Beetlejuice Beetlejuice couldn’t be scared away from the prime spot at the box office, proving to be certainly one of Tim Burton’s largest openings.

Even although summer time is formally out of the method, the box office was nonetheless one thing to control this weekend. Labor Day proved to have a fairly lackluster outing at the films however as we close to spooky season, we knew one film would assist bridge the hole between the seashores and the haunted homes.

After sturdy each day outings and main buzz, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice expectedly took the #1 spot this weekend, pulling in $110 million and marking not solely the third-best opening weekend of the yr however certainly one of Tim Burton’s largest box office openings ever, trailing solely Alice in Wonderland. For the report, 1988’s Beetlejuice took in $8 million on its opening weekend. Even when adjusted for inflation, the sequel pulled in additional than 5 instances that over the course of only one weekend.

Since all of us just about knew that Beetlejuice Beetlejuice can be the ghost with the most at the box office this weekend, it grew to become a bit extra enjoyable making an attempt to determine how the remainder of the prime 10 would pad out. So, let’s have a look…

The second-highest-grossing film of the yr, Deadpool & Wolverine, continues to be holding remarkably sturdy at the box office, with the MCU entry taking in a further $7.2 million at the #2 spot, additional securing it as the largest cash maker of any R-rated movie, with over $1.27 billion worldwide thus far. Coming in at #3 is a film of a very totally different tone: biopic Reagan, which bumped up a spot from final week through one other $5.2 million. Rounding out the prime 5 this week have been Alien: Romulus, which is crawling in direction of the $100 million home mark courtesy of one other $3.9 million, and It Ends With Us, the Colleen Hoover adaptation which took in practically as a lot this weekend and has finished fairly properly regardless of some behind-the-scenes controversy. 

The backside half of the prime 10 at the box office was led by The Forge, which made $2.9 million, simply sufficient to beat Twisters, which has but to fall from the prime 10 though it has been eight weeks. The solely different film to interrupt the measly $2 million mark this week was Blink Twice, which made $2.1 million and got here in at #8. Despicable Me 4 additionally held on, though its $1.8 million received’t do something to get it close to the $1 billion worldwide mark, which is formally out of attain. Coming in at #10 was A24’s The Front Room, which took in simply $1.6 million on greater than 2,000 screens, with audiences clearly disinterested in Brandy main a horror film in 2024 (though we are going to all the time dig her in I Still Know What You Did Last Summer).

Next week will see a handful of latest releases, together with the American remake of Danish thriller Speak No Evil, the Dave Bautista-headed actioner The Killer’s Game, Sundance hit My Old Ass, and Kevin Smith’s The 4:30 Movie. These will most likely have pretty calm outings at the box office as we await the noise of Transformers One, with the Demi Moore sensation The Substance and Clooney-Pitt pairing Wolfs additionally popping out on September twentieth, though you’ll be able to count on the latter to undergo as a result of it heads to Apple TV+ the following week.

Did you catch something at the cinema this weekend? Which film did you assist bump the box office numbers for?