Box Office Weekend: Deadpool Rides High for Second Week

Considering its big opening last week and critical praise, there was not much room for doubt that Deadpool would score big once again. Pulling in an estimated $55 million, it finished head and shoulders over the competition, keeping Kung Fu Panda 3 in second place with an estimated $12.5 million. While still not the success of the previous films, Kung Fu Panda 3 has still pulled in $117.1 million domestically and counting…which, except for Star Wars: The Force Awakens (eighth place, estimated $3.8 million) and The Revenant (ninth place, estimated $3.8 million), it is the fourth highest grossing film currently in the top ten.

Three new films graced the top ten, the most successful of which was Risen (estimated $11.8 million). Gaining better-than-average critical praise than most faith-based films, it still has a rocky financial start with its heftier-than-average $20 million budget. The Witch, on the other hand, is gaining surprisingly high critical praise for a horror film, which may or may not be profitable. With its budget unreleased, its estimated $8.7 million could still be quite impressive, considering the budgets of most horror films. Race, the story of racer Jesse Owens in the 1936 Olympics, also did not release its budget numbers, but with an estimated $7.3 million (and a sixth-place finish behind How to Be Single and its estimated $8.2 million), it may need an extra burst of speed if it is going to cross the finish line with a profit.

Zoolander 2 brought in an estimated $5.5 million, but it is more than certain that even with no reported budget, its $23.7 million domestic total is a flop in the making. And speaking of which, despite good reviews, the Coen Brothers failed to make Hail, Caesar! a compelling enough film for audiences; with an estimated $2.6 million and little to speak of in foreign dollars, it seems unlikely to break even before the home video market.

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When not failing to write novels and screenplays, box-office guru Seth writes humorous comedy tracks for films under the name "The One Man Band" that can be found at Rifftrax.com. Although, he has recently succeeded in writing the novella "Jack Alan and the Case of the Not-Exactly Rocket Scientists," available as an eBook on Amazon. He is also the English voice of Zak in "Zak McKracken: Between Time and Space."

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