Deadpool & Wolverine Reclaims Box Office Crown as The Crow and Blink Twice Falter in Theaters

Deadpool & Wolverine Reclaims Box Office Crown as The Crow and Blink Twice Falter in Theaters

Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut opened in fourth place with a modest $7.3 million, while the horror remake limped into eighth with a disappointing $4.6 million.

Wade Wilson proves unbeatable at the summer box office, once again claiming the top spot.

Deadpool & Wolverine has reclaimed its No. 1 position in theaters, despite being five weeks into its run and experiencing a 39 percent drop in earnings. The Marvel blockbuster pulled in a domestic total of $18.3 million this weekend, according to Comscore.

The film’s domestic haul now stands at an impressive $577 million, but its success doesn’t stop there. On the global stage, Deadpool & Wolverine has crossed the billion-dollar threshold, becoming the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time with a total of $1.2 billion worldwide.

Audiences can’t seem to get enough of Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman as the unlikely duo teams up to bid farewell to the 20th Century Fox era of Marvel films while officially entering the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Meanwhile, Alien: Romulus, which had briefly dethroned the Marvel juggernaut last week, has slipped to second place. The seventh installment of the Alien franchise added $16.2 million to its domestic earnings, bringing its total to $72.6 million domestically and $225.4 million globally.

Set between the events of the 1979 classic Alien and its 1986 sequel, Aliens, Romulus follows a group of young space colonizers led by Cailee Spaeny. While scavenging a space station in search of a better life, they encounter horrors familiar to fans of the franchise.

In third place is Blake Lively’s It Ends With Us, which continues to draw in audiences despite rumors of a cast feud. The film earned $11.8 million in its third week, bringing its domestic total to $120.8 million and its global earnings to $242.6 million. It even managed to outperform the much-anticipated newcomer Blink Twice, written and directed by Zoë Kravitz, which landed in fourth place.

Kravitz’s directorial debut stars Naomi Ackie as Frida, a cocktail waitress who, tired of being overlooked, gets invited to billionaire tech mogul Slater King’s (played by Channing Tatum) private island. What begins as a seemingly endless luxurious party quickly turns into something far more sinister. Blink Twice debuted with $7.3 million domestically and an additional $6.7 million internationally, bringing its global total to $14 million.

Kravitz, the daughter of Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet, recently shared with Entertainment Weekly that she started writing the script in 2017. “It came from many years of living life as a woman in this world, in rooms with powerful people, and witnessing these power dynamics from a very young age,” Kravitz said. “It’s a reflection of what it means to be a woman in the world and the power dynamics that play out across all levels of society.”

The fifth spot at the box office went to The Forge, a faith-based Christian drama about a wayward high school graduate seeking purpose under the guidance of his single mother and a successful businessman who takes him under his wing. The film earned an estimated $6.6 million domestically.

This weekend also saw the release of the long-awaited remake of the 1994 gothic superhero film The Crow. The story follows a murdered musician who is resurrected with supernatural abilities and seeks to avenge the deaths of himself and his fiancée. Despite starring Bill Skarsgård and FKA Twigs, the reboot failed to take flight, debuting with a lackluster $4.6 million domestically and $3.8 million internationally, bringing its global total to $8.4 million and placing it in eighth place at the box office.

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