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Posted May 21, 2018 by Mike Tyrkus in News
 
 

Box-Office Weekend: Deadpool 2 Dominates

Deadpool 2 delivered an impressive, though not record-setting, opening weekend of $125 million. Which ultimately makes it the second-largest R-rated opening just behind the original film’s $132.4 million opening in 2016. Internationally, the film brought in an estimated $176.3 million, giving it a worldwide debut of over $300 million.

Deadpool 2 posterDisney and Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War finished in a distant second place with $28.7 million. Still, that was good enough to push the film’s four-week domestic total to $595 million. The film also amassed another $84.4 million internationally to up its global total to $1.81 billion, making it the fourth largest global release of all time, behind just Avatar (2009) and Titanic (1997).

Book Club, starring Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, and Mary Steenburgen brought in $12.5 million its opening weekend in a shrewd example of counterprogramming. Melissa McCarthy’s Life of the Party finished in fourth place with $7.7 million falling dramatically from its $18.5 million showing in second place last week. Similarly, Breaking In dropped to fifth place this week with $6.5 million ($10 million less than it brought in its first week of release).

Show Dogs debuted to the tune of $6 million, which was good enough to last it firmly in the sixth spot in the top ten. Elsewhere, the remake of the Goldie Hawn/Kurt Russell comedy Overboard fell three spots to seventh earning $4.7 million, giving it a three-week total of $37 million. A Quiet Place quietly fell to the eighth spot from fifth last week with $4 million. This gives the horror film an impressive seven-week total of $176.2 million. Rampage dropped to the ninth spot, but still added $1.5 million to its coffers, giving the Dwayne Johnson-led action film a six-week domestic total of $92.4 million.

Finally, Magnolia’s RBG again closes out the top ten this week bringing in $1.3 million, giving it a three-week tally of $3.9 million. The upcoming Memorial Day weekend sees the release of the latest Star Wars feature, Solo: A Star Wars Story from Disney and Lucasfilm, which will undoubtedly finish near the top, if not dominate, next weekend’s box-office results.

Weekend Box Office (May 18th – May 20th)

  1. Deadpool 2…$125.0 Million
  2. Avengers: Infinity War…$28.7 Million
  3. Book Club…$12.5 Million
  4. Life of the Party…$7.7 Million
  5. Breaking In…$6.5 Million
  6. Show Dogs…$6.0 Million
  7. Overboard…$4.7 Million
  8. A Quiet Place…$4.0 Million
  9. Rampage…$1.5 Million
  10. RBG…$1.3 Million
Mike Tyrkus

Mike Tyrkus

Editor in Chief at CinemaNerdz.com
An independent filmmaker, co-writer and director of over a dozen short films, the Editor in Chief of CinemaNerdz.com has spent much of the last three decades as a writer and editor specializing in biographical and critical reference sources in literature and the cinema, beginning in February 1991 reviewing films for his college newspaper. He was a member of the Detroit Film Critics Society, as well as the group's webmaster and one-time President for over a decade until the group ceased to exist. His contributions to film criticism can be found in Magill's Cinema Annual, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever (of which he was the editor for nearly a decade until it too ceased to exist), the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, and the St. James Film Directors Encyclopedia (on which he collaborated with editor Andrew Sarris). He has also appeared on the television program Critic LEE Speaking alongside Lee Thomas of FOX2 and Adam Graham, of The Detroit News. He currently lives in the Detroit area with his wife and their dogs.