Tim Burton and Warner Bros. Beetle Juice Beetle Juice loses none of its spooky charm in its second weekend and will easily remain atop the box office charts with $52 million or more as it races toward the $200 million mark domestically.
The film, currently playing in 4,575 theaters in the United States, could suffer a drop of as little as 51%.
The new horror-thriller from Blumhouse and Universal Don't speak badly It’s also good news for the box office. The film, which came in at number two, is on track to open with a better-than-expected $12.3 million from 3,375 theaters against a budget of just $15 million before marketing. The film follows an American family who spends the weekend at a luxurious British estate only to discover that their host, played by James McAvoy, has a rather sinister side. McAvoy is getting good marks for his performance.
Don't speak badly boasts an 85 percent score from critics on Rotten Tomatoes and a B+ from audiences on CinemaScore.
Deadpool and Wolverine holds onto third place for its eighth weekend with an estimated $5.4 million, followed by the new documentary Am I racist?
With conservative provocateur Matt Walsh, Am I racist? is on track to gross a respectable $4.5-5 million from 1,517 theaters, the best debut of 2024 so far for a documentary and one of the best domestic launches in a decade.
The Justin Folk-directed film, described as a “social experiment,” hails from Daily Wire and Digital Astronaut and marks the company’s first theatrical outing for an in-house production with distribution handled by SDG Releasing. In the film, Walsh plays a DEI intern who attends anti-racism workshops, crashes private intellectual dinners, and conducts sit-down interviews with experts and everyday Americans on the topic of racism. (One such expert is author Robin DiAngelo, who has written White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism.)
Am I racist? is doing big business in conservative markets in the South, Midwest and mountain states.
Biographical about Ronald Reagan Reaganstarring Dennis Quaid, is on track to place fifth in its third weekend, with an estimated $3 million or more from 2,450 theaters, for a domestic total of $23 million through Sunday.
The big casualty of the weekend is the new action film from Lionsgate The Assassin's Gamestarring Dave Bautista as a veteran hitman who orders a contract to kill himself after being mistakenly diagnosed with a terminal illness. The R-rated film is only expected to open in the $2.6 million-$3 million range after receiving poor reviews and a B+ CinemaScore from audiences.
At the box office special, the Sundance Film Festival favorite, acclaimed by critics My old ass is opening to promising numbers in seven theaters in New York, Los Angeles, and Austin, Texas. From Amazon and MGM, the coming-of-age story centers on an 18-year-old who meets her older self. Aubrey Plaza and newcomer Maisy Stella star in writer-director Megan Park’s second feature.
Weekend numbers will be updated on Sunday.