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Box office: Transformers One is... not number one

Box office: Transformers One is... not number one

Despite getting some of the best critical buzz in the franchise's history, this animated origin story couldn't take the top spot from Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

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Sep 23, 2024
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'Transformers One'
Orion Pax (Chris Hemsworth) looks deep into a hologram, in Transformers One.

A few of this week’s highlights:

  • Transformers One had some of the best reviews in the franchise’s history… and one of the worst opening weekends.

  • Never Let Go was the fourth flop in two months for Lionsgate.

  • The Substance, the first major theatrical release from Mubi, had one of the lowest openings of any wide release distributed by a streaming service.

And now, a few more stats and facts re: this week’s top ten, title by title:

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