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Box Office: 'Deadpool' Beats 'Reagan,' 'AfrAId' Opening Days

Box Office: 'Deadpool' Beats 'Reagan,' 'AfrAId' Opening Days

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Summer always gets colder toward the end. Even in its sixth weekend, Disney’s “Deadpool & Wolverine” remains at the top of the domestic charts, while theaters are taking in a slate of underperforming new releases, including Dennis Quaid’s presidential biopic “Reagan” and the Blumhouse horror film “Afraid.”

The Marvel Studios production earned another $3.6 million on Friday, down about 26% from its daily total a week ago. Aside from a weekend that saw it cede the No. 1 spot to the opening frame of “Alien: Romulus,” “Deadpool & Wolverine” has dominated for more than a month now. Its domestic gross is expected to top $600 million in the coming days — a milestone only 15 other releases have ever achieved.

The superhero team-up film comes ahead of “Afraid,” released by Sony in 3,003 locations. The sci-fi thriller, which follows John Cho and Katherine Waterston as a married couple whose AI-enabled household begins attacking their family, earned $1.3 million during its opening day and previews. Those aren’t breakout numbers for the Chris Weitz-directed film, but Blumhouse used its typically lean economics to crank out this PG-13 film on a production budget of $12 million. So even with an opening as quiet as this one, “Afraid” doesn’t have a mind-boggling fight on its hands. Reviews have been poor and audiences have been cold, too (a C+ grade from research firm Cinema Score), but hey, this is your average horror release.

“Afraid” is certainly doing better than most of the weekend’s other national releases, none of which seemed like top priorities for critics to review as the fall film festival season gets underway. Lionsgate’s “1992,” a Tyrese Gibson vehicle that follows a store owner surviving the L.A. riots, brought in an estimated $460,000 opening day from 875 locations. Audiences are loving it, earning an A- Cinema Score, and reviews have been positive.