Beetlejuice is Beetlejuice's Stays No.1 as Speak No Evil

Elsewhere, almost a decade's third-biggest opening for a film comes from conservative provocateur Matt Walsh's mockumentary "Am I Racist?"

Tim Burton and Warner Bros. Beetlejuice Lost none of its eerie charm in its second weekend, Beetlejuice readily topped the box office chart with an estimated $51.6 million as it shot toward the $200 million mark domestically.

Playing in 4,575 theaters around the country, the picture dropped merely 54 percent for a 10-day domestic total of $188 million. Overseas, the sequel earned another $28.7 million from 76 nations for a lukewarm overseas total of $76.3 million and $264.3 million worldwide.

For the early fall box office, Blumhouse and Universal's new horror-thriller Speak No Evil also looked great. Against a budget of just $15 million before marketing, the pic started in second place with an estimated $11.5 million from 3,375 sites. The film centers on an American family spending the weekend at a luxurious British manor only to find that their host—James Mcavoy—has a somewhat evil side. McAvoy is scoring really well for his performance.

Speak No Evil has an audience B+ CinemaScore and a Rotten Tomatoes critics score of 85 percent. From 73 markets, it began overseas with $9.3 million for a worldwide launch of $20.8 million.

With an estimated $5.2 million for a domestic cume of $621.5 million and $1.305 billion globally, Marvel and Disney's Deadpool & Wolverine stayed at No. 3 all the eighth weekend ranks seventh among any MCU title.

The third biggest since Disney's wildlife film Bears a decade ago, conservative provocateur Matt Walsh's Am I Racist started in fourth place with an estimated $4.8 million from 1,500 outlets, surprising us most of all. Am I Racist? is doing large business in conservative South, Midwest, and Mountain States areas.

Described as a "social experiment," the Justin Folk-directed film from Ben Shapiro and Jeremy Boreing's The Daily Wire marks the company's first theatrical release for an in-house production with SDG Releasing handling distribution.

Drawing comparisons to Borat in terms of its strategies, Walsh fools his subjects in the movie by posing as a DEI trainee attending anti-racism seminars, crashes private intellectual dinner parties and does sit-down interviews with regular Americans and experts on the subject of racism. The movie also shows the payments made to several experts, including author of White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism Robin Di Angelo. DiAngelo attacked Walsh recently and said she had given her $15,000 fee to the Legal Defense Fund of the NAACP.

Walsh tweeted on X (previously Twitter) Saturday stating that although the movie has a 99 percent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, no "mainstream film critics" had seen his work. Owner of X, Elon Musk shouted out Am I Racist? when tweeting Walsh: "That is an outstanding audience score!” You may also read this: Signs You Need a Kneecap Movie Review

Starring Dennis Quaid, Ronald Reagan drama Reagan rounded out the top five with $3 million from 2,450 screenings in its third weekend for a domestic total of $23.3 million through Sunday.

Lionsgate's new action picture The Killer's Game, featuring Dave Bautista as a seasoned hitman who orders a contract for his own death after being falsely diagnosed with a terminal disease, was the major victim of the weekend. After receiving bad reviews and a B+ CinemaScore from viewers, the R-rated film came in sixth place with a dismal $2.6 million from 2,653 theatres.

With God's Not Dead: In God We Trust, which grossed $1.8 million from 1,312 venues, Fathom Events also made the top 10. And the most recent rerelease of the cult film Coraline by the distributor has now earned $33.4 million during its 15th anniversary celebration run.

My Old Ass, a highly regarded Sundance Film Festival favorite at the specialty box office, earned a strong per theater average of $24,535 upon opening in seven theaters in New York, Los Angeles, and Austin, Texas. From Amazon and MGM, the coming-of- age narrative centers on an 18-year-old meeting her elder self. Second feature writer-director Megan Park stars Aubrey Plaza and newcomer Maisy Stella in 32 cinemas across 10 markets. Originally released September 14 at 10:05 a.m.