Thursday, October 3, 2024

Box Office Doldrums Continue as “Beetlejuice 2” Will Be Only Hit This Weekend

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Labor Day has passed, and the box office is cold to the touch.

The only hit movie playing this weekend is “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.” The long awaited sequel to “Beetlejuice” has about $136 million in the bank. Another $15 million may come in over the weekend.

Otherwise the box office is dry and arid with tumbleweeds named “Reagan” and “It Ends with Us” blowing though the popcorn stands.

What are we waiting for? Next Thursday comes a new “Transformers” movie and Demi Moore in “The Substance.” The latter is a horror film with a great performance by Moore — her best work ever. It starts out like a social satire and ends up like something from Guillermo del Toro.

And on we trod…

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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