(Los Angeles) The independent horror film Terrify 3 topped the North American box office this weekend, while Joker: Folie à deuxleader the previous week, collapsed, according to Sunday projections from the specialist firm Exhibitor Relations.
Terrify 3produced by independent studios Cineverse and Icon Events, grossed $18.2 million between Saturday and Sunday in Canada and the United States, a debut described as “exceptional” for the third film in a franchise of this genre by David A. Gross, analyst for Franchise Entertainment Research.
In this third part, still directed by the creator of the trilogy Damien Leone, a terrifying clown, Art, returns to sow terror as the Christmas holidays approach.
Like last week, The Wild Robota science fiction fresco from the animation studio DreamWorks, came in second place, with $13.4 million earned.
Actress Lupita Nyong’o lends her voice to the robot Oz, who finds himself on an uninhabited island following a typhoon, and must befriend forest animals to survive.
THE Joker: Folie à deuxnew opus of the Joker, Batman’s sworn enemy, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, lost nearly 80% of its revenues in one week, going from 40 million dollars raised to only 7.1 million.
A brutal drop for a film with a budget close to 200 million dollars.
Such a decline in the second week is the worst ever experienced by a film based in a comic book universe, and one of the worst of all films combined, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
In fourth position — down one place — comes BeetlejuiceBeetlejuicein which Michael Keaton returns the striped costume of the sinister and prankster “bio-exorcist”, with 7 million dollars.
THE top 5 is completed by Piece by Piecean animated musical film, which tells the life of American musician Pharrell Williams in the form of Lego pieces, and pocketed 3.8 million dollars.
The Apprenticean explosive biopic about the business beginnings of former US President Donald Trump, had a very mixed start, arriving only in 10e position with $1.6 million.
The Republican candidate in the November 5 presidential election tried to prevent the release of this film, in particular because of a scene showing him raping his first wife Ivana.
The rest of the top 10
- 6. Transformers One ($3.7 million)
- 7. Saturday Night (3.4 million)
- 8. My Hero Academia: You’re Next (3 million)
- 9. The Nightmare Before Christmas (reissue, 2.3 million)
- 10. The Apprentice (1.6 million)