Deadpool & Wolverine Obliterates R-Rated Record with $205 Million Opening Weekend, Eighth-Biggest in Box Office History
by Rebecca Rubin
July 28, 2024


Deadpool & Wolverine has been turbocharging the box office. The superhero sequel has collected $205 million in its opening weekend, ranking as the eighth-best debut of all time.

Among the newest installment’s many benchmarks, Deadpool & Wolverine landed by far the biggest start of the year, overtaking Disney’s Pixar sequel Inside Out 2's $155 million debut.

Internationally, Deadpool & Wolverine captured $233.3 million for a staggering global tally of $438 million. After three days of release it is already the sixth-highest grossing of 2024 and, after this weekend, the MCU became the first film franchise ever to cross $30 billion globally.




Last weekend’s champion Twisters tumbled to distant second place.

The disaster epic brought in a still-solid $35.3 million, down 57% from its debut. To date, it has generated $154.9 million in North America and $221 million globally.




At No. 3, Universal and Illumination’s Despicable Me 4 added $14.2 million in its fourth weekend of release. So far, the animated sequel has generated $290.9 million domestically and $677 million worldwide.

Inside Out 2 took fourth place with $8.3 million in its seventh outing, bringing its domestic tally to $613.4 million.

Neon’s horror sleeper hit Longlegs notched the fifth spot with $6.7 million, boosting its North American total to $58 million. It now ranks as Neon’s highest-grossing film of all time.

https://variety.com/2024/film/box-office/box-office-deadpool-wolverine-opening-weekend-record-1236088298/





July 26-28, 2024: Weekend Studio Estimates

1. Deadpool & Wolverine $205,000,000
2. Twisters $35,300,000 / $154,931,140
3. Despicable Me 4 $14,200,000 / $290,972,260
4. Inside Out 2 $8,300,000 / $613,406,731
5. Longlegs $6,765,000 / $58,618,928
6. A Quiet Place: Day One $3,025,000 / $134,229,330
7. Bad Boys: Ride or Die $1,275,000 / $191,742,578
8. The Fabulous Four $1,010,614
9. Fly Me to the Moon $750,000 / $19,110,032
10. Raayan $453,000

It Ends With Us Scores $50 Million Opening Weekend, Borderlands Flops with $8.8 Million
by Rebecca Rubin
Aug. 11, 2024


Colleen Hoover’s literary sensation It Ends With Us is now a box office smash. A film adaptation of her 2016 novel, starring Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni (who also directed), has collected a stellar $50 million from 3,611 North American venues in its opening weekend.

It Ends With Us took in $30 million internationally for an $80 million global start. It’s a huge win for the movie, which Sony Pictures and Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studios co-financed for $25 million.

Critics were mixed but audiences have responded enthusiastically to the PG-13 romantic drama, which notched an “A-” on CinemaScore.





It Ends With Us just missed the No. 1 spot with D, starring Lively’s husband Ryan Reynolds, adding $54.2 million from 4,330 screens in its third weekend of release.

This is the first time in the month of August (a traditionally slow time for multiplexes) that two films have grossed $50 million in the same weekend. It’s also the first time in 34 years that a married couple had their films top the domestic box office — since Bruce Willis in Die Hard 2 and Demi Moore in Ghost notched the No. 1 and No. 2 spot in 1990.

Deadpool & Wolverine has topped the box office for three consecutive weekends and generated a mammoth $494.3 million domestically and $1.029 billion globally to date. In the coming days, the Marvel superhero adventure will surpass 2019’s Joker ($1.07 billion) as the highest grossing R-rated movie in history.





This weekend’s other new release, Lionsgate’s video game adaptation Borderlands with Cate Blanchett, misfired with $8.8 million from 3,125 theaters to start.

It landed in fourth place behind Twisters, which added $15.4 million from 3,664 locations in its fourth outing. Universal’s disaster epic has grossed $222 million domestically and $310 million worldwide.

Borderlands fared even worse at the overseas box office with $7.7 million, bringing its global total to an embarrassing $16.5 million.





Elsewhere, Neon’s low-budget horror film Cuckoo brought in $3 million from 1,503 theaters in its first weekend on the big screen.

Hunter Schafer stars in the movie as a teenager who moves to the German Alps to live with her father but becomes disturbed by strange occurrences. It cost $7 million to produce.





In limited release, A24’s drama Sing Sing added $226,965 while playing on 39 screens across major U.S. markets.

The film — starring newly minted Oscar nominee Colman Domingo, and based on the real Rehabilitation Through the Arts program at Sing Sing maximum security prison — will continue to expand its screen count throughout August.

https://variety.com/2024/film/box-office/box-office-it-ends-with-us-beats-exectations-borderlands-flops-1236103106/





August 9-11, 2024: Weekend Studio Estimates

1. Deadpool & Wolverine $53,774,969 / $493,931,351
2. It Ends with Us $50,016,652
3. Twisters $15,001,575 / $222,273,155
4. Borderlands $8,601,572
5. Despicable Me 4 $7,983,035 / $330,114,740
6. Trap $6,651,068 / $28,602,371
7. Inside Out 2 $4,840,283 / $636,341,231
8. Harold and the Purple Crayon $3,065,926 / $12,854,729
9. Cuckoo $3,030,437
10. Longlegs $1,951,154 / $71,203,059

I read Blake Lively cameos in Deadpool and Wolverine. When was the last time someone was in the number one and two movie at the box office concurrently?

I read Blake Lively cameos in Deadpool and Wolverine. When was the last time someone was in the number one and two movie at the box office concurrently?

I don't know if it was the last time but I was able to track down a March 1998 weekend when Titanic was number one and The Man In The Iron Mask was number two, both with Leonardo DiCaprio.