Blake Scratches & Claws but It Ends With Husband Beating Wife by a Baby Knife: Weekend Box Office Results (Aug. 9-11)
With another
$54.1M in the bank,
Deadpool & Wolverine is this close to passing the
$500M milestone. As it stands now Disney will just have to
settle for
$494.3M after 3 weeks. The
$54.1M is the
12th best third weekend ever and
6th in theCI. It's just ahead of
Barbie's $53M from last August. It wasn't enough to topple Disney's own
Inside Out 2's $57.5M, which is the
8th best. However, Inside Out 2 had a running total of "only"
$469.4M after three weekends to
Deadpool & Wolverine's aforementioned
$494.3M. So the Post
Endgame MCU flick is actually showing stronger legs.
And we can't bury the lede anymore anymore:
Deadpool & Wolverine has made
$1B at the worldwide box office. It's the
11th film in the MCU to achieve the feat. It sits just $100 million behind
Captain Marvel's $1.1B.
Not to be outdone by her husband was Blake Lively, AKA Mrs. Reynolds,
It Ends with Us raking in and unbelievable
$50M. 3 weeks ago I saw this PAWG at work reading this book. I asked her what she was reading and it was
It Ends with Us. She was like "All my friends are reading it." When I saw her the next day she had already finished it and I was like, "So how was it?" She was disappointed by the ending.
So The other day we were talking and she had brought up that this movie was going to be in the theaters this weekend and I was like "oh you know maybe the ending will be better in the movie." And I'm about to ask her if she wants to go and see it with your boy. But she had mentioned how she has a boyfriend for the first time.
But I will not let this deter me. Come hell or high water, I will be pawging with this girl like Tyrese Haliburton at the Olympics. That's word to @pawglife /
@Milk Man.
In any event, this movie got in
A- Cinemascore, which surprised me. I would have thought it would have got a straight
A or an
A+. Maybe the ending was not quite as satisfying to the audience who graded it. Nevertheless, it's the
10th best opening of the year and
14th overall.
It's the 22nd highest grossing movie released this year already outpacing
Argylle's $45.2M and about to blow past
Challengers' $50.1M.
3rd place belonged to
Twisters with
$15M. There have only been five movies that have made $200M dollars this year;
Twisters is one of them with
$222.2M. They wrangle tornadoes and they wrangle hundreds of millions of dollars.
We have another new entry in the top five, this time it's
Borderlands, opening in fourth place with a putrid
$8.8M.
That's despite a cast that includes Kevin Hart, Jack Black (these two were in the
Jumanji movies together) Kate Blanchett, Jamie Lee Curtis and a $110M+ production budget.
All of that gets you
$8.8M on opening weekend, a
D+ Cinemascore and a
4.4 on IMDb.
Despicable Me 4 rounded out the top five with
$8M in its sixth weekend. It's also available to rent on pvod -- that's premium video on demand. With
$330.1M and counting, it just outgrossed
Oppenheimer's $329.8M. what's the connection? Both movies were given $100M production budgets and distributed by Universal. Gru and the Minions are IP and well known, so you would say that they should have the advantage but Christopher Nolan is also really well known.
Notables
Inside Out 2 is the
11th highest grossing movie at the domestic box office with
$636.4M, moving past
Barbie's $636.2M.
Cuckoo, Neon's other R-rated horror movie this summer, opened to
$3M. It got the same
C+ Cinemascore as
Longlegs, neon's other R-rated horror movie this summer.
Speaking of which
Longlegs passed the $70M milestone. With another
$2M, It's up to
$71.2M -- the 19th best total of the year. The
$72.4M of
Mean Girls is up next.
The Top Ten
Rank | LW | Movie | Gross | %± LW | Theaters | Total Gross | Weeks | Distributor |
1 | 1 | Deadpool & Wolverine | $54,175,000 | -44% | 4,330 | $494,331,382 | 3 | Disney |
2 | - | It Ends with Us | $50,000,000 | - | 3,611 | $50,000,000 | 1 | Sony |
3 | 2 | Twisters | $15,000,000 | -34.2% | 3,664 | $222,271,580 | 4 | Universal |
4 | - | Borderlands | $8,800,000 | - | 3,125 | $8,800,000 | 1 | Lionsgate |
5 | 4 | Despicable Me 4 | $8,000,000 | -30.2% | 3,009 | $330,131,705 | 6 | Universal |
6 | 3 | Trap | $6,725,000 | -56.5% | 3,181 | $28,676,303 | 2 | Warner Bros. |
7 | 5 | Inside Out 2 | $4,956,000 | -27.2% | 2,200 | $636,456,948 | 9 | Disney |
8 | 6 | Harold and the Purple Crayon | $3,100,000 | -48.4% | 3,325 | $12,888,803 | 2 | Columbia |
9 | - | Cuckoo | $3,012,500 | - | 1,503 | $3,012,500 | 1 | Neon |
10 | 7 | Longlegs | $2,000,000 | -52.5% | 1,310 | $71,251,905 | 5 | Neon |