Smile 2 is laughing all the way to the top of the box office, but just like last week, the same can’t be said for Joker 2 which plummets to #6 in its third weekend.
Smile 2 at #1
Smile 2, the sequel to the 2022 horror movie brought in $23 million this past weekend domestically, giving it the #1 spot at the box office. Add another $23M from foreign grosses and the flick has already blew buy its reported $28M budget. The first one made over $217 million with a reported $17M budget. Cha-ching!
Smile 2 also has decent Rotten Tomatoes Scores for a horror flick, with 84% from the critics and 83% from the fans, an improvement on the first movie’s 80% and 77% scores. It’s also received a “B” CinemaScore, again, a good grade for horror.
We saw the same last week when Terrifer 3 destroyed Joker 2 bringing nearly $19 million on only a $2-5M budget. It’s October. It’s Halloween season. Fans are showing up for these low-budget, thrill-packed horror movies. They just want to be entertained. It definitely is Clown World.
The Wild Robot at #2
At #2 this weekend is The Wild Robot which is turning out to have good legs. The Wild Robot brought in another $10.1 million in its fourth weekend and is nearly at $200M worldwide. A sequel has already been greenlit.
Terrifier 3 at #3
Terrifier 3 comes in at #3 for its second weekend with a $9.307M gross, only a 50.8% drop. The worldwide box office is at $41.575M (again on only a $2M-$5M budget!).
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice at #4
At #4 is Beetlejuice 2 with a $5M gross; it’s closing on in $500M worldwide.
Before we get to Joker 2, A24’S Live in Time romance starring Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield comes in at #5 with $4.1M.
Joker 2 drops to #6
So Joker 2? In its third weekend it brought in only $2.18M, coming in at #6, another 68.9% decline from week two, which dropped a CBM record 81.4% from week one.
The Joker 2 domestic box office is currently at $56.4M; the foreign box office is at $135.5M, and the worldwide box office is at $191,942,948. Variety has reported Joker 2 will lose $150M-$200M.
To put things in perspective, in its third weekend, the first Joker made over $29 million and had a domestic box office of over $247 million. The first Joker finished with over $335M domestically, a massive $743.3M from foreign grosses, and a worldwide gross of over a billion dollars. Joker 2 will be on VOD next week, basically three weeks after its release.
Transformers One stalls
Rounding out the top ten at the box office this past weekend is at #8 the Transformers One animated movie which brought in $1.965M and has stalled with a current $119M worldwide gross.
At #9 is the Jason Reitman Saturday Night movie about the 1975 SNL cast with $1.8M in its weekend four.
At #10 is the The Nightmare Before Christmas re-release that brought in $1.129M in its second weekend.
