Once again, the weekend belonged to Deadpool & Wolverine. The superhero team-up again took the top spot at the box office.
This Weekend’s Box Office
As per Box Office Mojo, Deadpool & Wolverine was the number one movie at the box office. The movie brought in $15 million. Which is only 17% less than last week. The movie is now at $603 million domestically and $1.2 billion worldwide. The end of summer sees things cool off, and we’re starting to see that as things start to wind down a little.
Alien: Romulus placed second at the box office with $9.3 million and It Ends With Us kept onto third place with $7.425 million.
Reagan debuted in fourth place at the box office. The movie was a limited release but still managed to out-gross the other new release which was a much wider release, Afraid. Reagan earned $7.4 million which well-exceeded expectations for a movie without a major distributor. Unsurprisingly, the movie is not gaining positive reviews; but this isn’t preventing the right-leaning movie from being embraced by the political right as the movie has an ‘A’ grade on Cinema Score.
In fifth place was Twisters with $7.1 million.
Afraid was the only major new release at the box office this week and it placed 9th with $3.7 million. The movie was projected to make $7 million to $12 million. I predicted it would make closer to $9 million and it didn’t even make that. Bad reviews and a low Cinema Score definitely seemed to drive many away. While we now know the movie only cost $12 million to make, it’s likely not bound to be profitable at this point.
Next Weekend’s Predictions
The two new releases next weekend are The Front Room and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
The Front Room is tracking for a $3 million to $5 million opening. It’ll likely fall in that range easily enough and place fourth or fifth.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is tracking for a $95 million to $109 million opening which would place it squarely in first place. If it makes over $100 million it would also be the second movie ever in September to do so, behind the IT remake from 2017. Even if the movie fails to meet that goal, it is looking unlikely. It will easily be the number-one movie next weekend.
As always, we’ll find out next week!
For more on Movies, make sure to check back to That Hashtag Show.
