Box Office Battle: “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” wins weekend with $110M debut

“Box Office Battle” is The Fly’s weekly roundup of what movies topped the weekend’s box office.

Tim Burton’s sequel “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” won the North American box office with a $110M debut. The Warner Bros.’ (WBD) movie delivered the second-biggest September opening of all time. Overseas, “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” earned an estimated $35M from 69 markets. The move received a B+ CinemaScore and sports a Rotten Tomatoes critics score of 76%.

BOX OFFICE RUNNER-UPS: Disney (DIS) and Marvel’s “Deadpool & Wolverine” placed number 2 with $7.2M in its seventh weekend for a global tally of $1.257M. Behind it was the indie Ronald Reagan biopic “Reagan” with $5.2M for a 10-day domestic cume of $18.5M. Disney and 20th Century’s “Alien: Romulus” placed number 4 with another $4M for a global cume of $314.4M. Rounding out the top five, Sony‘s (SONY) “It Ends With Us” grossed an estimated $3.8M as it crossed the $300M mark globally.

WEEKEND BOX OFFICE:

1. “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” – $110M
2. “Deadpool & Wolverine” – $7.2M
3. “Reagan” – $5.2M
4. “Alien: Romulus” – $4M
5. “It Ends With Us” – $3.8M

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