Really? A "massive" bidding war for a tired old franchise like Halloween?
Seems like anyone would be better off to just make their own masked-killer film rather than tying themselves down to the Halloween canon/baggage.
I've read that this was the original concept for Friday the 13th, too. That they'd release an anthology of scary films regularly under the F13 banner, but they wouldn't necessarily be sequels or involve Jason/Crystal Lake. The date doesn't actually have much to do with the Jason films, it was...
I feel like the horror audience is a majority female. It seems like when I see demographic breakdowns for attendance at most horror films, it always skews toward female.