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Art the Clown has dethroned Arthur Fleck as the box office’s favorite killer clown, whose first name is Arthur. Strange that there are two! Terrible 3 debuted at No. 1 at the domestic box office, grossing $18.3 million in its first week. Below, Joker 2 came in second place with just over $7 million. Slide for two saw an 80% drop in ticket sales in the second week diversity. It had a larger drop than The Marvels, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Shazam: Fury of the Gods, And The lightning. What an unhappy moment for comic book movies. It’s easy to see: promise a musical with Lady Gaga and present a non-musical with Stefani Germonatta? Bad BO Promise a Christmas movie about a clown who kills people and present a Christmas movie about a clown who kills people? Boffo box office, baby. Even if Christmas is in October.

The opening weekends of Pharrell’s Lego documentary are anything but pleasant Piece by piece, Lorne Michael’s stress dream Saturday evening, and controversial Trump/Roy Cohn biopic The apprentice. They debuted in 6th, 7th and 11th place respectively. The top 5 was rounded out by The wild robot, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, And Transformers One. Next week, Smile 2 Debuts, as comedian Demi Adejuyigbe pointed out on Twitter, mean that “a sequel about a killer clown, a sequel about an evil smile, and a $200 million sequel about a killer clown with an evil smile” will all be competing for the same audience . Who says Hollywood is out of ideas?