NZ box office report: Beetlejuice is the ghost with the most (…money)

Our weekly guide to what’s happening at the Aotearoa box office – thanks to Numero

Cinemagoers continue to celebrate the reunion of Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder and Tim Burton’s grotesque afterlife visions, keeping Beetlejuice Beetlejuice in top spot this week. Speaking of grotesque, the horrors of Speak No Evil sit in second place, just ahead of Thelma and Deadpool & Wolverine.

Here are the top 10 films at the Aotearoa box office, Sept 12-18:

1. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros.) $572,262 (cume total $1,421,579)
2. Speak No Evil (Universal) $148,095 (new release)
3. Thelma (Maslow Entertainment) $146,823 (cume total $292,514)
4. Deadpool & Wolverine (Walt Disney) $142,242 (cume total $8,310,451)
5. Ardaas Sarbat De Bhalle Di (Forum Distribution) $140,547 (new release)
6. It Ends With Us (Sony) $104,088 (cume total $3,346,619)
7. Encanto Reo Māori (Walt Disney) $95,914 (new release)
8. ARM: Ajayante Randam Moshanam (Wanderlust Films) $70,352 (new release)
9. Alien: Romulus (Walt Disney) $64,168 (cume total $1,410,819)
10. The Forge (Crossroad) $60,110 (cume total $249,432)