Battle at the Box Office 10/7/24
Joker: Folie à Deux took the top spot at the box office this past weekend, but it’s nowhere close to what Warner Bros. was hoping it would be.
Joker: Folie à Deux opened with $37.8 million, astronomically below the $96.2 million that Joker opened with back in 2019. That first movie made over $1 billion worldwide off a budget of $55 million. Joker: Folie à Deux‘s budget was a bloated $200 million, the same as Matt Reeves The Batman, and it will most likely cost WB Discovery millions. Worldwide, Joker: Folie à Deux has collected $118.9 million. The movie got a D Cinemascore, so word of mouth will most likely be atrocious, and the movie will probably quickly slide out of the top 10 and out of theaters.
The Wild Robot dropped to second place with $18.8 million, about 47% down from last week’s opening. For two weeks, it has $64.1 million domestically and just over $100 million worldwide.
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, whose success has probably been wiped out in a single weekend by Joker: Folie à Deux, was in third place with $10.1 million. It now has $265.3 million domestically and $402.4 million worldwide.
Transformers One and Speak No Evil rounded out the top five, with Transformers One earning just shy of $100 million worldwide and Speak No Evil earning $67.3 million worldwide.
Megalopolis, last week’s box office disaster, fell 74% from its opening, dropping to ninth place with just over $1 million. Any curious cinemaphiles or bad movie aficionados went last week, and no regular audience is interested in what is happening in Francis Ford Coppola’s Emersonian mind.
White Bird: A Wonder Story was also kind of a disaster, although not to the scale of Joker: Folie à Deux. The movie, a follow-up/spin-off of Wonder from 2017, only made $1.5 million in 1,018 theaters. Wonder opened to $27.5 million but was in over 3,000 theaters. White Bird has also been delayed for years thanks to the COVID pandemic and the strikes from last year.
The Substance moved into the top 10, going from 11th last weekend to eighth this weekend with $1.3 million from 689 theaters.
The per-theater average went to Saturday Night, which expanded slightly in limited release before this coming weekend’s wide rollout. The movie made $12,952 in each of the 21 theaters it played in over the weekend.
