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Well, that didn’t last too long. After taking the top spot in Amazon Prime Video’s Top 10 movie list, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is back down to #2, replaced by the movie it originally unseated, Deadpool and Wolverine.
Deadpool and Wolverine, despite its R-rating, has massive appeal after its $1.3 billion box office haul. Not that Beetlejuice also didn’t perform excellently, and it seems more than likely that we will see a third film in the series, no doubt called…Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. I’m not going to lie I am already tired of typing Beetlejuice in this article.
The rest of the list features more popular films that have now dropped down to a low rental price. Despicable Me 4 is now $6 to rent, Twisters is now $10. Meanwhile, Deadpool and Wolverine is still $25 just to rent, or $30 to buy. Probably should just buy, at that price.
Top 10
Alien Romulus is at #5, the well-received installment of the series and the best-reviewed since the original two films. I am somewhat surprised to see The Wild Robot debuting down at #9 given how massively well-received it was as the best kids movie of the year, but I expect that will climb over time as people realize it’s out. It only came out on streaming for rental or purchase yesterday, I believe.
I am fully of the opinion that everyone should watch Trap (#10), an almost entirely bloodless horror movie that did not get a fair shake from critics, but M. Night Shyamalan’s latest is actually very good, and Josh Hartnett legitimately deserves an Oscar nomination. That will never happen, of course, but I’m serious. He’s so great in this movie.
I would expect Deadpool and Wolverine to hover around the top 3 on the list for a very long time, and even longer if they end up dropping the rental price. It is the second highest-grossing movie of the entire year, behind only Inside Out 2 from Pixar which made $1.69 billion. Below it is Despicable Me 4 with $961 million. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, its current competition on the list, grossed $422 million and is inside the top 10, a very good performance. I was curious where this landed, and Joker: Folie a Deux, the sequel to the $1 billion-earning original, is down at #20 with $165 million, an utterly spectacular failure on every level.
We’ll check in soon to see how the list shifts from here.
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