Like the lone entertainer at a desolate children’s birthday party, “It Chapter Two” and its killer clown effectively took over movie theaters this weekend, making more money than the rest of the top ten movies combined.

The only major newcomer at the box office, “It Chapter Two” sold about $91 million in tickets at domestic theaters Friday through Sunday. It picked up an additional $94 million overseas this weekend, according to the studio.

Those figures are a success for Warner Bros., the film’s distributor, even if they lag behind the record-breaking opening that the first “It” had when it debuted to roughly $120 million in North American ticket sales in 2017. They’re also a welcome jolt for theaters, where last weekend a small group of holdover movies had been jockeying for fumes.

The original “It” followed a group of children haunted by a demonic clown in small-town America in the summer of 1989. The movie’s wide appeal — abetted by its recognizable villain (Bill Skarsgard’s clown, Pennywise) and a “Stranger Things”-like formula, in which kids face supernatural mysteries in the 1980s — was a large factor in 2017 becoming the biggest box office year ever for horror.