Topline
“Deadpool & Wolverine” took the no. 1 spot at the box office for the third consecutive weekend, bringing in more than $54 million in U.S. theaters, multiple outlets reported Sunday—and the film became the second this year to pass the $1 billion worldwide mark in the process.
Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Gigi Hadid, and Hugh Jackman attend the world premiere of “Deadpool & … [+]
Key Facts
Ryan Reynolds’ “Deadpool & Wolverine” drew in $54.2 million across North America in its third weekend in theaters, bringing its global total to $1.029 billion, Variety reported.
“It Ends With Us,” a film adaption of Colleen Hoover’s novel by the same name starring Reynolds’ wife, Blake Lively, outperformed expectations and took the second spot at the U.S. box office, bringing in about $50 million domestically from Friday to Sunday, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The success of “Deadpool & Wolverine” and “It Ends With Us” brought a unique feat to August, a historically slow month for movies: It is the first time two movies grossed north of $50 million in August, Variety reported.
The third spot at the U.S. box office went to “Twisters,” which brought in $15.4 million in its fourth weekend, and the no. 4 spot went to “Borderlands,” a movie adaptation of a Lionsgate video game that brought in $8.8 million.
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Big Number
2. That’s how many films this year have passed the $1 billion mark, including “Deadpool & Wolverine.” The other was “Inside Out 2,” which hit the milestone in early July, becoming the first film to do so since “Barbie” last summer.
Surprising Fact
It’s rare for a married couple like Reynolds and Lively to take the no. 1 and no. 2 films at the box office simultaneously. The last time was in 1990, when Bruce Willis’ “Die Hard 2” was no. 1 for the weekend and Demi Moore’s “Ghost” took the second spot, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Tangent
Reviews for Lively’s “It Ends With Us” have been mixed its first weekend. It has a 59% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes, with critics saying it was “earnestly performed if marred by clunky dialogue.” Fans seemed to enjoy it more, giving it an average rating of 94% across more than 1,000 reviews. Some worried that the film—which tells the story of a woman overcoming a traumatic childhood but seeing elements of her parents’ relationship in her own—would romanticize domestic violence. Associated Press critic Mark Kennedy said the after-effects of domestic violence on survivors “could have been tightened or highlighted more,” and that it struggled to “balance the realities of domestic violence inside a rom-com and a female-empowerment movie.”
Further Reading
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