By Anthony D'Alessandro
Deadpool & Wolverine Crosses $825M+ In 2 Weeks, While Trap Movie Opens With $15M+ At Box Office
Editorial Director/Box Office Editor
SUNDAY AM WRITETHRU: With $395.5M, Deadpool & Wolverine is the highest-grossing R-rated film ever at the domestic box office, surpassing Passion of the Christ ($370.7M) and the previous two Deadpools this weekend (Deadpool at $363M and Deadpool 2 at $324.6M). This is after a phenomenal $97M second weekend, -54%, the 8th-best second weekend ever, ahead of Barbie's $93M second frame a year ago, but also the fifth-best second frame ever for an MCU film. D&W is currently not expected to break the $100M mark. Worldwide gross is $824.1M; this film will go to a billion even without Russia. The final industry projection for the Shawn Levy-directed, Ryan Reynolds-Hugh Jackman-starrer is half a billion in the U.S.
It’s funny how even in boom times the entertainment media can be cynical and say that few films do well at the box office and that movie theaters are still broken. That’s bullshit: this was the third-highest grossing weekend of the year at the box office with an estimated $173M, behind last weekend’s $284.8M D&W headliner and Inside Out 2’s June 14-16 weekend ($213.9M), according to Box Office Mojo . Clearly, we now have a post-strike inventory that will maintain some turnstile momentum. Outside of D&W’s success, we had Twisters coming in second with a $22.6M third weekend and barreling toward $200M stateside, and an M. Night Shyamalan thriller in Trap that failed to collapse and missed its projections with a $15.6M opening. Twisters is not only the tornado movie we haven't seen in a while, but it also has a lot of heart in Daisy Edgar-Jones and a handsome guy in Glen Powell.
