After a blip that allowed another film sell some tickets , “Deadpool & Wolverine” returned to the top of box office charts in its fifth weekend of release. Marvel’s superhero adventure towered over the (albeit anemic) competition as two newcomers, “ The Crow ” and “ Blink Twice ,” misfired in their debuts. Director Zoe Kravitz’s twisted thriller “Blink Twice” led among new releases but faltered in fourth place with $7.
3 million from 3,067 theaters. Meanwhile, Lionsgate’s R-rated reboot of “The Crow,” starring Bill Skarsgård as a murdered musician who is resurrected to avenge the deaths of himself and his fiancee, bombed with $4.6 million from 2,752 theaters to open in eighth place.
Critics were fonder of “Blink Twice” compared to “The Crow” — the former landed a 79% on Rotten Tomatoes while the latter was saddled with a 20% “rotten” score — while audiences were mixed, giving both films a “B-” grade on CinemaScore. So, it remains to be seen how word-of-mouth will affect the rest of their theatrical runs. “The Crow,” a grizzly reimagining of the graphic novel-turned-1994 film, cost $50 million to produce.
It’s the second consecutive miss for Lionsgate following this August’s “Borderlands,” which tumbled to the wasteland of 16th place with $500,000 from 1,147 venues in its third weekend of release. The $115 million-budgeted video game adaptation, starring Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart and Ariana Greenblatt, is one of the y.