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Forty years after he first appeared in theaters, Michael Myers is still drawing huge audiences for a good scare. The studio also says it's the biggest movie opening ever with a female lead over 55, in star Jamie Lee Curtis. David Gordon Green directed "Halloween," which brings back Curtis as Laurie Strode and Nick Castle as Michael Myers and essentially ignores the events of the other sequels and spinoffs aside from John Carpenter's original. Reviews have been largely positive for the new installment, with an 80 percent fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a B+ Cinema Score from audiences that were mostly older (59 percent over 25) and male (53 percent). Internationally, "Halloween" earned $14.3 million from 23 markets. Blumhouse, the shop behind "Get Out" and numerous other modestly budgeted horror films, co-produced "Halloween." It cost only $10 million to make. "You take the nostalgia for 'Halloween,' especially