By Ben Miller
For the second straight week, the story of the North American box office is about failure instead of success. While horror film Smile captured the top spot for the second straight week, David O. Russell's star-studded Amsterdam managed only $6.4 million on a reported $80 budget. Many are blaming the poor reception from critics and audiences (33% on Rotten Tomatoes, a measly B CinemaScore), but this feels like Russell's indiscretions coming back to bite him. Meanwhile, Lyle, Lyle Crocodile, the first kid-focused film released in months, made for a solid 2nd-place showing.
| Holiday Weekend Box Office (estimates... not every film has reported yet) October 7th-10th 🔺 = new or expanding / ★ = Recommended links if we've written about it |
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| WIDE (OVER 800 SCREENS) | LIMITED / PLATFORM |
 SMILE |
 TRIANGLE OF SADNESS |
| 1 SMILE $18.4 (cum. $50.7) | 1 🔺 TERRIFIER 2 $805k *NEW* 770 screens |
| 2 🔺 LYLE LYLE CROCODILE $11.4 *NEW* | 2 VIKRAM VEDHA $277k (cum. $1.5) 232 screens |
| 3 🔺 AMSTERDAM $6.4 *NEW* | 3 PONNIYIN SELVAN $264k (cum. $4.2) 500 screens |
| 4 ★ THE WOMAN KING $5.1 (cum. $54) | 4 🔺 ★ TRIANGLE OF SADNESS $214k *NEW 10 screens |
| 5 DON'T WORRY DARLING $3.5 (cum. $38.4) | 5 ★ MOONAGE DAYDREAM (doc) $170k (Cum. $3.8) 290 screens |
| 6 ★ AVATAR (RE-RELEASE) $2.7 (cum. $23.4) | 6 🔺 ★ TÁR $158k *NEW* 4 screens |
 BROS |
 TÁR |
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7 BARBARIAN $2.1 (cum. $36.5) |
7🔺 THE STORIED LIFE OF AJ FIKRY $121k *NEW* 332 screens |
| 8 ★ BROS $2.1 (cum. $8.9) |
8 CUANDO SEA JOVEN $39k (cum. $533k) 59 screens |
| 9 ★ TOP GUN MAVERICK $805k (cum. $714.6) | 9 SUPERSPREADER $26k (cum. $381k) 98 screens |
| 10 BULLET TRAIN $646k (cum. $102.3) | 10 EMILY THE CRIMINAL $1k (cum. $2.1) 7 screens |
Elsewhere, The Woman King looks to have legs. Despite some worry about its box office prospects, the highly positive reviews and word-of-mouth led to only a small percentage drop from last week. If the film keeps it up, it might be able to climb close to $100 million.
In limited theaters, the debuts of critical darlings and Oscar hopefuls Triangle of Sadness and Tár each had strong per screen averages. Tár expands on October 28th.
What did you see these past few days? It was a spooky movie weekend for me as I knocked out classics like Shaun of the Dead and The Blair Witch Project. I also watched the new Hellraiser on Hulu.