The tweet you posted is 11 days old and has been re-tweeted 31 times. You really think this is going to move the needle on the box office?

Had to miss the update that Beetlejuice 2 surpassed Home Alone as the #2 comedy of all time (domestic) a few days ago as staff rewarded me with a nice break for being hilarious.

Over the weekend, Venom 3 banked $51m. This was a significant drop from the original ($80m in early October 2018) and the 2021 sequel ($90m).

The original was massive force overseas, scoring $213m, $642 international, for a worldwide slaying of $856m. It was just outside the top 10 domestic in a massive year that featured 3 movie make more than $600m.

The sequel made $213m domestic, $293m international, and $506m total, which was pretty strong the first year back to movies after COVID. It finished third domestically behind Spider-Man: No Way Home and Shang Chi, ahead of Marvel meh movies Black Widow and Eternals.

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Smile 2 was #2 with $9.5 on the weekend, followed by the still-going-strong Wild Robot, at $6.8m, up to $111m in an animation world largely dominated by Disney / Pixar / Minions.

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Joker bled 1,614 theaters off its total and is no win just 1,243. It's at $57.8m domestic after the first one made $335m in 2019.

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Deadpool & Wolverine is down to just 300 theaters as it approaches its Disney+ debut. Still made $133,000 though, and is now less than $400,000 away from hitting $700m international. It won't quite catch Joker for #1 R rated International movie ever ($728m), but is the #1 Global R movie ever ($1.336 bn).

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Beetlejuice 2 is likely to have a big uptick Thursday-Sunday for Halloween movie goers and is a closing in on $300m, really remarkable stuff. Again, not adjusted for inflation. I thought I was going to write its Michael Keaton's top box office draw ever, but that's not true. He was the bad guy in Spiderman: Homecoming which made $334m, and has been in Toy Story 3 ($415m) and Minions ($336m),

Keaton is having the kind of late-career box office suggest paralleling the likes of Ian McKellen, Christopher Lee, and I'm sure there are several others I'm forgetting- Michael Caine and Morgan Freeman, maybe?

Before 2006, he had been in two movies that made more than $100m - Batman ($251m) and Batman returns ($162m). As recently as 2005 he was the co-star of Lindsey Lohan in "Herbie: Fully Loaded". He was 54 years old at the time, so not looking great.

Then he added Cars in 2006 as a voice actor ($244m), getting into that glorious Disney stable.

In 2010 he's in Toy Story 3 as Ken ($415m) and The Other Guys ($119m)

In 2014 he's in the magnificent Birdman and is suddenly way way back in the limelight, despite being 63 years old at the time.

In 2015, he has some fun as one of the bad guy voices in Minions that makes $336m.
In 2017 he's in the first new Spider-man movie and just fantastic, that makes $334m.
In 2019, he's in Dumbo, which mostly sucked, but still made $114m
We're going to forget the weird Morbius cameo.
In 2023, he's in the massively flawed Flash, but he's Batman again, and it makes $108m despite the movie having Ezra Miller in it.
In 2024, Beetlejuice 2 comes out and crushes it - up to $289m. Homeboy is SEVENTY THREE YEARS OLD with 8 movies that have made $100m+ since he turned 56 in 2006.

Joker 2 leaves the box office as one of the most spectacular sequel failures of all time.

$44.556m on its opening weekend of October 4

Leave theaters on November 7 at $58.259m.

Opened in 4,102 theaters.
Dropped to 2,857 on its 15th day of release
Then to 1,243 theaters on Day 22
Then to 324 on Day 29


#400 on the all-time sequels domestic box office list. Trailing such luminaries as:

The Croods: A New Age (#398), My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2 (#393), and yes, even Superman III (#391).

The second-worst wide-release film for Todd Phillips as a director, trailing only 2016's War Dogs (Miles Teller / Jonah Hill) that made $43 million. That movie had a budget of $50 million. Joker 2's budget was somehow $190 million.