But Winter River still has a bit of an edge of Wonderland. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice beat Alice In Wonderland‘s opening day by about $700,000, according to Variety. That makes it not just the best opening day of Burton’s career at $41.5 million, but the second biggest opening day ever for a September release. The ghost with the most falls just behind Pennywise the clown in It, which captured $50.4 million on its opening day in 2017. If these studios ever want to make even more money, they should have those two square off Alien Vs. Predator-style; it would be the terrifying weird little guy event of the century.
Betelgeuse is followed by two worthy foes in Deadpool & Wolverine, which still managed to bring in a hefty $7.2 million despite the fact that this was its seventh weekend in theaters. Fellow franchise fare Alien: Romulus hasn’t been quite as lucky. It drops out of the top three in its fourth weekend, with a slightly weaker $3.9 million haul. Reagan steps up to take its place with $5.2 million. Lower down the list, A24’s The Front Room—the Brandy-led, feature-length tryout for Robert Eggers’ brothers Max and Sam—had a scary opening weekend for a very different reason: it only managed to summon $1.7 million, landing it in the 10th spot.
Check out the full list, via Box Office Mojo, below:
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, $110,000,000
- Deadpool & Wolverine, $7,200,000
- Reagan, $5,231,440
- Alien: Romulus, $3,910,000
- It Ends With Us, $3,750,000
- The Forge, $2,935,000
- Twisters, $2,250,000
- Blink Twice, $2,114,769
- Despicable Me 4, $1,800,000
- The Front Room, $1,663,954
