Paramount $28M production Smile 2 is in shape with a $23m opening after a $9.4M friday and B CinemaScore.
Smile 2 social media reach across Facebook, TikTok X, Instagram, Youtube counted 154.4M followers per analytics corp Relish Mix before opening with notches ahead of Saw X 134M and The Nun 11 149.8M.
The repost rate on trailers for Smile 2 was 11 to 1 which show this movie was destined for a $20M opening.
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Paramount Smile franchise is keeping up its staying power as Smile 2 is set to open to $22 million after an $8.8M Friday that include previews.
The pic is booked at 3,610 theaters.
Moving into top five meanwhile is A24 romance drama We Live in Time with around $1.75M today.
$4.3M for weekend and running total of $4.6M by EOD Sunay and 955 theaters.
Dream Works Animation and Universal The Wild Robot would bot break down remaining in second place in Weekend 4 at 3,820 screen with a $2.65M Friday.
$10M three day -29% and total of %101.6M running.
DWA second film after Kung Fu Panda 4 to reach the century mark this year.
Cineverse Terrifier 3 booked at 2,762 screen is looking a second Friday of $2.5M and second weekend between 87.5-$8M -58%.
At the high end the 10 day total is $34.9M.
Presale show high teen for Smile 2 at this weekend domestic box office Paramount seques goes spark.
Smile 2 has all the PLF screen this weekend.
The Imax venues live with Warner Bros Joker Folie a Deux.
Smile 2 is certified fresh with 85% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes and PotTrak exits from fan are at 3 1/2 stars and 71% positive.
Latino and Hispanic fans were strong and 36% with Caucasians showing up at 40%.
Asian Americans at 7$ and Black are 11%.
Smile 2 sequel opens on 3,619 screens. Smile Parker Finn is back for sequel which cost $28M.
The film stars Aladdin Naomi Scott as pop star sees grinning people.
A24 expansion of We Live in Time saw $500,000 last night in past as it moves to 955 theaters this weekend.
The Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh romance drama get a 98% Rotten Tomatoes audience score.
The John Crowley directed title currently counts $820K first weekend in five New York City, Los Angeles Cinema getting $225,900
Smile 2 Ending Explained:Does the New Horror Film Set Up a Smile 3?
Does Smile 2 Have a Post Credits Scene?
There are no post credits or mid scenes in the movie.
Though the closing credits do find Cristobal Tapia de Veer huge score going into a surreal experimental area, overlaying music with screaming and agony.
Does Smile 2 Set up Smile 3?
Skye killed herself in front of thousands of people.
there is lot of chance for who the curse could be inside next, established characters in Smile 2 Like Elizabeth. music exec Darius or Skye assistant Joshua, backup dancer and crew.
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Going back to first movie release Parker Finn has been coy when asked in interviews over witness could carry the curse.
Smile 2 demand that question be answered in Smile 3.
Could we see thousands of people who infected spreading the curse out more and more.
Smile 2 Reviews
Smile 2 picks up right where the first film left off.
First film those with this franchise curse can save themselves if they kill someone in front of witness before curse instead forces them to kill themself in presence of other.
Police Office Joel attempts to pass the curse to dangerous criminal by murdering that guy odious brother in front of him.
It goes wrong and within minutes intended witness is dead after Joel fires back at him. when he is shot at and joel is dead as well hit by car he tries to escape.
the curse has passed to second witness joel did not realize was there during dealer lewis.
Smile 2 Ending Explained
Smile 2 last act takes wild chance leading into final scene that is memorable but raises some question marks about what transpired leading up to it.
At one point terrified vision of all of her backup dancers inside her home attacking her with same haunting smile.
Skye hits her head. She wake up in hospital with mother manager. Elizabeth by her side telling her she suffered a concussion.
Elizabeth reveals she intends for sky to still start her planned tour the next night insisting her daughter has burnt up too much good will and will run her career.
Sky desire nothing to do with trip but argument is halted when Elizabeth start smiling creepily smashes a mirror and proceeds to slice herself up with piece of glass including stabbing herself in eye.
Skye start to run from room only to look down ans see he is one holding
a bloody broken shard of mirror and see her mother dead look murdered by skye herself.
Skye makes a run for it.
When she is intercepted in lobby and people believe the blood she is covered in is hers.
She manage to feign injury in order to gain a security guard pistol holding everyone off.
On street she runs into Gemma who she would reconciled earlier in movie.
Geem not knowing the scenario seeing Skye insistence decide to support her escape.
Skye taking someone vehicle a gunpoint.
In the car skye contacts Morris and ER nurse who had reached out to her having discovered she was suffering the same curse his brother had died from.
Morris thinks a way to stop the curse and entity behind it is for sky to die before cane cause her death.
He believes that even if her death is brief one before Morris amd medically resuscitates her.
The entity will be left without host during that period and Skye will be saved and no one will be cursed.
Skye shocked to see a phone call from Gemma.
Old Pizza Hut Morris has prepared for Skye death in a mega freezer intending to use cold to fend off brain death to keep her dead longer to give mor time for entity to leave.
He has syringe ready to inject her to stop her heart when Morris move away before they start Skye is attacked by vision of herself appearing bloody and injured like she did in aftermath of car crash.
She fights her doppelganger Skye snatch the syringe and inject herself in neck believing she has beaten the entity suddenly she is not even holding the syringe as doppelganger mocks her.
Everything changes around skye who finds herself dressed in her stage outfit inside the pod she was rehearsing with earlier to start her concert.
She stumbles out of pod and she is now onstage at arena with mega crowd clapping for her.
Amongst the audience is Elizabeth looking uninjured.
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The confused Skye then see herself start now standing across from her onstage this time dressed same as she is in her concert dress.
The doppelganger lift her shirt announcing the mega scar from car accident that Skye has on her stomach and then tears the scar open with her hands as version of the massive Monstrocity from Rose saw entity in first film before she died rips out of the doppelganger and stomps over a Skye.
It pulls her mouth open.
Skye has collapsed on stage as crowd gasps with concern.
She stumble to her feet and stand up straight with her back to crowd and everyone cheers is rapid recovery until she slowly turns and smile on her face.
We watch crowd reaction as we listen the noise of Skye is doing and its thumps and squishes and then see she has hammered her microphone into her eye as she drops dead on stage with smile still upon her lips.
