Box Office: ‘Candyman’ to Scare Up $20M-Plus Debut, ‘Free Guy’ Looks at No. 2 Spot
BY MIA GALUPPO | HollywoodReporter.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Entertainment The horror film from director Nia DaCosta and writer-producer Jordan Peele earned $9.1 million in Friday night ticket sales. As the delta variant continues to surge across much of the country — and after theNational Association of Theater Owners descended on Las Vegas for CinemaCon— the box office enters another weekend in uncertain times, but with a big debut. The only new wide release, R-rated horror Candyman, opens on roughly 3,400 screens in North America after it was delayed three times over the course of the COVID-19 shutdown. The movie, which was produced by…