Warner Bros. now has the two highest ever opening weekends in September
Warner Bros.’ “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” now has the second highest ever opening weekend in the month of September, scoring an excellent $110 million domestic launch from 4,575 theaters.
After earning $13.5 million from Thursday previews and $28.3 million on Friday, Saturday saw a 45% increase to $41.8 million, ensuring that Tim Burton’s sequel becomes the second September release to earn a $100 million-plus opening. The first to do so was also a Warner Bros. title: Andy Muschietti’s “It” with $123.4 million in 2017.
In recent years, the box office has had to suffer through weeks of poor weekend returns between August and October due to a lack of highly anticipated tentpoles. That would have been the case here without “Beetlejuice 2,” as no other film this weekend grossed more than $10 million.
