Moviegoers said yes to more Beetlejuice Beetlejuice this weekend. After its monster opening, the Tim Burton sequel easily topped the domestic box office charts again with $51.6 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. Down only 54% from a week earlier, the North American gross for the Warner Bros. release is already at $188 million. Internationally, it added $28.7 million, bringing its worldwide total to a staggering $264.3 million. While its hold was strong, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice didn't have much in the way of major new competition, the AP reports.
Fresh offerings included the James McAvoy horror Speak No Evil, a satirical documentary following right-wing podcaster Matt Walsh, and a Dave Bautista action pic, The Killer's Game. The Daily Wire movie Am I Racist? placed fourth at the box office. Described as a mockumentary in the style of Borat, the movie has Walsh going undercover as a "DEI trainee." Walsh had a similar gimmick, pretending to be a gender studies professor, in the 2022 movie What is a Woman? Next weekend, theaters will get the Optimus Prime origin pic Transformers One, but it may be a quiet few weeks until Joker: Folie à Deux opens on Oct. 4.
Below are estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at US and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, $51.6 million.
- Speak No Evil, $11.5 million.
- Deadpool & Wolverine, $5.2 million.
- Am I Racist?, $4.8 million.
- Reagan, $3 million.
- The Killer's Game, $2.6 million.
- Alien: Romulus, $2.4 million.
- It Ends With Us, $2 million.
- The Forge, $2 million.
- God's Not Dead: In God We Trust, $1.5 million.
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