‘Terrifier 3’ Eyes Monster Box Office Opening As ‘Joker 2’ Drops 82%

The Joker is no match for Art the Clown as Terrifier 3 is dominating Joker: Folie à Deux at the weekend box office.

Terrifier 3 is the third in the series of unrated shock horror films from writer-director Damien Leone starring David Howard Thornton as the brutally murderous Art the Clown. The Terrifier series kicked off in 2016 and resumed in 2022 with Terrifier 2.

The sequel proved audiences’ thirst for shock horror, as Terrifier 2, per The Numbers, earned $15.7 million at the worldwide box office against a $250,000 production budget before prints and advertising.

Deadline is projecting that Terrifier 3 will open at No. 1 at the North American box office this weekend with an estimated $17 million to $18 million-plus in ticket sales in 2,514 theaters. Distributed by Cineverse, Terrifier 3, according to The Numbers, had a production budget of $2 million before P&A.

The trade publication projects DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robot, which is being distributed by Universal Pictures, will take the No. 2 spot with an estimated $13.5 million at 3,848 domestic locations. If the projection holds, it will up The Wild Robot’s domestic tally to $83.5 million.

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‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ In Domestic Ticket Sales Tank In Week 2

After its tepid opening weekend, Joker: Folie à Deux’s domestic ticket sales are dropping substantially in its second-weekend frame.

Deadline is projecting that Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga’s Joker sequel will earn anywhere from $8 million to $9 million from Friday to Sunday in 4,102 venues, which marks an 82% drop in business.

If the Warner Bros. film finishes with the latter number, it will up Joker: Folie à Deux’s running domestic tally to $53.5 million.

Meanwhile, Deadline projects the Warner Bros. supernatural comedy Beetlejuice Beetlejuice to take the No. 4 spot at the domestic weekend box office with $7.3 million in 3,408 locations.

If the estimate holds, it will boost the running tally for the sequel to 1988’s Beetlejuice to $275.8 million through Sunday.

Deadline projects that the animated adventure Transformers One will take the No. 5 spot at this weekend’s box office with $4.1 million in ticket sales in 2,758 North American theaters. If the estimate holds, it will up Transformers One’s domestic tally to $53.3 million through Sunday.

Also new this weekend is Columbia Pictures’ Saturday Night, director Jason Reitman’s chronicle of the final 90 minutes before the airing of the first episode of NBC’s Saturday Night Live on October 11, 1975.

Columbia’s corporate parent Sony Pictures Entertainment is projecting a domestic $3.7 million to $4 million weekend opening in 2,309 theaters.

Adding in the numbers Saturday Night took in during its limited release in theaters the past two weeks, this weekend’s take will up the film’s domestic tally to $4.45 million to $4.75 million through Sunday.

Also debuting in theaters this weekend is Focus Features’ Pharell Williams LEGO-style documentary Piece by Piece, which Deadline projects will earn $3 million Friday through Sunday weekend at 1,863 locations.

Also new in theaters is Briarcliff Entertainment’s biographical drama The Apprentice, which chronicles a young Donald Trump’s (Sebastian Stan) rise as a real-estate mogul in the 1970s under the auspice of his attorney Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong).

Deadline projects that The Apprentice will earn anywhere from $1.3 million to $1.5 million from 1,740 venues.

Note: This box office report will be updated throughout the weekend as more domestic and international numbers become available. The final numbers for this weekend’s box office will be released on Monday.