Box Office: 'Beetlejuice' Beats 'Speak No Evil', 'Killer's Game' Bombs at No. 1

Tim Burton and Warner Bros.' Beetlejuice Beetlejuice It lost any of its horror mojo in its second weekend and easily topped the box office charts with an estimated $51.6 million as it raced toward the $200 million mark domestically.

The film, which played domestically in 4,575 theaters, 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 worldwide total of $76.3 million and $264.3 million.

The new horror-thriller from Blumhouse and Universal Say no evil It was also good news for the early fall box office. The film opened in second place with an estimated $11.5 million from 3,375 locations against a budget of just $15 million before marketing. The movie follows an American family as they spend the weekend at a luxurious British estate only to discover that their host, played by James McAvoy, has a rather sinister side. McAvoy is earning strong marks for his performance.

Say no evil Boasting an 85 percent critic score on Rotten Tomatoes and a B+ CinemaScore from audiences. Overseas, it opened with $9.3 million from 73 markets for a worldwide launch of $20.8 million.

Marvel and Disney Deadpool and Wolverine It held at No. 3 for an eighth weekend, with an estimated $5.2 million for an estimated $621.5 million and $1.305 billion domestic gross, the seventh-biggest showing of any MCU title.

The biggest surprise of the weekend, conservative provocateur Matt Walsh Am I racist? It opened in fourth place with an estimated $4.8 million from 1,517 locations, making it the top debut of 2024 for a doc so far and the third biggest behind Disney's Nature film. the bear A decade ago. Am I racist? Doing big business in conservative markets in the South, Midwest and Mountain States.

The Justin Folk-directed film, described as a “social experiment”, comes from a picture by Ben Shapiro and Jeremy Boring. Daily Wire and marks the company's first theatrical release for an in-house production with distribution handled by SDG Releasing.

In the picture with which the comparison is drawn Borat In terms of its strategy, Walsh strategizes his subjects by adopting the role of a DEI trainee who attends anti-racism workshops, crashes private intellectual dinner parties, and conducts sit-down interviews with experts on racism and everyday Americans alike. The film also reveals the fees paid to some experts, including writer Robin DeAngelo White fragility: Why it's so hard for white people to talk about racism. In recent days, DeAngelo blasted Walsh and said he donated his $15,000 fee to the NAACP's legal defense fund.

Walsh Posted on Saturday X (formerly Twitter). That while the film boasts a 99 percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, no “mainstream film critic” has reviewed the film. X owner Elon Musk gave a shout out Am I racist? when Walsh is retweeting: “That's an amazing audience score!”

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

The big casualty of the weekend was Lionsgate's new action film The Killer GameDave Bautista stars as a veteran hitman who orders a contract to kill himself after being wrongly diagnosed with a terminal condition. The R-rated movie came in sixth with $2.6 million from 2,623 theaters after earning a B+ CinemaScore from weak reviews and audiences.

Fathom Events also made the top ten God is not dead: in God we believewhich grossed $1.8 million from 1,312 locations. And the latest release from the distributor of cult classics Coraline The run to celebrate the 15th anniversary has now raised $33.4 million.

Special box office, critically acclaimed Sundance Film Festival favorite my old ass Seven theaters in New York, Los Angeles and Austin, Texas reported a committed average of $24,535 after opening in promising numbers. From Amazon and MGM, the coming-of-age story revolves around an 18-year-old who meets his older self. Aubrey Plaza and newcomer Maisy Stella star in writer-director Megan Park's second feature, which will expand to a total of 32 theaters in 10 markets.

September 15, 7:45 am: Updated with revised weekend estimates.

This story was originally published on September 14 at 10:05 am.