Picture Climbs to $97M Record-Making Second Weekend, Hits $824 Million Globally
Twisters approaches $200 million as M. Night Shyamalan’s Trap opens in third place with $15.6 million and Harold and the Purple Crayon bombs with $6M.
Overseas, the Marvel and Disney tentpole earned another $110.5 million for a foreign tally of $428.5 million and $824.1 million.
It achieved several key milestones.
Top-Grossing R-Rated Movie
Marking another major step for star and franchise mastermind Ryan Reynolds, the Deadpool threequel supplanted Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ ($371.1 million) as the top-grossing R-rated movie of all time domestically, not adjusted for inflation.
It also has passed up the entire lifetime runs of the first two Deadpool films, both domestically and globally, after just two weekends in theaters. Deadpool‘s domestic earnings were $363.1 million for a global total of $782.6 worldwide; the second film’s domestic haul was $318.5 million for a worldwide total of $734.5 million.
Between summer wins including Inside Out 2 — which is the top animated film of all time with a running total of $1.56 billion — and Deadpool 3, Disney has become the first studio to cross the $3 billion mark in worldwide ticket sales.
Deadpool & Wolverine, directed by Shawn Levy and co-starring Hugh Jackman, leaps and bounds ahead of the competition this weekend, although Amblin Entertainmen’s Twisters is holding its own.
Twisters, distributed by Universal domestically, dropped 37 percent its third weekend to $22.7 million for a domestic total of $195.6 million.
Trap, starring Josh Hartnett, is opening in third place with an estimated $15.6 million, in line with expectations. Warner Bros. is distributing the thriller, which is battling negative reviews and C+ CinemaScore.
Illumination and Universal’s animated event pic Despicable Me 4 crossed the $300 million mark domestically after earning another $11.3 million for a worldwide total of $752.2 million, while Pixar’s Inside Out 2 followed in fifth place with an estimated $6.7 million for a mega-global haul of $1.55 billion, the best showing of all time for an animated film.
The boom at the family box office didn’t apply to Sony’s new book-to-film adaptation Harold and the Purple Crayon, which opened in sixth place.
The kids movie is looking at a dismal $6 million opening, despite an A- CinemaScore from those who did turn up. Critics, however, panned the pic. Overseas, it earned only $3 million from 32 markets.
Neon’s thriller Longlegs continued to scare up nice business, earning $4.4 million to place seventh and finish Sunday with a domestic total of $70 million, a huge sum for an indie film these days.
