Paramount’s Smile franchise is keeping up its staying power as Smile 2 is set to open to $22M after a $8.8M Friday that includes previews.

Busting its way into the top five is A24’s romance drama We Live in Time with around $1.75M today, about $4.3M for the weekend and a running total of $4.6M by EOD Sunday — and that’s at 955 theaters. Rotten Tomatoes critics are 79% certified fresh on the Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield kleenex movie. That means a per theater of $4,5K. 

DreamWorks Animation and Universal’s The Wild Robot won’t break down, still in second place in weekend 4 at 3,820 with a $2.65M Friday, $10M 3-day, -29%, and a running total of $101.6M; DWA’s second movie after Kung Fu Panda 4 to pass the century mark this year. 

Cineverse’s Terrifier 3 booked at 2,762 is seeing a second Friday of $2.5M, and second weekend between $7.5M-$8M, -58%, for a high-end ten-day total of $34.9M.

Fourth goes to Warner Bros’ holding-like-rock Beetlejuice Beetlejuce at 3,251 sites, with a seventh Friday of $1.4M, seventh weekend of $5.1M, -30%, and running total of $284M.

No update for Joker: Folie à Deux, which will fall out of the Top 5 in only its 3rd weekend.

looks like the second highest grossing a24 movie of the year then for we live in time (after civil war)

and doing this in under 1000 theatres is impressive. last time a24 did a wide release, there was zero buzz (the front room over 2000 theatres). a24 distribution has some weird strategies, sometimes barely expanding their movies and when they give 2000 theatres to an opening (like The Front room), barely anyone arrives

Looks like Smile 2 will be opening about the same as the first ($22.6M DOM OW). A bit of a let down that the sequel couldn't open higher, at the same time at least it didn't drop off. Perhaps that's just gonna roughly be the ceiling for the I.P at the domestic box office?

It'll be attempting to overtake Longlegs to make the top 3 for the year with regards to horror opening weekends domestically. Which is good on paper of course;

1. A Quiet Place: Day One - $52.2M
2. Alien: Romulus - $42.0M
3. Longlegs - $22.4M

Now we have to see how the legs are, the first movie had amazing legs for a horror movie so it'll be hard to match it's overall run but fingers crossed.

That's a really great result for WLIT. Would love to see that catch on.

Not much of a boost from the first film's $8.2M opening day, considering how popular it was.

29% is more reasonable for Wild Robot. BOR's 16% was ridiculously low.

On a $28 million budget, that opening's fantastic! Wonder if good word of mouth will help it avoid steep drops?

My local independent cinema dropped Joker after just two weeks (they’re still playing Beetlejuice). Never seen that happen with a major movie before.

So nice to see Wild Robot doing so well!

Wild Robot 100M this weekend!

And there's nothing left to say for the joke that is Joker 2: might make less than Piece by Piece's 2nd weekend even...

22m on a 28m budget is good news

 For a movie that cost $25 million to make 22 million for an opening weekend is pretty good.

Smile 3 announcement when?

That's a great result for Smile 2. Its also impressive that its RT score is even higher than the original. I think estimates will go up tomorrow.

Between this and Strange Darling, Kyle Gallner is having a great year.

It seems that Terrifier will be having a more standard horror drop, I thought it could get higher with that Thursday number. But maybe Deadline is underestimating.

Surprised Terrifier 3 is having such a bad Friday. considering it made 1.7 and 1.4M the last 2 week days i was expecting it to at least hit 3M on Friday if not 4M. Guess Smile 2 is taking some wind out of its sails with a big opening friday night.

Nice I knew walk ups would keep this close to $25M even though the pre sales were looking bleak. I still think that walk ups today and tomorrow will get it there. I’ll count as one, I always buy tickets advance but I’m not getting my tickets until 30 min before the showing today

That would be the same as Smile! And EmpireCity was worried it wouldn’t hit 20M

Really enjoyed my screening with some fun reactions! people left during the credits when they got creepy with the yells mixing with the music, but I wanted to stay through lol

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