A boring week at the box office, as Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice retained the top spot in its second weekend at the box office. A fall of just 54% in week two, adding another $52 million to its impressive take.
The domestic total is $189 million, but overseas audiences simply aren’t feeling the Beetlejuice vibe. It seems to be a curiously US-centric phenomenon and outside the US it hasn’t even broken the $80 million mark yet from every single other country on the planet.
Speak No Evil came in second with $11.5 million domestically and $9.3 million overseas on a positively economical $15 million budget.
Marvel’s Deadpool & Wolverine refuses to go quietly, even as a rumored PVOD release date of Tuesday, October 1, 2024 comes into view. It came in at No. 3 in its eighth weekend with over $5 million domestic. The total global haul is now $1.305 billion.
One big surprise was Matt Walsh’s Am I Racist? beating all projections. The Daily Wire production came in 4th place with $4.8 million and was particularly strong in the South, Midwest and Mountain States.
Meanwhile Dennis Quaid’s Reagan biopic scored $3 million in its third weekend to grab 5th.
On the not-so-happy path this week was the Dave Bautista-led action film The Killer’s Game which made just $2.6 million. Then there was Borderlands, which cemented its reputation as a gigantic flop – earning back just $21 million of its $110 million budget – being pulled from theaters and dumped on streaming.