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Posted August 11, 2024 by Mike Tyrkus in News
 
 

Box-Office Weekend: Deadpool & Wolverine 3x

Deadpool & Wolverine enjoyed another stay at the top of the box-office weekend as the film managed to hold the top spot for a third consecutive week.

"Deadpool & Wolverine" posterWith $54.2 million earned over the weekend, Deadpool & Wolverine held the number one spot of the top ten by a margin of $4.2 million. This gives the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures product an overall total of $494.3 million. Meanwhile, Sony Pictures Releasing saw It Ends with Us debut in second place this weekend where it brought in $50.0 million for the studio. Last weekend’s second-place film, Universal Pictures’ Twisters dropped to third place where it brought in $15.0 million this weekend, lifting its four-week total to $222.3 million. In fourth place, the Lionsgate Films offering Borderlands debuted with $8.8 million to show for its first few days in release. All of this movement pushed Despicable Me 4 down a spot to a fifth-place finish this weekend with $8.0 million, giving the Universal Pictures production a six-week tally of $330.1 million.

Falling three spots to land in sixth-place this weekend was Warner Bros.’ Trap which took in $6.7 million to bring the film’s two-week total to $28.7 million. Elsewhere, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures saw Inside Out 2 drop two spots to land in seventh this weekend where it added $5.0 million to raise its nine-week tally to $636.5 million. Also losing two spots was the Columbia Pictures release Harold and the Purple Crayon which finished in eighth-place with $3.1 million over the weekend. This brings the film’s two-week total to $12.9 million. Cuckoo enjoyed a debut in the top ten in the ninth spot where it took in $3.0 million in its first weekend of release. Finally, longlegs fell three spots to claim the tenth spot this weekend with $2.0 million, giving the film a five-week total of $71.3 million.

Three films were thrust from the top ten this weekend as last week’s eighth- through tenth-place finishers all failed to make this weekend’s list. After two weeks in release, the Atlas Distribution Company product The Firing Squad leaves the top ten after claiming eighth-place last weekend after bringing in a total of $1.6 million. Meanwhile, A Quiet Place: Day One has made Paramount Pictures $138.6 million over the last seven weeks, despite not cracking the top ten this weekend. Finally, after breaking into the top ten last weekend, the re-release of Ponyo vanished completely this weekend.

Weekend Box Office (August 9th – August 11th)

    1. Deadpool & Wolverine…$54.2 Million
    2. It Ends with Us…$50.0 Million
    3. Twisters…$15.0 Million
    4. Borderlands…$8.8 Million
    5. Despicable Me 4…$8.0 Million
    6. Trap…$6.7 Million
    7. Inside Out 2…$5.0 Million
    8. Harold and the Purple Crayon…$3.1 Million
    9. Cuckoo…$3.0 Million
    10. Longlegs…$2.0 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.