"Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" Makes #1 at Weekend Box Office

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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Jolts Box Office with $110 Million Opening Weekend
by Kaitlyn Huamani
September 9, 2024


After 36 years of waiting, the juice is finally loose again in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, this time racking up $110 million in its premiere weekend.

The long-awaited Tim Burton sequel is the third-best opening weekend of the year, only behind box office triumphs Inside Out 2 and Deadpool & Wolverine.



Michael Keaton returns as the titular spirit and Catherine O’Hara and Winona Ryder also reprise their roles as Delia and Lydia Deetz, with newcomer Jenna Ortega playing the latter’s daughter, Astrid.

Willem Dafoe, Monica Bellucci and Justin Theroux round out the cast.





Deadpool & Wolverine placed second on the box office charts, making $7.2 million in its seventh weekend. Its cumulative domestic total is now $614 million.

Reagan, the Dennis Quaid-led biopic about the 40th U.S. president, continues to beat expectations. Climbing the ranks to third place in its second weekend, the film made $5.2 million.

Alien: Romulus and It Ends with Us, two more holdovers from the summer, came in fourth and fifth place, respectively. The sci-fi horror film brought in $3.9 million and the romance drama brought in $3.8 million.





The only other new release of the weekend to make it on the box office rankings was The Greatest of All Time, an Indian Tamil-language science fiction action film.

The movie stars Joseph Vijay and was directed by Venkat Prabhu, who is known for directing and writing other Indian action films. Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore.

https://apnews.com/article/box-offic...2de6339d6c5a57





September 6-8, 2024: Weekend Studio Estimates

1. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice $111,003,345
2. Deadpool & Wolverine $7,004,949 / $613,842,689
3. Reagan $4,829,440 / $18,129,480
4. Alien: Romulus $3,930,441 / $97,219,727
5. It Ends with Us $3,711,289 / $141,328,331
6. The Forge $3,001,570 / $20,823,264
7. Twisters $2,157,875 / $264,510,025
8. Blink Twice $2,066,185 / $20,243,161
9. Despicable Me 4 $1,846,200 / $357,918,005
10. The Front Room $1,663,954

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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Stays No. 1 as Speak No Evil Impresses and Killer’s Game Bombs
by Pamela McClintock
September 15, 2024


Tim Burton and Warner Bros.’ Beetlejuice Beetlejuice lost none of its ghostly mojo in its second weekend and easily stayed atop the box office chart with an estimated $51.6 million as it hurtles toward the $200 million mark domestically.

The pic, playing in 4,575 theaters domestically, fell just 54 percent for a 10-day domestic total of $188 million. Overseas, the sequel took in another $28.7 million from 76 markets for a lukewarm foreign tally of $76.3 million and $264.3 million globally.





Blumhouse and Universal’s new horror-thriller Speak No Evil was also good news for the early fall box office. The pic opened in second place with an estimated $11.5 million from 3,375 locations against a budget of just $15 million before marketing.

James McAvoy is earning strong marks for his performance and the film boasts an 85% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes and a B+ CinemaScore from audiences. Overseas, it started of with $9.3 million from 73 markets for a global launch of $20.8 million.





Marvel and Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine held at No. 3 all the way in its eighth weekend, with an estimated $5.2 million for a domestic cume of $621.5 million and $1.305 billion worldwide, the seventh-biggest showing of any MCU title.





In the biggest surprise of the weekend, conservative provocateur Matt Walsh‘s Am I Racist? opened in fourth place with an estimated $4.8 million from 1,517 locations, the top debut of 2024 so far for a doc and the third biggest since Disney’s nature film Bears a decade ago.

Am I Racist? is doing big business in conservative markets in the South, Midwest and Mountain States.





Ronald Reagan biopic Reagan, starring Dennis Quaid, rounded out the top five with $3 million from 2,450 cinemas in its third weekend for a domestic total of $23.3 million through Sunday.





The big casualty of the weekend was Lionsgate’s new action pic The Killer’s Game, starring Dave Bautista as a veteran hitman who orders a contract for his own murder after being mistakenly diagnosed with a terminal condition.

The R-rated movie came in sixth place with a dismal $2.6 million from 2,623 theaters after earning poor reviews and a B+ CinemaScore from audiences.





Fathom Events also made the top 10 with God’s Not Dead: In God We Trust, which grossed $1.8 million from 1,312 locations.

And the distributor’s latest rerelease of the cult classic Coraline has now amassed $33.4 million in its 15th anniversary celebratory run.





At the specialty box office, the critically acclaimed Sundance Film Festival favorite My Old Ass reported a promising per theater average of $24,535 upon opening in promising numbers in seven theaters in New York, Los Angeles and Austin, Texas.

From Amazon and MGM, the coming-of-age story revolves around an 18-year-old who meets her older self. Aubrey Plaza and newcomer Maisy Stella star in writer-director Megan Park’s second feature, which will expand into a total of 32 cinemas in 10 markets.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/mo...me-1236001769/





September 13-15, 2024: Weekend Studio Estimates

1. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice $51,600,000 / $188,006,079
2. Speak No Evil $11,500,000
3. Deadpool & Wolverine $5,200,000 / $621,495,644
4. Am I Racist? $4,750,000
5. Reagan $2,964,040 / $23,300,080
6. The Killer's Game $2,600,000
7. Alien: Romulus $2,400,000 / $101,276,041
8. It Ends with Us $2,025,000 / $144,878,052
9. The Forge $2,010,000 / $24,104,008
10. God's Not Dead: In God We Trust $1,827,000

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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice at $26M Dispels Transformers One from No. 1; Halle Berry & Demi Moore Genre Pics Come Up Short
by Anthony D'Alessandro
September 22, 2024


In an upset nobody saw coming, the third weekend of Warner Bros’ Beetlejuice Beetlejuice stole No. 1 away from Paramount and Hasbro Entertainment’s Transformers One, $26M to $25M.

In regard to Lionsgate’s Halle Berry‘s Never Let Go with a $4.5M opening, the numbers speak for themselves with a string of recent bombs for Lionsgate. Never Let Go is at the lower end of Berry’s box office openings, even lower than the Wachowskis’ disaster Cloud Atlas ($9.6M).

As far as The Substance goes, the exits on this movie (B CinemaScore and 89% certified Rotten Tomatoes critics) are surprising for a horror film that can be polarizing. It will be interesting to see who gets the higher gross in the end, The Substance or Never Let Go.

https://deadline.com/2024/09/box-off...go-1236095371/





September 20-22, 2024:

1. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice $26,000,000 / $226,848,382
2. Transformers One $25,000,000
3. Speak No Evil $5,900,000 / $21,454,590
4. Never Let Go $4,500,000
5. Deadpool & Wolverine $3,900,000 / $627,284,625
6. The Substance $3,100,000
7. Am I Racist? $2,536,000 / $9,007,507
8. Reagan $1,666,659 / $26,527,260
9. Jung Kook: I Am Still $2,574,318
10. Alien: Romulus $1,326,000 / $103,621,150

[Dude111]

I dunno Jimmy,I didnt really like that movie.......... (The first.... It was wierd)

I havent seen the others.....