Sunday, October 6, 2024

Box Office: Warner’s Says “Beetlejuice 2” Over Performs with $110 Mil Weekend, Audiences Mostly LA and Florida

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“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” certainly picked up steam on Friday.

After $41 million from Thursday previews and Friday showings, the weekend came in at $110 million according to Warner Bros.

It was a slow start, but I guess Saturday was family day.

Ironically “Beetlejuice 2” has just an 82 audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes. CInemascore is a B plus. For a breakthrough hit, that’s not so high. But still they’re coming to see Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder and friends revisit the Tim Burton hit from the late 1980s.

Curiously, almost all the top 10 markets were from LA and South Florida. New York had one theater in the top 10, Manhattan’s Lincoln Square at number 7.

Warner’s in encouraging people– especially kids — to dress up in their favorite “Beetlejuice” characters. I definitely want one of their popcorn buckets, although I’m not sure why. I have two from “Deadpool” rolling around in my car trunk as it is!

Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman began his Showbiz411 column in April 2009 after 10 years with Fox News, where he created the Fox411 column. His movie reviews are carried by Rotten Tomatoes, and he is a member of both the movie and TV branches of the Critics Choice Awards. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. He is also the writer and co-producer of "Only the Strong Survive," a selection of the Cannes, Sundance, and Telluride Film festivals, directed by DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus.

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