Our hosts aren’t the only ones clowning around this week, as we watched Terrifier 3 overtake Joker: Folie a Deux with an unfortunately dramatic 2nd week drop, and saw The Apprentice join the market. While Joker may not have been the box office boost we hoped to see, we’re looking ahead to promising pre-sales for Smile 2, Gladiator 2, and Wicked so join us Behind the Screens to see how the rest of 2024’s slate is shaping up.

Topics and times:

• Box office overview: Joker, Terrifier 3 - 0:58
• Terrifier 3 audience analysis - 2:30
• Terrifier 3 budget, profitability, and reception - 5:22
• Extended box office roundup - 6:27
• The Apprentice reception - 7:20
• Piece by Piece audience analysis - 8:15
• Saturday Night - 11:14
• Joker: Folie a Deux roundup - 11:53
• The Wild Robot, and pre-sales for Smile 2, Gladiator 2, and Wicked - 14:00
• Next week - 16:21

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Box Office Overview:

• Terrifier 3 debuted at number 1 with $18.3M domestically and nearly $5M internationally. On a budget of only $2M, an opening weekend total of $23.1M makes Terrifier 3 likely to be the most profitable movie of the year.
• The Wild Robot grossed another $13.5M domestically, keeping a strong momentum in its 3rd week.
• Joker: Folie a Deux saw an unfortunate 81% drop in the domestic market with only $7M, making for the highest 2nd week drop of a comic book movie.
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice in its 6th week was only a hair behind, also with $7M in the domestic market, where its total has now passed $275M.
• Piece by Piece, a lego documentary, debuted to $3.8M.
• My Hero Academia the Movie: You’re Next debuted with just over $3M domestically.
• And The Apprentice grossed $1.58M from 1740 screens.

Joker: Folie a Deux had an unfortunate debut at the box office. Between poor audience and critical reception, and a box office result below expectations, it was a rough debut. Join Matthew for a solo deep-dive into the box office, reception, and audience analysis as we try to answer why Joker fell flat, and what can still come of it?

Topics and times:

• Joker: Folie a Deux domestic box office analysis - 1:29
• Joker: Folie a Deux international box office overview - 2:46
• Joker: Folie a Deux audience reception and media reaction - 4:24
• Joker: Folie a Deux audience analysis - 5:58
• How can Joker be salvaged? - 8:18
• Box office overview and other releases - 9:54
• Next week and upcoming releases - 13:34

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Box Office Overview:

• Joker: Folie a Deux underperformed compared to industry predictions, grossing $37.8M with its debut domestically, and $81.1M internationally for a total of $118.9M.
• The Wild Robot added $18.7M domestically, and $13M internationally, which brought the total past $10M globally.
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice grossed an additional $10.2M domestically, bringing the domestic total to $265M, and crossing $400M globally.
• Transformers One grossed $5.4M domestically, coming in at 4th position, and is now close to reaching the $100M worldwide mark.
• White Bird debuted this weekend to $1.5M in the domestic market.

Fresh from NATO Fall Summit, Matthew is joined by Lauren Greene this week for box office, audience analysis, and marketing recommendations for The Wild Robot. With crossover potential between The Wild Robot and Transformers One, there’s a lot to cover!

Plus, with Joker: Folie a Deux debuting this weekend, we examine the pre-sales performance to see how it’s shaping up compared to the original, and how the audience for Phoenix and Gaga has evolved.

Topics and times:

• NATO Fall Summit - 0:40
• The Wild Robot box office overview - 3:15
• The Wild Robot audience analysis & marketing recommendations - 5:11
• Overlap with Transformers One audience - 8:19
• New release box office overview - 10:01
• Megalopolis box office overview - 10:57
• Holdovers roundup - 15:20
• Joker: Folie a Deux pre-sales and audience analysis - 17:53

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Box Office Overview:

• The Wild Robot debuted to $35M domestically, and $9.9M internationally for a global weekend of $44.9M. Releasing earlier in some markets, its total now sits at $53.1M from 30 territories globally.
• Beetlejuice Beetlejuice dropped to 2nd position with $16M domestically putting its domestic total over the 250M mark, now approaching $375M globally.
• Transformers One grossed another $9.3M domestically, down 62%, and $16.6M internationally, reaching a global total of $72M.
• Devara: Part 1 grossed over $5M domestically, and 27.8M internationally, placing it at $32.9M globally.
• Megalopolis opened globally to a dismal $6.1M worldwide, below its already conservative forecasts.