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Box office: Smile franchise holds steady, Wild Robot hits new milestone
Also: Terrifier 3 sets a new record, Joker 2 hits a new low, and Deadpool & Wolverine inches past Barbie on the all-time North American chart.
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Peter T Chattaway
Box office: Two killer clown movies meet very different fates, while animated movies pick up the slack in a slow week
Terrifier 3 set a very good record for its franchise, Joker 2 set a very bad record for movies in general, and animation of all sorts took up half the…
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Peter T Chattaway
Box office: Joker 2 has the worst debut of any major Batman or Joker movie
Also: White Bird, a sort of sequel to 2017's Wonder, had the worst opening weekend of any non-documentary released under the "faith-based" Kingdom Story…
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Box office: The Wild Robot has one of the best non-franchise debuts of the decade
The well-reviewed adaptation of Peter Brown's novel had the best first weekend of any post-Covid animated film that wasn't a sequel, a spin-off, or…
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Peter T Chattaway
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…
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Peter T Chattaway
Box office: Four religious and/or politically conservative films land in the top ten
The political doc Am I Racist? and the latest God's Not Dead sequel join holdovers Reagan and The Forge in this week's list.
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Peter T Chattaway
Box office: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is Tim Burton's first bona fide hit in years
Also: Reagan and The Forge had the best holds in the top ten.
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Peter T Chattaway
Box office: Reagan the top new film in a slow Labour Day weekend
Also: Deadpool & Wolverine and Inside Out 2 hit new milestones, and The Forge has one of the best holds of any "faith-based" film this decade.
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Peter T Chattaway
Box office: The Forge can't quite revive the ailing "faith-based" genre
The Forge had one of the stronger openings of any "faith-based" film this decade, but also one of the weakest openings of any film by the Kendrick…
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Peter T Chattaway
Box office: Alien: Romulus is a late-summer success, albeit a qualified one
Dollar-wise, it had the 2nd-biggest opening in the 45-year-old franchise's history. But in terms of the number of tickets sold, it had one of the…
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Peter T Chattaway
Box office: It Ends with Us nearly topples Deadpool & Wolverine
If the estimates hold, this will be the first time ever that two films grossed over $50 million on the same weekend in August. And they both feature…
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Peter T Chattaway
Box office: Deadpool & Wolverine breaks another R-rated record
The superhero action comedy passed The Passion of the Christ this week to become the biggest R-rated movie in North America before adjusting for…
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