(Los Angeles) After an exceptional start, the more or less living dead of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice director Tim Burton’s “The Last of Us” remains at the top of the North American box office, grossing $51.7 million, according to projections Sunday from specialist firm Exhibitor Relations.
The highly anticipated sequel to the first part Beetlejuice The 1988 film may have been down by half from its sensational opening last weekend, but it has outpaced other films in theaters by a wide margin.
In this macabre comedy, Michael Keaton once again plays the striped costume of the sinister and prankster “bio-exorcist” at the age of 73, trying to join the world of the living.
The American actor shares the bill with Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara, also already present in the original cast, as well as with newcomers like Monica Bellucci and Jenna Ortega, recently propelled by the Netflix series Wednesday (inspired by The Addams Family), produced by Tim Burton.
In second place, still horror, but more distressing, the American remake of the Danish-Dutch film Don’t say anything grossed $11.5 million, with “excellent” reviews from audiences and critics, according to expert David A. Gross of Franchise Entertainment Research.
Invited to stay at a remote British farmhouse, a couple soon discovers that their seemingly benevolent hosts are in fact serial killers.
Third, superheroes Deadpool & Wolverine dropped another place this week with $5.2 million. But overall, the Disney/Marvel blockbuster starring Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman earned $621.5 million in the United States alone.
In fourth place, the political parody documentary Am I Racist? has raked in nearly $4.8 million. Ultraconservative commentator Matt Walsh goes undercover to anti-racism workshops and crashes dinners with intellectuals.
The movie Reagan on the life of the Republican American president fell to fifth place with $2.8 million.
Here’s the rest of the top 10:
6. Killer’s Game ($2.6 million)
7. Alien: Romulus ($2.4 million)
8. Never Again ($2 million)
9. The Forge ($2 million)
10. God’s Not Dead: In God We Trust ($1.5 million)