Terrifier 3 has sent Joker: Folie à Deux tumbling back down that set of stairs by knocking the big budget comic-book sequel from the top of the box-office charts with an $18.3 million 3-day opening weekend.
It was a tale of two clowns, with Cineverse’s Terrifier 3 posting one of the most remarkable results of the year, as the $5 million budgeted slasher film took the top spot, while Warner Bros. and DC Studios $200 million sequel suffered one of the worst sophomore frames of all time with a cataclysmic 81% slump.
Our critic EJ Moreno called Damien Leone’s threequel the best entry yet in his review, and it appears audiences agreed because they couldn’t get enough of Art the Clown’s gory antics over the weekend. International numbers are yet to be reported, but this is already a huge win for the indie movie.
The same couldn’t be said for Joker 2, which had the ignominy of seeing the worst drop for a DC character movie following its second weekend haul of just $7.055 million. The previous record was held by 2023’s The Flash, which slumped -73% during its second frame. While Folie à Deux‘s domestic tally is pretty shocking, currently standing at $51.6 million, the Todd Phillips directed film is performing much better overseas, with a global cume of $165 million.
Elsewhere in the charts Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night failed to make much of a dent with $3.4 million, Pharrell Williams LEGO biopic Piece by Piece also went largely unnoticed with a soft $3.8 million, and the much ballyhooed Sebastian Stan-headlined Donald Trump biopic The Apprentice landed outside the Top 10 with just $1.58 million.
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