‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ tops the box office for second week in a row

The sequel so nice they named it twice did a double take at the box office. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice spent its second week at No. 1 , taking in $51.6 million to bring its domestic cume to $188 million, as per Comscore.

Internationally, the Tim Burton film held strong, though not quite as strong, earning an additional $28.7 million, for an international cume of $76.3 million, bringing its global gross to $264.3 million.

Starring Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, and Michael Keaton reprising their roles from the 1988 classic, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice also introduces Jenna Ortega as Ryder’s daughter, Astrid, who ends up following in her mother’s gloomy footsteps.

After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice (Keaton) , Lydia’s (Ryder) life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic and the portal to the Afterlife is accidentally opened. 

“I would hope there’s that thing of wanting to keep the essence of the first one, but then imagine this whole life that’s happened,” Ryder told Entertainment Weekly. “I never thought about Lydia ever being a mom. I thought she would just be this spinster by choice in that attic, but I think that’s where the incredible Jenna Ortega comes in. She answered a ton of those questions, and it felt so right.”

Coming in at No. 2, the Blumhouse thriller Speak No Evil earned $11.5 million in its domestic debut and added $9.3 million from international markets for a global take of $20.8 million. Written and directed by James Watkins, based on the 2022 Danish film of the same name, Speak No Evil follows a family invited for a weekend at an idyllic country house–a dream holiday that warps into a snarled psychological nightmare.

“It’s a great film; it’s why we wanted to remake it,” star James McAvoy said of the 2022 original. “But I think it’s incumbent upon the adaptation to do something different from the original. You can’t just remake it.”

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Still holding onto the top 5, Deadpool & Wolverine grossed $5.2 million in its eighth week of release, bringing its domestic total to $621.5 million ($1.3 billion globally).

Daily Wire host and filmmaker Matt Walsh transforms himself into a certified diversity, equity, and inclusion expert, only to uncover a world where profit, not principle, drives the agenda in the documentary Am I Racist?. With a weekend gross of $4.8 million, the film has one of the top debuts for documentary film released in the past decade.

And in fifth place this weekend, the critically-derided biopic Reagan starring Dennis Quaid earned almost $3 million in its third week of release for a cume of $23.3 million.