The Paramount and Hasbro Entertainment movie had been expected to easily top the domestic chart with $30 million or more. Instead, it came in at $25 million.

Farther down the charts, Universal/Blumhouse’s “Speak No Evil” is beating a pair of horror newcomers with a $5.9 million second weekend, giving the James McAvoy-starring remake a $21.4 million domestic total as it is set to turn a modest theatrical profit.

Optimus Prime and Megatron put up a fight, but in the end, the robots were no match for everyone’s favorite bio-exorcist. After an unusually close box office race, “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” emerged victorious over newcomer Paramount and Hasbro’s animated “Transformers One” to retain the No.