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Smile 2, won the domestic box office race with an estimated $23 million from 3,619 theaters, including Imax and other premium large-format screens. That would put the film’s debut just ahead of the first Smile, a sleeper hit that opened to $22.6 million in late September 2022 on its way to grossing more than $217 million worldwide against a $17 million budget.
Wild Robot has bragging rights to holding second place in its fourth weekend, as it crossed the $100 million mark domestically after earning another $10 million from 3,829 cinemas, for a domestic tally of $101.7 million through Sunday and $196 million globally.
The top 12 movies of the weekend, as of Sunday, October 20, are as follows:
| # | Title | Distributor Name | Weekend Total | # of Locs | Loc Avg | Cume Total | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smile 2 | Paramount | $23,000,000 | 3,619 | $6,355 | $23,000,000 | |
| 2 | Wild Robot, The | Universal | $10,100,000 | 3,829 | $2,638 | $101,717,115 | -28% |
| 3 | Terrifier 3 | Iconic Events | $9,307,881 | 2,762 | $3,370 | $36,215,033 | -51% |
| 4 | Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | Warner Bros. | $5,000,000 | 3,251 | $1,538 | $283,973,139 | -32% |
| 5 | We Live in Time | A24 | $4,185,758 | 985 | $4,250 | $4,506,030 | 1699% |
| 6 | Joker: Folie à Deux | Warner Bros. | $2,180,000 | 2,857 | $763 | $56,442,948 | -69% |
| 7 | Piece by Piece | Focus Features | $2,100,000 | 1,873 | $1,121 | $7,601,985 | -45% |
| 8 | Transformers One | Paramount | $1,965,000 | 2,169 | $906 | $56,634,862 | -48% |
| 9 | Saturday Night | Sony | $1,800,000 | 2,336 | $771 | $7,631,923 | -47% |
| 10 | Nightmare Before Christmas (2024) (re) | Disney | $1,129,000 | 1,860 | $607 | $4,816,434 | -53% |
| 11 | Substance, The | MUBI | $878,611 | 548 | $1,603 | $13,385,418 | -21% |
| 12 | Hocus Pocus (2024) (re) | Disney | $841,000 | 1,480 | $568 | $841,000 |
