#BOXOFFICE: “DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE” LIVELY IN OPENING WEEKEND

Marvel Studios’ DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE debuts in a lively manner with a record-setting $205 million from 4,210 theatres for Marvel/Disney. It gets a great 80% on the Tomatometer from Critics, and easily becomes the highest opening ever for the Deadpool franchise, besting 2016’s first film in the series which took off with $132 million. Wolverine’s highest franchise opening was 2009’s X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE with $85 million.

In second is TWISTERS with a $36 million second weekend for Universal Pictures, a total run domestically, of $155 million.

DESCPICABLE ME 4 is in third with $14.5 million for Universal Pictures, taking it to $291 million.

INSIDE OUT 2 takes $15 million for fourth spot, bringing its run to $613.7 million for Disney.

Fifth is LONGLEGS with $6.9 million for NEON/Elevation Pictures, a three week total of $58 million. This now has become American distributor NEON‘s highest grossing film ever, surpassing Best Picture winner PARASITE‘s $53 million.