Weekend Box Office: 'Smile 2' Keeps Horror on Top

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'Smile 2' Leads Box Office With $23 Million Debut, A24's 'We Live in Time' Cracks Top Five https://t.co/TFzqZeA1x4
- Variety (@Variety) October 20, 2024

Though the box office was not exactly aflame this weekend, Smile 2 took in $23 million for the top spot, pushing last week's champ Terrifer 3 into third place with $9.1 million. Newcomer We Live in

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[quinnmorgendorf]

I saw Saturday Night and have mixed feelings. I thought the cast was great, especially Gabriel Labelle, Cooper Hoffman, Lamorne Morris, and the guys who played Chevy Chase and Billy Crystal - Labelle and Hoffman might be my favorite young actors? - but it felt suuuper Sorkin-y, like I felt like I was watching an episode of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Also the double dose of Nicholas Braun was unpleasant and unnecessary, I really can't stand him as an actor.

Also Dylan O'Brien as Dan Aykroyd was really doing it for me in a way I wasn't expecting idk. Let me go check out Caddo Lake lol.

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yeah, I have never thought twice about Dylan O'Brien til this movie, lol.

[luckytohaveher]

I really want to see Smile 2 and We live in time

[insecuredesign]

Naomi finally proving to everyone how talented she is! I hope she starts getting more leading roles in movies now.

[squirrels_oh_no]

If I was at home with the $6.50 matinee tickets, I would go see Smile 2, but alas, the nearest theater to my parents is $30 all in for a ticket and popcorn and drink and I am not that invested in it. I still want to see Anora when it goes wide, though. Are limited releases even that relevant anymore? I know it's to drum up attention and interest, but do they really even in this age of media?

[scriptedending]

I think distributors are struggling with figuring out how to get audiences for smaller movies back to theaters. Small movies are just not doing nearly as well at the box office as they used to, whether they are immediately dumped into wide release or platform released from limited to wide, so they're trying everything they can to build WOM and hype via screenings/promo/whatever to get butts in seats. Platform releasing used to work really well, and I think they are hoping it can work for movies like Anora, but I don't know what the future of that strategy is going to look like.

[jenfolder]

In the UK they've re-released Paddington 1 & 2. I saw them both one after the other and they are just perfect feel good movies.

I also saw Smile 2 which was totally ok.

Really looking forward to Heretic.

[thebadunkadunk]

I made my friend watch Paddington yesterday! So good!!

I am really concerned about Paddington 3 without the same director and without Sally Hawkins

[jime22]

They should hold a Paddingthon once the third is out