Deadpool & Wolverine Make Major Green: Weekend Box Office Results (Jul. 26-28)
Ordinarily, I would do this on Sunday but giv en the magnitude of the release that was
Deadpool & Wolverine, I decided to wait till today when the official numbers for the weekend dropped. I had a feeling that the number would come in a little higher. As of yesterday,
Deadpool & Wolverine was at
$205M, which would have been the 9th biggest opening ever, ahead of
Black Panther's $202M.
Well, it turns out the number was actually
$211.4M. With that,
Deadpool & Wolverine is the sixth biggest opening ever, ahead of
Jurassic World's $208.8M. Ahead of
The Avengers'
$207.4M. And officially ahead of the aforementioned
Black Panther. It's the
4th best opening in the MCU, behind:
- Avengers: Endgame ($357.1M)
- Spider-Man: No Way Home ($260.1M)
- Avengers: Infinity War ($257.6M)
The
$211.4M means Deadpool & Wolverine is already the
4th highest grossing movie of the year, already ahead of the
$196.3M Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire made in its entire run.
It is the biggest opening weekend since fellow MCU entry
Spider-Man: No Way Home's $260.1M in December 2021. Disney produced
Spider-Man: No Way Home. The other four biggest opening weekends belong to the The last two
Avengers and two Disney
Star Wars movies. What that means is that Disney has produced the six biggest opening weekends ever.
Speaking of Disney, it had held the record for biggest weekend in July with
The Lion King's $191.7M in 2019.
Deadpool & Wolverine take the top spot away from Mufasa & Simba.
We can't forget that
Deadpool is a rated R franchise. There was some consternation as to if that would remain the case when Disney purchased Fox. Fortunately that has remained the case with
Deadpool & Wolverine. The number one opening for a rated R movie had been
Deadpool 2 with
$132.4M and before that
Deadpool with
$125.5M. how crazy is that that each successive
Deadpool film has opened as the biggest R-rated movie ever.
All 3 movies got the same
A CinemaScore from audiences. That is just tremendous consistency from this franchise. And provided there is not some 69% drop next weekend, we should be looking at the number one movie of the year.
The MCU is back baby...for the time being...at least commercially.
Twisters had a great second weekend. It only fell by 56.9% en route to
$34.9M.
With
$154.6M, it's already the ninth highest grossing movie of the year, passing
A Quiet Place:Day One's $134.3M.
Despicable Me 4 takes third place with
$14.5M. It's up to
$291.3M which is the second highest total of the year, moving ahead of
Dune: Part Two's $282.1M.
Inside Out 2 finished in fourth place with
$8.6M. It's now up to
$613.7 million. This is a milestone number. It means that
Inside Out 2 is the biggest animated movie ever, domestically, surpassing
Incredibles 2's $608.5M. It's the biggest animated movie ever worldwide as well, with a
$1.5 billion running total, besting
Frozen 2's $1.45 billion. Disney coming for that number one spot this year.
Fifth place belongs to
Longlegs with
$6.7M. It's the number 20 movie of the year with
$58.6M, moving past
Challengers' $50.1M. It also becomes Neons biggest movie, passing
Parasite's $53.3M total.
Notables
MaXXXine fell to 11th place with
$231K. A promising
$6.7M start has only yielded
$14.6M.
The Top Ten
Rank | LW | Movie | Gross | %± LW | Theaters | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor |
1 | - | Deadpool & Wolverine | $211,435,291 | - | 4,210 | $211,435,291 | 1 | Disney |
2 | 1 | Twisters | $34,991,430 | -56.9% | 4,170 | $154,622,570 | 2 | Universal |
3 | 2 | Despicable Me 4 | $14,589,670 | -40.3% | 3,610 | $291,361,930 | 4 | Universa |
4 | 3 | Inside Out 2 | $8,617,451 | -32.8% | 3,150 | $613,724,182 | 7 | Disney |
5 | 4 | Longlegs | $6,779,899 | -43.4% | 2,730 | $58,633,827 | 3 | Neon |
6 | 5 | A Quiet Place: Day One | $3,109,237 | -51.2% | 1,932 | $134,313,567 | 5 | Paramount |
7 | 7 | Bad Boys: Ride or Die | $1,333,004 | -50.2% | 1,006 | $191,800,582 | 8 | Sony |
8 | - | The Fabulous Four | $1,042,021 | - | 1,045 | $1,042,021 | 1 | Bleecker Street Media |
9 | 6 | Fly Me to the Moon | $768,305 | -76.8% | 1,314 | $19,128,337 | 3 | Columbia |
10 | - | Raayan | $453,000 | - | 133 | $453,000 | 1 | Prime Media Pictures |