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‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ beats ‘The Crow,’ ‘Blink Twice’ at box office

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Xenomorphs and Channing Tatum are no match for Wade Wilson — at least according to the summer box office.

Deadpool & Wolverine has officially reclaimed its No. 1 spot in theaters. Despite being five weeks into its run and suffering an estimated 39 percent earnings drop, the Marvel film is sitting pretty with a domestic haul of $18.3 million, reports Comscore.

While its domestic total is already a whopping $577 million, the movie is enjoying even more success on a global scale, where it has soared beyond the billion-dollar mark, claimed the title of highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time, and stuck the superhero landing with a $1.2 billion total.

Evidently, fans just can’t get enough of Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman. Deadpool & Wolverine sees the unlikely titular duo teaming up to give the 20th Century Fox–era of Marvel films a proper sendoff, while officially stepping into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 

Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool and Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in ‘Deadpool and Wolverine’.

 Jay Maidment/20th Century Studios/MARVEL


After breaking the Marvel film’s hot streak last week, Alien: Romulus has fallen to second place. The seventh installment in the Alien franchise added $16.2 million to its domestic sum, for an estimated total of $72.6 million domestically ($225.4 million globally).

Set between the events of 1979’s Alien and its 1986 sequel, Aliens, Romulus follows a group of young space colonizers led by Cailee Spaeny. While scavenging a space station in hopes of escaping their home for a better life, they stumble upon unexpected horrors that are all too familiar for longtime fans of the franchise.

Just below Romulus is Blake Lively’s It Ends With Us. Recent rumors of a feud among its cast members has not deterred moviegoers, as the film scored another $11.8 million in its third week of release, for a domestic cume of $120.8 million ($242.6 million worldwide). It even managed to beat out buzzy newcomer Blink Twice, from writer-director Zoë Kravitz, which took the fourth spot at the box office.

The High Fidelity actress’ directorial debut stars Naomi Ackie as Frida, a cocktail waitress tired of being overlooked who gets invited to billionaire tech mogul Slater King’s (Tatum) private island for what seems like a nonstop luxurious party but turns out to be much more than meets the eye. The dark thriller premiered to an estimated $7.3 million domestically and picked up an additional $6.7 million abroad, bringing its global total to $14 million.

Naomi Ackie in ‘Blink Twice,’ Bill Skarsgard in ‘The Crow’.

Carlos Somonte/Amazon MGM Studios Film; Larry Horricks for Lionsgate


Kravitz, the daughter of Lenny Kravitz and Lisa Bonet, recently told Entertainment Weekly that she began writing the script in 2017. “It came from many years of living life as a woman in this world, in rooms with powerful people in them, and witnessing these power dynamics from a very young age,” Kravitz said. “Also, I have friends and family members that are all also women in completely different situations in the world, whether they’re waitresses, or doctors, or lawyers, or students, so it’s just kind of a collection of being a woman in the world and seeing the way that things work, and seeing the way that these power dynamics play out on all different levels.”

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In fifth place is the faith-based Christian drama The Forge, which follows a wayward high school graduate searching for purpose under the guidance of his single mother and a successful businessman who takes him under his wing. The film premiered to an estimated $6.6 million in the domestic market. 

This weekend also welcomed the long-awaited remake of the 1994 gothic superhero flick The Crow. In the movie, a murdered musician who is resurrected and imbued with supernatural abilities seeks to avenge his and his fiancée’s killings. Unfortunately, not even the presence of stars Bill Skarsgård and FKA Twigs was enough to get the reboot to take flight. The new iteration of the story arrived to a meager $4.6 million domestically, claiming the eighth spot at the box office. Abroad, it picked up $3.8 million, bringing its global total to an estimated $8.4 million.

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