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 mashup, which did less than half of the business the first Joker did in its launch despite costing more than three times as much to make, or $190 million.
The Wild Robot held well in its second weekend, placing second with $18.7 million for a domestic total of $63.9 million and jumping the $100 mark globally. Box office hit Beetlejuice Beetlejuice cleared the $400 million threshold in its fifth weekend. It came in third domestically with $10.3 million for a North American tally of $265.5 million and $402.6 million worldwide.
The top 12 movies of the weekend, as of Sunday, October 6, are as follows:
| # | Title | Distributor Name | Weekend Total | # of Locs | Loc Avg | Cume Total | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joker: Folie à Deux | Warner Bros. | $40,000,000 | 4,102 | $9,751 | $40,000,000 | |
| 2 | Wild Robot, The | Universal | $18,700,000 | 3,997 | $4,679 | $63,984,060 | -48% |
| 3 | Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | Warner Bros. | $10,325,000 | 3,576 | $2,887 | $265,506,148 | -36% |
| 4 | Transformers One | Paramount | $5,350,000 | 3,106 | $1,722 | $47,221,486 | -42% |
| 5 | Speak No Evil | Universal | $2,800,000 | 2,279 | $1,229 | $32,586,465 | -34% |
| 6 | Sam and Colby: The Legends of the Paranormal | Independent | $1,755,870 | 295 | $5,952 | $2,150,489 | |
| 7 | White Bird | Lionsgate | $1,530,000 | 1,018 | $1,503 | $1,530,000 | |
| 8 | Deadpool & Wolverine | Disney | $1,526,000 | 1,605 | $951 | $633,839,345 | -45% |
| 9 | Substance, The | MUBI | $1,346,938 | 686 | $1,963 | $9,732,418 | -35% |
| 10 | Megalopolis | Lionsgate | $1,050,000 | 1,854 | $566 | $6,489,266 | -74% |
| 11 | My Old Ass | Amazon MGM Studios | $908,376 | 1,205 | $754 | $4,513,848 | -58% |
| 12 | Never Let Go | Lionsgate | $645,000 | 981 | $657 | $9,795,650 | -71% |
