The horror sequel “Smile 2” debuted atop the box office this weekend, taking in $23 million at North American theaters, according to final figures released Monday.
Writer-director Parker Finn’s follow-up to his 2022 hit beat out “The Wild Robot,” which grossed $10.1 million in its fourth weekend of release, according to box-office tracker Comscore.
“Terrifier 3” slipped to third one week after opening in first place, grossing $9.3 million between Friday through Sunday.
“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” continued to attract viewers in its seventh week in theaters, earning $5 million and pushing its overall to nearly $284 million. Fifth place over the weekend went to “We Live in Time,” a romance starring Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh, which opened with $4.2 million.
Rounding out the top 10 domestic releases were “Joker: Folie á Deux” ($2.1 million), “Piece by Piece” ($2.05 million), “Transformers One” ($2 million), “Saturday Night” ($1.7 million), and a re-release of 1993’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas” ($1.2 million).
This weekend’s overall three-day box office haul was nearly $70 million. The year-to-date total is $6.64 billion — down 11.4% from the figure at this time last year, according to Comscore.