'It' is a hit! The Stephen King horror flick shattered box office records

Horror movies don't usually land at the box office like this.
It, the New Line/Warner Bros. adaptation of Stephen King's classic novel, is expected to end its opening weekend with $117.2 million at the box office. That's a staggeringly huge figure for any movie to open with, and a basically impossible one — until now, apparently — for an R-rated horror movie.
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For context: Prior to It, the top opening week