Battle at the Box Office 8/5/24
Deadpool & Wolverine continued its domination at the box office, closing in on $400 million domestically after two weeks and passing $800 million worldwide.
Deadpool & Wolverine took in $97 million for its second domestic weekend, bringing it to $395.5 million domestically and $824 million worldwide. In its second weekend, Deadpool & Wolverine fell about $4 million behind what Inside Out 2 made in its second weekend, which was just over $101 million. Deadpool & Wolverine is still doing phenomenally well, but its R rating will mostly keep it just off from the stratospheric performance of Inside Out 2. Deadpool & Wolverine is the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time now domestically and the third biggest R-rated movie ever worldwide, behind Oppenheimer and Joker. It needs to top just over $1 billion to pass Joker, and given its pace so far, that seems like an easy win.
Twisters stayed second with another $22.8 million, only dropping 35% from last weekend. It now has $195.7 million domestically and $274.8 million worldwide.
Trap debuted in third place with $15.4 million. That puts it between his last two releases, Old and Knock at the Cabin. It’s also below the opening for his daughter Ishana Night Shyamalan’s movie, The Watchers, which opened in June. The movie got a pretty atrocious C+ CinemaScore rating, so it could nosedive quickly out of the top 10 if word of mouth is bad (it currently has 64% Audience rating on RottenTomatoes).
Despicable Me 4 and Inside Out 2 rounded out the top five. Despicable Me 4 now has $754.6 million worldwide, while Inside Out 2 has $1.55 billion worldwide. Inside Out 2 is now 12th on the all-time domestic box office list and 10th on the all-time worldwide box office list.
Harold and the Purple Crayon opened outside the top 5 in sixth place with $6 million. That is extremely soft for a movie projected to potentially open over $15 million. It made less than $2000 in each theater, which is low for a movie that opened in over 3,300 theaters. The continued performance of Inside Out 2 and Despicable Me 4 most likely stole a huge chunk of the family audience Harold was going for.
Further down the list, the faith-based The Firing Squad opened in 8th place with $1.7 million in 702 theaters, while Kneecap opened outside the top 10 in 11th place with $470,997 in 703 theaters.
The per-theater average went to Deadpool & Wolverine, which made $22,931 in each of the 4,230 theaters it played over the weekend.
