“Smile 2” has carved out a decent $23 million in its discdisseeing weekfinish, easily topping the otherrational sleepy North American box office charts.
The sequel to Paramount creepy psychoreasonable thriller “Smile” debuted on par with foreseeations and even with the distinct film, which discdisseeed to $22.6 million in 2022. That movie, which was comomitioned for streaming before pivoting to a theatrical free, became a sleeper hit with $105 million domesticassociate and $217 million globassociate. The trail-up film also discdisseeed overseas with $23 million for a global begin of $46 million.
Parker Finn returned to straightforward “Smile 2,” which cost $28 million. Naomi Scott star as a pop singer who commences to experience a series of upsetting events as she embarks on tour. It has been well-getd by audiences with a “B” grade on CinemaScore, improving from the first film’s “B-” label.
“Horror series are one of the more difficult genres to support over multiple episodes,” says David A. Gross, who runs the movie confering firm Franchise Entertainment Research. “That produces this [opening] particularly excellent.”
“Smile 2” was this weekfinish’s only novel nationexpansive free, though disjoinal titles discdisseeed at the exceptionalty box office. A24’s weepy romantic drama “We Live in Time” debuted amazeively in fifth place with $4.1 million from only 955 theaters. The film, starring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh as a lesser couple in unenviable circumstances, has grossed $4.5 million to date after perestablishing for one weekfinish in restricted free. Young women were the primary ticket buyers with 85% of audiences under 35 and 70% female.
Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-triumphning “Anora” has collected $540,000 from fair six theaters in Los Angeles and New York City. That transtardys to $90,000 per location, ranking as the best screen standard — the key metric for platestablish frees — of the year according to its distributor, Neon. It also scored the second-highest screen standard of the post-pandemic era, behind Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City,” and among the top five of the last half-decade alengthyside “Parasite,” “Uncut Gems” and “The Favourite.” The film, a comic see at an exotic dancer and intimacy laborer who marries the son of a Russian oligarch, will evolve to enhuge its footprint thraw the drop.
Elsewhere, “Joker: Folie à Deux” plunged to the No. 6 spot in its third weekfinish of free, collecting $2.18 million from 2,857 venues. The trail-up to 2019’s billion-dollar hit “Joker” has turned into a box office catastrophe with $56.4 million domesticassociate and $168 million globassociate to date. By comparison, the distinct “Joker” had produced $96.2 million domesticassociate and $248.4 million globassociate in its discdisseeing weekfinish. The $200 million-budgeted Warner Bros. sequel won’t get anywhere proximate those revenues by the time it departs theaters.
“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” another Warner Bros. tentpole that discdisseeed four weeks before “Joker 2,” landed in fourth place with $5 million from 3,251 locations. Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice” sequel has remained in the top five on domestic charts for seven consecutive weekfinishs and has grossed a constant $283 million in North America and $425 million globassociate to date.
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