Mumbai, Oct. 20 -- Angelina Jolie starrer Maleficent: Mistress of Evil seems too have begun its box office journey on a decent note as it beat Joaquin Phoenix's Joker and the newly-released Zombieland: Double Tap in the US. As per reports, Maleficent 2 nowhere touched the first movie's opening collection as it raked in a mediocre USD 12 million on Friday in the US. The Angelina Jolie, Michelle Pfeiffer and Elle Fanning fantasy, came to the theatres five years later and its business was well below the 2014 Maleficent's opening collection of USD 24.3 million.

According to a report in Forbes, the film is expected to amass a total of USD 38 million over the weekend, meaning it's going to need a big overseas assist to justify the USD 185 mill...