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Posted August 5, 2024 by Mike Tyrkus in News
 
 

Box-Office Weekend: Deadpool & Wolverine #1 2x

For a second consecutive week, Deadpool & Wolverine held the top spot of the box-office weekend; holding on this week by a margin of $74.3 million.

"Deadpool & Wolverine" posterIn its second weekend of release, Deadpool & Wolverine remained on top of the top ten over the box-office weekend bringing in $97.0 million over the last three days. This raises the film’s overall total to $395.6 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. Meanwhile, Twisters held onto second place with $22.7 million earned over the weekend for Universal Pictures, bringing the film’s three-week total to $195.6 million. The Warner Bros. debut, Trap landed in third place with $15.6 million. This pushed Despicable Me 4 to fourth place when it added $11.3 million to bring its five-week total to $314.0 million for Universal Pictures. The Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures offering Inside Out 2 meanwhile fell to fifth place where it added $6.7 million, raising its eight-week tally to $626.9 million.

Debuting in sixth place was the Columbia Pictures product Harold and the Purple Crayon with $6.0 million. Meanwhile, Longlegs dropped from fifth- to seventh-place where it brought in $4.1 million in its fourth weekend of release to lift its overall total to $66.9 million. The third debut of the weekend, Atlas Distribution Company’s The Firing Squad landed in eighth place with $1.6 million over the weekend. In its sixth weekend of release, Paramount Pictures’ A Quiet Place: Day One added $1.4 million, which landed it in ninth place and raised its overall total to $137.4 million. Finally, the Fathom Event release of Ponyo in conjunction with Studio Ghibli Fest 2024 took in $800,000 over the weekend, which was sufficient enough to land the film in tenth place.

Four films were forced from the box-office weekend as last weekend’s seventh- thru tenth-place films were replaced this weekend by four new entries. After nine weeks, Bad Boys: Ride or Die drops from the top ten leaving Sony Pictures Releasing $192.9 million richer. In two weeks, Bleecker Street Media enjoyed a $2.3 million return on The Fabulous Four. Meanwhile, Columbia Pictures saw $20.0 million generated over the last four weeks by Fly Me to the Moon. Finally, after one week in release, Raayan succeeded in bringing in $453,000 before dropping from the top ten.

Weekend Box Office (August 2nd – August 4th)

    1. Deadpool & Wolverine…$97.0 Million
    2. Twisters…$22.7 Million
    3. Trap…$15.6 Million
    4. Despicable Me 4…$11.3 Million
    5. Inside Out 2…$6.7 Million
    6. Harold and the Purple Crayon…$6.0 Million
    7. Longlegs…$4.1 Million
    8. The Firing Squad…$1.6 Million
    9. A Quiet Place: Day One…$1.4 Million
    10. Ponyo…$800,000
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.