Box-Office Weekend: Beetlejuice Bests Everyone

A new film sits atop the box-office weekend top ten as Beetlejuice Beetlejuice decimated the competition, claiming the crown by a margin of $102.8 million.

In its first weekend of release, the Warner Bros. product Beetlejuice Beetlejuice debuted in first place with $110.0 million over the course of its first few days in release. This was more than enough to push last weekend’s top film, Deadpool & Wolverine to second place where it earned $7.2 million in its seventh weekend of release, giving the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures offering an overall total of $614.0 million to date. Climbing one spot to finish in third this weekend was Reagan, which added $5.2 million over the last three days to lift its two-week tally to $18.5 million. Meanwhile, last weekend’s second-place film, Alien: Romulus fell two spots to a fourth-place finish where it added $3.9 million, to lift the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures product’s four-week total to $97.2 million. Sony Pictures Releasing’s It Ends with Us similarly dropped two spots this weekend to finish in fifth place with $3.8 million. This brings the film’s five-week total to $141.4 million.

In its third weekend of release, Affirm Films’ The Forge managed to climb a spot to claim sixth place this weekend with $2.9 million, raising the film’s overall total to $20.8 million. Universal Pictures, however, saw Twisters fall two places to finish in seventh this weekend where it brought in $2.3 million, giving the film an eight-week total of $264.6 million. After finishing in sixth place last weekend, Blink Twice also fell two spots to land in eighth-place this weekend where it added $2.1 million, to bring its overall total to $20.3 million. Only dropping one spot this weekend, Despicable Me 4 claimed ninth-place with $1.8 million, giving the Universal Pictures product a ten-week tally of $357.9 million. The second debut of the weekend, A24’s The Front Room claimed tenth place with $1.7 million taken in over its first three days in release.

Two films were pushed from the weekend box office over the last three days as last weekend’s ninth- and tenth-place entries both succumbed to new arrivals. After two weeks in release, Afraid leaves the top ten with $6.3 million taken in for Sony Pictures Releasing. Finally, after thirteen weeks, and amassing a total of $651.9 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, Inside Out 2 departs the top ten after finishing in the tenth spot last weekend.

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Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com

An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.

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