Box: Where There's a Will, There's Another Will

1. Joker - $43m / $179m / $255m
2. The Addams Family - $20m / $20m / $60m
3. Gemini Man - $15m / $15m / $44m
4. Abominable - $7m / $48.5m / $64m
5. Downton Abbey - $4.5m / $82m / $93m
6. Jexi - $4m / $4m / $10m
7. Hustlers - $3.5m / $97.5m / $107m
**Judy - $3.5m / $15m / $26m
9. It: Chapter 2 - $2.5m / $206.5m / $211m
10. Ad Astra - $2m / $47m / $50m

Joker has been having very strong weekdays, so legs might be decent after all. Three openers this weekend, led by the long in development animated Addams Family. It should do okay, while there are no reviews yet. Probably not a good sign. Gemini Man does have reviews and they are quite bad. That didn't hurt Will Smith with Aladdin, but that was a brand name. At least it won't be a megaflop like Ang Lee's last technical foray - Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. I'm still shocked that didn't even gross $2m. The last opener is the comedy Jexi, which reimagines Her but as a broad comedy. Looks like the typical October comedy that grosses nothing and will be in a $5 DVD bin in a year or so. Lastly, Downton Abbey will in the next week surpass Brokeback Mountain to become Focus Features' highest grossing film, a record the latter held for 14 years. Not sure what exactly happened to Focus. They were the best in the early-to-mid aughts, but their quality dropped off considerably this decade.