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#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.
#BOXOFFICE: “TWISTERS” BLOWS BY COMPETITION
TWISTERS blows right by the competition with a smashing opening weekend, debuting with $80.5 million from 4,151 theatres for Universal Pictures/Warner Bros. It gets 78% on the Tomatometer. By comparison, its 1996 predecessor opened with $41 million from 2,808 theatres.
DESPICABLE ME 4 gets $21.5 million from 4,112 theatres and by the end of the weekend it will have grossed $257 million domestically already over three weekends.
Third is INSIDE OUT 2 with $11 million from 3,625 theatres for Disney, taking it to $594 million.
LONGLEGS is in fourth this weekend with $10.2 million, taking it to a great $43 million over two weekends for NEON and Elevation Pictures.
Rounding things off is A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE with $5.5 million, taking its run to $127 million in North American for Paramount Pictures.
#BOXOFFICE: “DESPICABLE ME 4” STILL HIGHLY LIKABLE IN SECOND WEEK
It’s another stellar week for DESPICABLE ME 4, making 2024 a Summer defined by Animated Feature blockbusters! It makes $41 million in its second week, from 4,449 theatres for Universal Pictures, a total $207.4 million grossed over two weeks.
LONGLEGS debuts huge in second with $23 million from 2,510 theatres for NEON/Elevation Pictures. It gets 87% on the Tomatometer, exceptional for a Horror. This is an opening weekend record for American distributor NEON – previous record for them was IMMACULATE, released earlier this year with $5 million in North America.
INSIDE OUT 2 continues to thrive in third with $20 million from 3,815 heatres for Disney, a tally of $571.8 million over five weeks.
Fourth is A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE with $12.1 million, taking it to $116.5 million over three weekends for Paramount Pictures.
FLY ME TO THE MOON gets fifth with $10 million in its debut, from 3,356 theatres for Sony Pictures. This Rom-Com-Dram starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, gets 67% on the Tomatometer.
#GIVEAWAY: ENTER FOR A CHANCE TO WIN PASSES TO AN ADVANCE SCREENING OF “LONGLEGS”
Elevation Pictures x Mr. Will want to give Readers in Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary a chance to win passes to an Advance Screening of LONGLEGS!
Screenings take place as follows:
VANCOUVER
Location: Scotiabank Theatre Vancouver
Date: Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024
Time: 7:00 PM
CALGARY
Location: Scotiabank Theatre Chinook
Date: Monday, July 8th, 2024
Time: 7:00 PM
TORONTO
Location: Scotiabank Theatre Toronto
Date: Monday, July 8th, 2024
Time: 7:00 PM
Synopsis: In pursuit of a serial killer, an FBI agent uncovers a series of occult clues that she must solve to end his terrifying killing spree.
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Maika Monroe and Blair Underwood.
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Elevation Pictures release LONGLEGS in theatres July 12, 2024.
(Photo/video credit: Elevation Pictures)
#FIRSTLOOK: NEW TEASER FOR “LONGLEGS”
You’ve got the teeth of the hydra upon you. LONGLEGS arrives July 12, 2024 via Elevation Pictures.
Starring Nicolas Cage, Maika Monroe, Alicia Witt
Written and Directed by Oz Perkins
(Photo/video credit: Elevation Pictures)
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