The running stateside total is$188Mwith global at $264.3M.
This movie in its essence feels arthouse with its UK countryside setting and dialogue-driven quiet thriller narrative.
For a movie like this, based on the 2022 Danish horror sensationGsterne, thats pretty impressive.
Michael Keaton as BeetlejuiceWarner Bros.
CinemaScore is a B+, which is very high for a genre movie.
Mostly female here for the R-rated movie at 51%, and 38% of the audience over 35.
The pic earned an A+ with men under 18 and women under 25.
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However, the top grossing areas were the South, Midwest and Mountain regions.
Daily Wire also purchased the domain Project2025.com and used it to market the documentary.
Project2025 is one of the major concerns/talking points for Democrats.
Walsh distributed literature driving DNC attendees to the site to learn more.
Lemon has since deleted the post, presumably after realizing he had been trolled.
What can we say?
Note, the trailer for Dinesh DSouzasVindicating Trumpis playing ahead of the Walsh docu.
@MattWalshBlog’s “Am I Racist?”
Whats going on here?
Lionsgate sought to make this long-gestating project a directorial reality for theirJohn Wickstuntman J.J. Perry.
How does that pencil out?
The question is whether that was enough to launch the movie.
I understand some close to the film wanted a different release date, i.e.
Conversation per the social media analytics firm is running mixed with chatter thats leery of aJohn Wickclone…
This is nothing new this 100% copy cat ofJohn Wick.'
How can they withstand it or yield great results?
Is Lionsgate just cleaning their slate to get to the good stuff in 2025, i.e.Michaelat Easter?
They do not have a tentpole like last NovembersHunger Games.
If they keep underdelivering, then it will become harder for them to book bigger auditoriums with exhibition.
That is unless they have a few big tentpoles they can hold over exhibitions head.
Next weekend expands to 32 theaters in ten markets followed by a wider break the following weekend.
The Megan Park directed, Aubrey Plaza starring, LuckyChap produced indie had solid numbers across the board.
Thats still the second best second weekend of September behindItssecond frame of $60.1M.
Running total by Sunday is$186.4M.
Note this project was in development for 20 years, an adaptation of Jay Bonansingas novel.
There were several filmmakers courted for the pic including John Woo, Wolfgang Petersen, Alex Proyas and more.
Paramount took over the project with Andrew Lazar producing and Michael Keaton kicking the tires to headline.
Two years ago stuntman-turned-filmmaker J.J. Perry approached Lionsgate to help find a way through with it.
Audience score stands at 86%.
Lionsgate has the R-rated Dave Bautista action comedyThe Killers Game,which grossed$300kfrom Thursday nights preview shows.
The film opens Friday in 2,623 locations.
Critics dont have a sense of humor about the pic at 36% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Thursday was $475K, -13%, with Week 2 finaling at$7M.
Blurb: Amid political and spiritual turmoil, Reverend David Hill (David A.R.
White) steps up to run for Congress.
