‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ Looking At $50M Second Weekend
FRIDAY EARLY AFTERNOON: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is holding better than expected with a $50M second weekend after $14M second Friday, -55% at 4,575 locations. This is still the second-best second weekend in September, behind It’s second frame at $60.1M. Running total by Sunday is $186.4M.
Blumhouse/Universal’s Speak No Evil is also looking better than forecast with $12.5M for Friday-Sunday at 3,375 theaters for a $5M Friday that includes last night’s $1.3M previews.
Marvel Studios/Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine won’t leave the top 5, staying in third, with $5M at 3,075 theaters in weekend 8, -29%, for a running total of $621.3M by Sunday.
The Matt Walsh right-wing documentary Am i Racist? booked at 1,517 sites is seeing a Friday estimated at $1.6M, 3-day around $4M. When it comes to the best openings of wide release documentaries over the last ten years, Angel Studios’ After Death from last year tops the list at $5M.
Lionsgate
Lionsgate’s Dave Baustista movie, The Killer’s Game, which is a distribution deal for the company on the less than $30M production, is seeing a Friday take of $1M-$1.5M (including $300K Thursday previews) for a 3-day in the range of $2.5M-$4M, which would get it to fifth place on the higher end.
The Friday AM program is
Speak no Evil, which will be shown this weekend. Directed, written and produced by James Watkins the movie made $1.3M from Thursday previews that began at 2 p.m. The Universal-distributed R-rated title is expected to do around $10M off good reviews at 87% certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. The audience score is 86%.
The pic starring James McAvoy, Scoot McNairy and Mackenzie Davis follows a family who gets invited to spend a whole weekend in a lonely home in the countryside, but as the weekend progresses, they realize that the family who invited them has a dark side.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjzxI6uf8H8
Meanwhile, Warner Bros.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
$4.5M at 4,575 theaters Thursday, ending its first week at $136.4M. This pic is 14% behind 2017’s It. It was also a Warner Bros film under the New Line label and did $158.7M. It ended up at $327.4M. The Tim Burton-directed sequel is expected to do around $40M+ in Weekend 2, which will be the second-best weekend at the September domestic box office.
Lionsgate has the R-rated Dave Bautista action comedy The Killer’s Game, which grossed
$300k from Thursday night’s preview shows. The film will be released in 2,623 theaters on Friday. The critics don’t find the film funny at 36%. Directed by J.J. Perry off a screenplay by Rand Ravich and James Coyne, the pic is expected to file around $5M.RELATED: Dave Bautista Addresses Health Concerns Over Weight Loss Following “Uncomfortably Big” Weight Gain For ‘Knock At The Cabin’
The right-wing political commentary Matt Walsh’s documentary Am i Racist? will also debut this weekend on around 1,500 websites.
In other news on Thursday,
Deadpool & Wolverine in 3,400 sites ends Week 7 with $9.4M
after a $558K Thursday, -7% from Wednesday for a running total of $616.3M.“Naaaanccy….”. Dennis Quaid as Ronald Reagan
Showbiz Direct
Showbiz Direct’s Reagan
is doing fantastic ending its second week with a running total of $20.3M
— that’s more than the domestic run of Lionsgate’s Borderlands ($15.4M), and it’s about to fly past Apple/Sony’s Fly Me to the Moon ($20.5M). You can’t really compare the movies based on their demographics, but you get an idea how a small distributor could compete with larger studios and bigger fish. Thursday was $475K, -13%, with Week 2 finaling at $7M.
The Vance Null-directed drama God’s Not Dead: In God We Trust received a Fathom release Thursday night, making $365K
at 1,392 theaters. The blurb reads: Reverend David Hill, played by David A.R. White) runs for Congress. The opponent, Peter Kane (Ray Wise), aims to remove religion from public policy. This fight is a beacon for those seeking moral leadership in an increasingly divided world.
20th Century Studios’ Aliens: Romulus, at 2,560, did $1001010$5.6M in Week 4. After a $352K on Thursday, -16%, the running $98.9M is about to reach the 100-mark this weekend.
