Deadpool & Wolverine stayed atop the box office for a third weekend, fending off a surprisingly strong challenger in It Ends With Us . The MCU sequel held onto #1 with a $54.2 million third frame, down just 44% from last weekend’s numbers.
It’s a continuing show of strength for this R-rated superhero film, which now stands at $494.3 million domestically and has crossed a new milestone with $1.029 billion worldwide.
Deadpool & Wolverine was already the highest domestic-grossing R-rated film of all time, and it’s set to become the highest worldwide gross for such in very short order. The current record belongs to Joker with $1.064 billion, a number that will be easily surpassed by next weekend.
D&W is now the sixth-highest grossing film in the MCU and does have an outside shot of passing The Avengers’ $623.4 million for the #5 spot. It’s a massive hit for Disney and Marvel against a $200 million budget.
Ryan Reynolds’ film almost got clipped by Blake Lively though, as It Ends With Us opened to a massive $50 million for #2. The romantic drama heavily outperformed its expectations, which were looking to be in the $30 million range coming into the weekend. This marks the second best-ever opening for a romantic drama, behind only Fifty Shades of Grey’s $85.
2 million start in February of 2015. It’s Lively’s best opening as a lead actor since she co-starred in Green Lantern with Reynolds to the tune of $53.2 million in 2011.
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