make up
Cliona Furey    Hairstylist
Jacqueline Robertson-Cull    Hairstylist
Dug Rotstein    Script Supervisor
Greg Chapman    Sound Mixer
Erika Schengili-Roberts    Sound Mixer
Glen Gauthier    Sound Mixer
Vince Nyuli    Location Manager
Douglas Wilkinson    Post-Production Supervisor
J.R. Fountain    Supervising Sound Editor
Jill Purdy    Supervising Sound Editor
Joe Dzuban    Sound Designer
Tyler Whitham    Sound Editor
Steve Medeiros    Sound Editor
Andrew Tay    Re-recording Mixer
Michael Woroniuk    Re-recording Mixer
Geoff Hill    Special Effects Coordinator
Chris McGeary    Music Editor
Kevin Banks    Music Editor
Matt Glover    Visual Effects Supervisor
Greg Sigurdson    Visual Effects Producer
Kevin Scott    Animation Supervisor
Jason Edwardh    Animation Supervisor
Rich Delia    Casting Director

The bold credits above the line are the "above-the-line" credits, the other the "below-the-line" credits.