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Posted September 1, 2024 by Mike Tyrkus in News
 
 

Box-Office Weekend: Deadpool & Wolverine Repeat

After reclaiming the top spot of the box-office weekend seven days ago, Deadpool & Wolverine did not let up and held onto the number-one slot this weekend by a $5.9 margin.

"Deadpool & Wolverine" posterIn its sixth week of release, Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures’ Deadpool & Wolverine had already brought in $599.5 million for the studio and managed to remain atop the box-office weekend top ten for s second straight week. Meanwhile, Alien: Romulus also held onto its position from last weekend with $9.3 million earned over the last three days, giving the film a three-week tally of $88.8 million for the second offering from Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures in this week’s top ten. With $7.42 million, It Ends with Us held onto third place Sony Pictures Releasing while bringing its four-week total up to $133.7 million. The first debut of the weekend, the biopic Reagan, landed in fourth place with $7.4 million. Last weekend’s sixth-place film, Twisters, climbed into fifth place this weekend, adding $7.2 million to raise its seven-week tally to $258 million for Universal Pictures.

Dropping two spots and landing in sixth place was Blink Twice where it brought in $4.7 million, lifting it two-week total to $15.3 million. Affirm Films saw The Forge drop from fifth- to seventh-place this weekend. The film took in $4.6 million over the weekend to give it a two-week total of $14.3 million. In its ninth weekend of release, the Universal Pictures product Despicable Me 4 crept up a spot to claim eighth-place this weekend with $4.1 million, giving the film a nine-week total of $354.1 million. Sony Pictures Releasing saw Afraid debut in ninth place with $3.7 million this weekend. Finally, Inside Out 2 held steady in tenth place this weekend where it added $2.8 million, giving the Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures release a twelve-week total of $650 million.

Two films from last weekend’s top ten were forced out this weekend as both the seventh- and eighth-place films couldn’t crack to this weekend’s list. After three weeks in release, the Fathom Events fifteenth anniversary showings of Coraline managed to generate a total of $28.9 million. Meanwhile, after only two weeks in release, the Lionsgate Films remake of The Crow could only scare up a total of $8.1 million.

Weekend Box Office (August 30th – September 1st)

    1. Deadpool & Wolverine…$15.2 Million
    2. Alien: Romulus…$9.3 Million
    3. It Ends with Us…$7.42 Million
    4. Reagan…$7.4 Million
    5. Twisters…$7.2 Million
    6. Blink Twice…$4.7 Million
    7. The Forge…$4.6 Million
    8. Despicable Me 4…$4.1 Million
    9. Afraid…$3.7 Million
    10. Inside Out 2…$2.8 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.