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Joker: Folie à Deux bombed in its box office debut with an estimated domestic opening of $40 million, well behind expectations after becoming the the first Hollywood comic book movie in history to earn a D CinemaScore from audiences. Exit polls are equally as grim as audiences express their unhappiness with the antihero-musical …

Leighton Meester (“Single Parents,” “River Wild”) is set to join the season two cast of “The Buccaneers,” the acclaimed drama from The Forge, inspired by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton’s unfinished final novel of the same name.  “The Buccaneers” stars Kristine Frøseth (“The Assistant,” “Sharp Stick”) as Nan St. George, Alisha …

DreamWorks Animation and Universal’s family film The Wild Robot is charming reviewers and audiences alike. The great word of mouth propelled The Wild Robot to win the box office this weekend with an estimated $35 million. Wild Robot is based on Peter Brown’s beloved bestseller about a robot nicknamed ROZ who forms an unexpected …

Beetlejuice continued to hold the top spot at the box office in North America, finishing Sunday with a domestic total of $226.8 million. The Tim Burton-directed movie hasn’t done nearly as well overseas, where it has earned $103 million for a global total of $329.7 million. Paramount and Hasbro Entertainment’s Transformers One missed …

 Beetlejuice Beetlejuice held the top spot at the box office in its second weekend with an estimated $51.6 million as it hurtles toward the $200 million mark domestically. Blumhouse and Universal’s new horror-thriller Speak No Evil was also good news for the early fall box office. The film opened in second place with …

Tim Burton’s long-awaited sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice from Warner Bros., opened to a monstrous $110 million, coming in on the high end of expectations. The campy comedy-horror movie delivered the second-biggest September opening of all time behind fellow Warners’ 2017 R-rated Stephen King adaptation It($123 million), not adjusted for inflation. And it was …

Marvel Studios and Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine keeps playing and playing, and grossed an estimated $19.4 million, putting its domestic tally at an estimated $603.8 million through Sunday, the sixth-best showing ever for a superhero movie. The movie stayed No. 1 at the box office in its sixth outing and crossed $600 …

Deadpool & Wolverine, Alien: Romulus and It Ends With Us easily beat new offerings on the August marquee, including suspense thriller Blink Twice and The Crow reboot. Marvel Studios and Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine reclaimed the top spot in its fifth weekend with $18.3 million for a domestic total approaching $580 million and a worldwide haul of $1.221 billion. The …

Alien: Romulus scared up strong business in its box office debut as it sets out to revive the classic franchise. The 20th Century and Disney movie topped the domestic weekend chart with $45.1 million, well ahead of a projected debut in the high-$20 million range and the second-best opening of the …

Marvel Studios and Disney’s Deadpool & Wolverine — in addition to crossing the $1 billion mark at the global box office on Saturday — stayed atop the North American chart with $54.2 million in its third weekend. The blockbuster, which has obliterated one record after another, finished Sunday with an estimated domestic tally of $494.3 …