Smile 2 has a lot to smile about at the weekend box office
The smirking sequel won the weekend
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Joker: Folie à Deux may have used Dick Van Dyke’s “Put On A Happy Face” in its promo, but it’s Smile 2 that has the whole world smiling with it. The entity clearly did its job, because the horror sequel spread to the masses in a big way. Smile 2 opened with $23 million at the box office this weekend, proving that—once again—sticking those creepy smiling actors at baseball games really does put butts in seats. It’s a shame this didn’t happen when Neon released Longlegs; that movie’s promo was also world-class, but it would have been funny to see someone pop up in all of that makeup at a football game or something. You wouldn’t even be able to tell it wasn’t Nicolas Cage.