Battle at the Box Office 7/29/24
Deadpool & Wolverine shattered multiple records this past weekend, including the biggest R-rated opening of all time domestically and worldwide and the biggest opening in 2024.
Deadpool & Wolverine opened to a jaw-dropping $211 million domestically and $444.3 million worldwide. It’s the biggest R-rated opening ever, domestically and worldwide, topping the original Deadpool‘s $132 million domestic opening. It’s also the best opening ever for the Fox X-Men franchise if you include it there, and the 5th best opening for the MCU, between The Avengers and Black Panther. It’s also the best opening of all time for both Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman and also director Shawn Levy. It’s the biggest opening weekend since Spider-Man: No Way Home and the best July opening ever. It has an A CinemaScore and a 97% audience rating on RottenTomatoes, with fans gushing about the many cameos and easter eggs all weekend. It is currently tracking ahead of Inside Out 2 , and we’ll have to see if Deadpool & Wolverine can maintain the momentum or if this was a front-loaded opening weekend. It doesn’t have strong competition until potentially Alien: Romulus in a few weeks.
Twisters dropped to second place with another $34.9 million, dropping 57% from last weekend’s opening. It lost almost all its premium screens, like IMAX, to Deadpool & Wolverine, so it lost many more expensive tickets. It currently has $154.6 million domestically and $220.9 million worldwide.
Despicable Me 4 dropped to third place with $14.5 million, bringing its domestic and worldwide revenue to $291.3 million and $678 million, respectively. It’s currently seventh overall for Illumination Entertainment, behind Minions domestically and The Secret Life of Pets worldwide.
Inside Out 2 and Longlegs rounded out the top five. Both movies dropped less than 50% from last weekend, with Inside Out 2 now at $613.4 million domestically and Longlegs at $58.6 million domestically. Worldwide, Inside Out 2 is now at $1.5 billion and is the 12th biggest movie of all time.
Further down the list, The Fabulous Four opened in 8th place with just over $1 million. That’s identical to Summer Camp, a similarly older female-skewing movie that opened at the end of May. It’s nowhere near the opening of the similar 80 for Brady or the Book Club movies.
Deadpool & Wolverine also took the per-theater average for the weekend, with $50,119 in each of the 4,210 theaters it played in.
