Box Office: ‘Deadpool & Wolverine Becomes Highest-Grossing X-Men Movie Ever, ‘Trap’ Catches $15M
- Deadpool & Wolverine– $97M/$395.5M
It was another chimichanga-sized weekend for Deadpool & Wolverine, and another week of breaking records. Despite joining the rare “$100M Losers Club”, the Marvel film earned $97M making it the eighth-largest second week in history. Furthermore, the $395M domestic haul is more than both previous Deadpool movies. Worldwide it has already collected $824M and becoming the top earning X-Men movie ever.
2. Twisters-$22.6M/$195.5M
3. Trap – $15.6M
There weren’t going to be a lot of new releases against the second week of Deadpool & Wolverine, but M. Night Shyamalan is a brand unto himself. And that makes the disappointing $15.6M debut of his new thriller Trap very disappointing. That’s the second lowest opening week for Shyamalan since 2013, only surpassing last year’s Knock At the Cabin with $14M. Led by Josh Hartnett as a serial killer dad who takes his daughter to a pop concert only to learn it’s been set up as a trap to capture him, the film currently holds a 47% critic rating on Rotten Tomatoes and just 64% with audiences. Not good.
4. Despicable Me 4– $11.2M/$313.9M
5. Inside Out 2– $6.7M/$626.8M
6. Harold and the Purple Crayon– $6M
Shocking nobody, Columbia Pictures’ release of Harold and the Purple Crayon came up empty with just $6M. First of all, why they thought anyone would want to see a grown-up version of the beloved children’s book is beyond me. Even with Zachary Levi in the title role audiences just weren’t interested, and it’s clear the studio had little faith in the film. They refused to screen it for critics, who blasted it with a 28% Rotten Tomatoes score. Audiences liked it considerably more, however, giving it a strong 91%. So perhaps there will be some word-of-mouth buzz going into a second week, but there are a lot of family-friendly options right now.
7. Longlegs– $4.1M/$66.9M
8. The Firing Squad– $1.6M
9. A Quiet Place: Day One– $1.4M/$137.4M
10. Bad Boys: Ride or Die– $601K/$192.9M
