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Box-Office Weekend: Deadpool & Wolverine #1

Mike Tyrkus
Box Office Weekend

While Twisters claimed the top spot of the weekend box-office seven days ago, it was handily displaced this weekend by newcomer Deadpool & Wolverine by the not-so-tiny sum of $169.7 million.

Over the course of its first weekend in release, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures’ Deadpool & Wolverine dominated the box-office top ten with a debut of $205.0 million. This was far more than enough to take first place away from Universal Pictures’ Twisters which brought in only $35.3 million in its second week of release and dropped to second place as a result. Still, the film boasts a two-week tally of $154.9 million for the studio. Similarly dropping a spot this weekend was Despicable Me 4 which landed in third place with $14.2 million. This gives the Universal Pictures product a four-week total of $291.0 million. Meanwhile, Inside Out 2 fell from third- to fifth-place this weekend with $8.3 million, bringing the film’s seven-week total to $613.4 million for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. After landing in fourth place last weekend, Longlegs dropped to fifth this weekend where it brought in $6.8 million, raising its three-wee total to $58.6 million.

In its fifth weekend of release, A Quiet Place: Day One fell a spot to sixth place this weekend where it brought in $3.0 million, giving the Paramount Pictures product an overall total of $134.2 million to date. Holding its ground and remaining in seventh place this weekend, the Sony Pictures Releasing offering Bad Boys: Ride or Die took in $1.3 million to lift its eight-week total to $191.7 million for the studio. Bleecker Street Media’s The Fabulous Four made its debut in the eighth spot where it made $1.0 million over its first weekend in release. After claiming sixth place last weekend, Fly Me to the Moon fell three spots to claim ninth place for Columbia Pictures with $750,000. This gives the film a three-week total of $19.1 million. Finally, Prime Media Pictures enjoyed the debut of Rayan in the tenth spot of this weekend’s countdown where it brought in $453,000 for the studio.

Yet again, three films were forced from the top ten of the weekend box office as last weekend’s eighth-, ninth-, and tenth-place films were all pushed from this week’s list. After debuting in the eight spot last weekend, Bad Newz leaves the top ten with a one-week total of $1.1 million. Meanwhile, after four weeks in release, last weekend’s ninth-place film, MaXXXine departs the top ten leaving A24 $14.7 million richer. Finally, after crawling back into the top ten last weekend, Focus Features’ The Bikeriders couldn’t repeat the feat this weekend, instead settling for a six-week total of $21.7 million.

Weekend Box Office (July 26th – July 28th)

    1. Deadpool & Wolverine…$205.0 Million
    2. Twisters…$35.3 Million
    3. Despicable Me 4…$14.2 Million
    4. Inside Out 2…$8.3 Million
    5. Longlegs…$6.8 Million
    6. A Quiet Place: Day One…$3.0 Million
    7. Bad Boys: Ride or Die…$1.3 Million
    8. The Fabulous Four…$1.0 Million
    9. Fly Me to the Moon…$750,000
    10. Raayan…$453,000

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.

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