'Terrifier 3' Wins a Weekend of Box-Office Carnage
by EG
The ultra-violent gore sequel Terrifier 3 ripped its way to the top of the box-office charts this weekend. It wasn't a difficult win for the movie, which took in only $18 million, given that its competition crashed and burned spectacularly. Hold-over musical sequel Joker: Folie a Deux had one of the biggest second-weekend plummets in history after its already dispappointing debut last week, and Donald Trump bio pic The Apprentice failed to attract an audience, barely cracking the top ten. Read on for details.
Terrifier 3 isn’t clowning around. The slasher pic is easily winning a weekend of curiosity and carnage at the domestic box office, where Joker: Folie à Deux is suffering the worst decline in history for a comic book movie and one of the biggest among any film.
Cineverse and Icon Events’ Terrifier threequel opened ahead of expectations for Chris McGurk’s new venture with an estimated $18.2 million from 1,988 theaters.
The next closest film is The Wild Robot, which continues to shine for DreamWorks Animation and Universal. Now in its third weekend, the family pic is on course to earn another $13.4 million from 3,854 cinemas for a domestic cume of $83.7 million. It also pulled in another $24 million overseas for a global haul of $148.5 million.
Todd Phillips’ Joker sequel is falling off a cliff in its second weekend with an estimate just north of $7 million from 4,102 theaters, a historic decline of 81 percent. Until now, The Marvels held the record among comic book movies for the worst second-weekend decline at 78 percent. Joker 2‘s fall is also nearly the worst drop in history for a film opening in more than 2,000 locations.
Rival studios show Joker 2 coming in closer to $6.7 million to $6.8 million, meaning it will come in fourth behind fellow Warners holdover Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which continues to flex its theatrical muscles even though it’s now available in the home on premium VOD. The Tim Burton-directed sequel is estimated to gross $7.050 million from 2,408 locations as it crosses the $275 million mark domestically in its sixth weekend (Warners has Joker at $7.055 million for the weekend domestically).
Overseas, Folie à Deux also fell off steeply, earning $22.7 million from 77 markets for a foreign total of $113.7 million and $165.3 million globally.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, conversely, is a huge win for the studio, and has zoomed past the $400 million mark globally to finish Sunday with $420.3 million in ticket sales. Its foreign tally is $144.7 million.
While Terrifier 3 did decent business, a slew of other new nationwide openers — including high-profile awards contenders — struggled to find an audience.
Briarcliff’s Donald Trump movie The Apprentice — which Trump tried to block from ever appearing in cinemas — opened to an estimated $1.6 million range from 1,740 locations, just enough to crack the top 10. There’s always a chance it could switch places with holdover Speak No Evil, which earned just north of $1.5 million (the final order will be determined Monday). Prerelease tracking showed the anti-Trump pic opening in the $3 million range.
Get the rest of the story at The Hollywood Reporter.