Battle at the Box Office 9/16/24
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice easily took the top spot at the box office for a second weekend, with Speak No Evil opening in second place.
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice brought in another $51.5 million, dropping 54% from last weekend’s massive opening. The movie now has $187.9 million domestically and $264.4 million worldwide. Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice seems to be in a similar position to Twisters earlier this year, where it’s doing gangbusters domestically but not really making any impact internationally. It’s now Tim Burton’s 4th biggest movie domestically and his 10th biggest worldwide.
See No Evil, the remake of the 2022 Danish film of the same name, opened with $11.5 million. That’s below Night Swim for 2024 Blumhouse releases but well ahead of Imaginary and Afraid. The movie got a B+ CinemaScore, which is actually incredibly good for a horror movie, as they are usually down more in the C range for scores. The film has $20.9 million worldwide.
Deadpool & Wolverine slipped another spot to third with another $5.2 million, taking it to $621.4 million domestically and $1.3 million worldwide. It has dropped behind Inside Out 2 for day-to-day grosses, so Inside Out 2 will most likely end the year as the highest-grossing film domestically and probably worldwide.
Am I Racist? and Reagan rounded out the top 5. Am I Racist? is a documentary starring Matt Walsh and distributed by The Daily Wire. It claims to expose the DEI or Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion hiring world. It got an A CinemaScore, so the conservative/far-right audience it was going for enjoyed it. Reagan has made $23.2 million domestically for three weeks out.
The Killer’s Game opened outside the top 6, which was another disappointment for Lionsgate after Borderlands and The Crow both bombed horribly. The Killer’s Game most likely cost significantly less than either of those movies, so it’s not quite the disaster those summer flops were, but it’s still not a great opening. For Dave Bautista, it’s the lowest wide opening of his film career, below Hotel Artemis.
A pair of faith-based movies rounded out the top 10, with The Forge making another $2 million, taking it to $24.1 million for four weeks out. God’s Not Dead: In God We Trust, the fifth movie in the God’s Not Dead “franchise” opened with $1.4 million, the lowest wide opening of the series.
My Old Ass took the Per Theater average with $24,535 in each of the seven theaters it played in.
