Battle at the Box Office 9/23/24
After a close race, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice managed to remain at the top of the box office for a third week, with Transformers One making a weak debut in second place.
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice took in another $25.9 million, taking its domestic total to $226.7 million. Worldwide, it has $331.1 and is widely driven by the domestic marketplace. It is now Tim Burton’s third-highest-grossing film domestically and his sixth-highest-grossing film worldwide.
Transformers One disappointed in its opening weekend, making $24.6 million when it was expected to make at least $30 million and top Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. The movie is the third worst opening in the Transformers franchise, only topping Bumblebee and The Transformers: The Movie. It’s also significantly lower than the opening of the last live-action entry in the franchise, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, which made $61 million in its opening weekend. It did get an A Cinemascore, so it could be a slow burn as families gradually see it over the next few weeks or it could nosedive, we’ll have to see how it does this coming weekend.
Speak No Evil dropped to third place with another $5.7 million, for a total of $21.3 million domestically.
Never Let Go opened in fourth place with $4.4 million. It’s another weak opening from Lionsgate, which has been seeing bomb after bomb hit theaters recently, starting with the mega-disaster of Borderlands. For Halle Berry, this opening sits between Cloud Atlas and The Rich Man’s Wife, but at least on streaming, she’s doing OK, with The Union being one of the most watched movies of the year on Netflix.
Deadpool & Wolverine took fifth place, staying in the top 5 in its ninth weekend of release. It now has $627.2 million domestically and $1.316 billion worldwide.
The Substance opened in sixth place, playing in 1,949 theaters. It made $3.2 million and got a surprisingly high B rating from Cinemascore, which, given the wildly disparate reactions from critics and film festival screenings, made it seem like it would be getting a much lower grade. That may bode well for word of mouth, and talk of a potential dark horse Oscar nomination for Demi Moore may also help it have legs.
A Different Man took the Per Theater average, making $14,032 in each of the four theaters it played in over the weekend.
