The summer blockbuster season notably got off to a slow start in 2024, but fortunes turned around in early June, and things have been going well ever since. In the last few weeks, Shawn Levy's Deadpool & Wolverine has hogged most of the heat, arriving in the aftermath of hits like Kelsey Mann's Inside Out 2 and Lee Isaac Chung's Twisters , but it's now, the release of Fede Álvarez's Alien: Romulus has stolen the spotlight with an impressive debut. We're only a few years away from the 50th anniversary of Ridley Scott 's Alien from 1979, but the sci-fi horror franchise seems to be just as popular as ever, as the new release starring Cailee Spaeny just had one of the franchise's best opening weekends.
Check out the full Top 10 below and join me after for analysis. TITLE WEEKEND GROSS DOMESTIC GROSS LW THTRS 1. Alien: Romulus* $41,500,000 $41,500,000 N/A 3,885 2.
Deadpool & Wolverine $29,000,000 $545,816,895 1 3,960 3. It Ends With Us $24,000,000 $97,785,000 2 3,739 4. Twisters $9,800,000 $238,439,000 3 3,483 5.
Coraline $8,391,479 $86,592,301 N/A 1,535 6. Despicable Me 4 $6,000,000 $340,402,000 5 2,788 7. Trap $3,435,000 $35,214,000 6 2,436 8.
Inside Out 2 $3,200,000 $642,194,883 7 1,850 9. Borderlands $2,350,000 $13,542,237 4 3,125 10. Stree 2* $2,184,000 $2,184,000 N/A 666 Alien: Romulus Wins The Domestic Box Office With The Second Best Opening Weekend In The History Of The Alien Franchise In 2012's Ridley Scott's Prometheus set a pretty high bar for the modern age of the Al.