"Deadpool & Wolverine" Returns to #1 Spot as "The Crow" Reboot Flops

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Deadpool & Wolverine Returns to No. 1 in Fifth Weekend as The Crow Bombs and Blink Twice Stumbles
by Rebecca Rubin
Aug. 25, 2024


After a blip that allowed another film to sell some tickets, Deadpool & Wolverine returned to the top of box office charts in its fifth weekend of release.

Marvel’s superhero adventure towered over the (albeit anemic) competition as two newcomers, The Crow and Blink Twice, misfired in their debuts.




Director Zoe Kravitz’s twisted thriller Blink Twice led among new releases but faltered in fourth place with $7.3 million from 3,067 theaters.

Meanwhile, Lionsgate’s R-rated reboot of The Crow, starring Bill Skarsgård as a murdered musician who is resurrected to avenge the deaths of himself and his fiancée, bombed with $4.6 million from 2,752 theaters to open in eighth place.


Critics were fonder of Blink Twice compared to The Crow, as the former landed a 79% on Rotten Tomatoes while the latter was saddled with a 20% “rotten” score. Audiences were mixed, giving both films a “B-” grade on CinemaScore.

So, it remains to be seen how word-of-mouth will affect the rest of their theatrical runs.




Last weekend’s champion Alien: Romulus dropped to second place with $16.2 million from 3,915 theaters in its sophomore outing. Those ticket sales mark a 62% decline from opening weekend.

So far, the newest chapter in Disney and 20th Century’s sci-fi horror saga has collected $72.6 million domestically and $225 million worldwide.




It Ends with Us, too, paced ahead of Blink Twice and The Crow as the adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s literary sensation secured the No. 3 spot with $11.8 million from 3,839 venues.

After three weekends of release, It Ends with Us has amassed a stellar $120.8 million in North America and $240 million globally.




Biblical drama The Forge rounded out the top five with $6.6 million from 1,818 locations over the weekend. The faith-based movie, backed by Affirm Films and released by Sony, has been embraced by audiences, who awarded “The Forge” an “A+” on CinemaScore.

Directed Alex Kendrick, the spinoff to the director’s 2015 feature War Room follows a directionless high school graduate named Isaiah, who gets a push to start making better life decisions. It cost $5 million.

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August 23-25, 2024: Weekend Studio Estimates

1. Deadpool & Wolverine $18,310,240 / $577,213,606
2. Alien: Romulus $16,364,012 / $72,803,395
3. It Ends with Us $11,642,437 / $120,616,514
4. Blink Twice $7,301,894
5. The Forge $6,652,671
6. Twisters $6,103,515 / $248,573,990
7. Coraline (2009) $5,038,976 / $24,105,063
8. The Crow $4,644,666
9. Despicable Me 4 $4,249,910 / $348,129,650
10. Inside Out 2 $2,038,801 / $646,249,915

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Why The Crow Bombed At The Box Office

The remake of "The Crow" looks likely to go down as one of 2024's biggest box office bombs, and here are all the reasons why that happened.

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Deadpool & Wolverine Rules Labor Day Weekend
by Erik Childress
September 2, 2024


One of the leaders of the summer is still leading. Deadpool & Wolverine grossed $18.8 million over the holiday and, in the process, crossed the $600 million line — $603.8 million, to be precise — to spend its fifth week at No. 1 through six weeks.

That makes it the first film to spend as many as five weeks at No. 1 since Avatar: The Way of Water in 2022-23.

Deadpool & Wolverine is now the 16th film to gross over $600 million, and it has also moved into the top 25 films of all time worldwide (24th to be precise) with $1.258 billion.






Hanging on to second place again this week is Alien: Romulus, making $11.5 million over the holiday. That bring its 18-day total to an estimated $90.9 million.

Worldwide the film has passed $283 million and is a success for Fox and Disney.






Third place goes to Reagan with Dennis Quaid in the titular role.

The film has been met with low approval from critics and the production cost was reportedly $25 million.






Twisters moved back up to fourth place this week, adding $9.5 million to its impressive domestic run.

The fifth-highest grossing film of the year is up to over $260 million here at home and a still disappointing $358 million worldwide, as it just crossed $100 million in international territories.






The biggest winner of August and one of the biggest of the summer is It Ends with Us from Sony. It finished fifth through Monday with $9.5 million, bringing its domestic total to $135.8 million.

The film is over $283 million worldwide but on nearly a fourth of its budget ($25 million), this is the fourth most profitable film of the summer and the fifth most profitable of the entire year to date.






AfrAId, the latest Blumhouse cautionary technology tale from About a Boy director Chris Weitz, opened with only $4.4 million.

This is one of those rare misfires for Blumhouse, even with just a $12 million budget.






Rounding out the top 10, last week’s The Forge and Blink Twice swapped positions, with the former grossing $6.3 million and the latter $6.1 million.

That brings their totals, respectively, to $16.0 & $16.7 million. Zoe Kravitz’s film is only about halfway to break itself even, while The Forge should be able to count itself in profit with its $5 million budget.



Two more of the most profitable films of the year finish the list with Despicable Me 4 now at $355.6 million domestic ($913 million worldwide) and the biggest film of the year, Inside Out 2, on the verge of passing Jurassic World on the all-time list with $651 million domestic and $1.6665 billion worldwide, passing 2019’s The Lion King for ninth place.

Let’s also hear it for Coraline, which grossed another $4 million over the holiday, bringing its 15th Anniversary re-release total to over $30 million.






The Crow fell out of the top 10 in just its second weekend, grossing only $2.3 million through the holiday. The $50 million production has grossed just $8.6 million domestically.

Lionsgate also released the Tyrese Gibson/Ray Liotta heist film 1992 into 875 theaters, where it grossed $1.7 million.

Bleecker Street did not do much better with the Casey Affleck sci-fi film about a sad astronaut losing his mind — Slingshot — which made just $573,000 in 845 theaters for just a $574 per-theater average from Fri-Sun.



Last week, Strange Darling got some attention, especially from critics and horror fans. This week it dropped 55% to $518,000, but it still boasts a total of $2.5 million.

Finally, Edgar Wright’s Shaun of the Dead got a 20th Anniversary re-release and grossed $600,000 in only 133 theaters.

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August 30 - September 2, 2024: Weekend Studio Estimates

1. Deadpool & Wolverine $19,419,000 / $603,760,117
2. Alien: Romulus $11,172,000 / $90,612,631
3. Reagan $10,000,760
4. Twisters $9,561,000 / $260,432,935
5. It Ends with Us $9,501,000 / $135,794,800
6. The Forge $6,325,000 / $16,038,273
7. Blink Twice $6,124,000 / $16,777,550
8. Despicable Me 4 $5,550,000 / $355,580,490
9. AfrAId $4,415,000
10. Coraline (2009) $4,015,511 / $30,267,631