Borderlands has left the building after just 28 days in theaters and $15.482 million, It made more than half of that ($8.6 million) on its opening weekend. It finishes in 4,451th place all-time. Adjusted for inflation, that's 5,403rd place, behind such luminaires at Bratz, Delta Force 2, First Daughter, and Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2.

Huge second weekend for Beetlejuicex2 - $51.6 million to reach $188m domestic. Its international presence is almost non-existent, no surprise - at $36m.England and Mexico is its second- and third- leading country at $9.6 and $6.4m. It's not showing at all in China ,Japan, Germany, France, and many other places.

It's already up to the #16 comedy of all-time domestic, and could finish as high as second (without inflation). Home Alone currently holds that spot at $285m. Barbie is far and away #1 at $636m.

Speak No Evil debuts at #2 with $11.5m. I believe this is about Prof. X / Mr. Tumnus playing a crazy person, but not the crazy person from Split.

Deadpool & Wolverine shed 325 theaters but still pulled in $5.2 m for the weekend to reach $621.5m. It has surpassed The Last Jedi ($620m in 2017) for 15th all-time domestic and is less than $2m behind 2012's Avengers for 14th. It needs $10.5m to reach $1.3 bn worldwide, something only 21 films have done previously.

Alien: Romulus made $2.4m to breach $100m at $101.3m. It is the 15th movie to reach $100m in 2024. There were 24 movies to do that last year.

Inside Out 2 is down to just 700 theaters and still trails Jurassic World by more than $1 million for 10th all time domestic. Usually the movie studios get real shady at the end of a run and conjure up some sort of company events or screenings to get them over the hump to the next milestone - the most egregious being getting Black Panther to $700m. So watch for that. Inside Out 2 is about $300,000 away from passing JW globally.

Despicable Me 4 is into the top 65 domestic of all time at $359m, passing GOTG3.

Twisters is up to $265m and #133 all-time passing DM3 The Amazing Spiderman, and Harry Potter 2 this weekend.

Beetlejuice is wrecking shop.

#TimBurton’s #BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice crossed the 250M mark at Global #BoxOffice, after grossing 28.7M on 2nd weekend overseas, a -20.4% drop thanks to 7 new markets’ debuts (just -44% on holdovers), for a 76.3M intl. cume over 76 markets.
Allied to its 188M cume in the US, the… pic.twitter.com/wHIIziVUN9

— Luiz Fernando (@Luiz_Fernando_J) September 15, 2024

Transformers One debuts with $3.36 m in Thursday openings. I've never seen a movie do such an about face from the first trailer (Prime and Megs are the 2 best friends that anyone could have) to the second trailer (all sorts of factions and actions and an all-out war.)

Beetlejuice x 2 reached $200m with a $2.4m Thursday. It is only the second comedy to hit $200m since 2013, the other being Barbie last year. Prior to 2023, the last comedy to hit $200m was Ted in 2012. BJ2 (that is not a good acronym) will likely be into the top 10 domestic comedies by this time next week and has a great shot at reaching #2 all time, where Home Alone has lived in the top 2 for 34 years.

Deadpool & Wolverine did something that certainly seemed unthinkable a few years ago when Ryan Reynolds finally got the first of those films greenlit .It passed The Avengers in domestic box office, reaching $623.384m, finishing about $27,000 ahead of the 2012 original Marvel super pair-up.
If it stays in theaters another month D&W could pass Barbie ($636m) and finish #12 all time. What an achievement.

Inside Out 2, down to 700 theaters and now available on streaming, is $700,000 behind Jurassic World for 10th all-time domestic. That shouldn't downplay its remarkable collection of accomplishments:
#1 all time animated box office domestic
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#1 movie of 2024
#1 all-time PG movies
#5 all-time Disney movies
In addition to its huge domestic plunder, it has made $77m in the UK, $50m in Spain, $63m in SOuth Korea, $102m in Mexico, $54m in Germany, $64m in France, and $80m in Brazil.

It will finish #8 all-time worldwide box office, having finally passed Jurassic World there. It's at $1.676bn right now.
#1 all-time international animated box office at $1.023bn, the only animated film to reach that. I suspect Frozen 3, due out in 2026, will be the immediate contender to challenge back.


The top 10 domestic films for 2024 as of 9/20

1. Inside Out 2 - $652.7m
#2 Deadpool & Wolverine - $623.4m
#3 Despicable Me 4 - $359.7m
#4 - Dune Part 2 - $282.1m
#5 Twisters - $266.7m
#6 Beetlejuice 2 - $200.8m
#7 Godzilla vs. Kong - Brokeback Monkey - $196.3m
#8 Kung Fu Panda 4 - $193.6m
#9 Bad Boys 4 - $193.6m
#10 Kingdom of the Planet of the Valley of the River of the Garden of the Rise of the War of the Subway of the Apes - $171.1m

That's $2.182bn for the top 5 movies, with Beetlejuice probably getting into the top 5 at some point. Likely this will not be the final top 5, Mufasa will surely get in there north of $400-$500m, and Gladiator 2 might challenge the top 5 as well, even the Transformers movie if it's as good as it sounds, and Moana 2, which my gut tells me might suck. The Wild RObot might be a sleeper as well, I read it got a 100% RT score after the Toronto Film festival. Not sure if that is a big deal or not.

Beetlejuice edged out Transformers One (or in Spanish Transformacion Uno) $26m to $25m to win the weekend.

This vaults Beetlejuice2 into the Top 10 all-time for comedies at #9 with $226m domestic. It bolted past Austin Powers 2 & 3, Wedding Crashers, Ted, and Mrs. Doubtfire, and will be into the Top 6 by the end of this week, just $8m behind Beverly Hills Cop and $16 million behind Ghostbusters & Bruce Almighty.

Transformers One exceeded the last TF movie, Bumblebee's opening weekend by $4m. That movie finished with $127m.

Deadpool & Wolverine hauled another $3.9m despite shedding 625 theaters down to 2,450. It's up to $627m, less than $10m behind Barbie for 13th all-time and now $25m behind Inside Out 2 for first this year. Inside Out 2 down to just 250 theaters.