1 slot again this weekend. After ten days of release, Deadpool has grossed $235.39 million at the domestic box office and $256.5 million at worldwide box office for a global total of $491.89 million. Bringing in an older audience (76% were 25 or older), the historical drama managed just $7.3 million. Deadpool has also passed the box-office totals of other recent Marvel characters including Fantastic Four ($56.1 million), Ant-Man($180.2 million) and X-Men: Days of Future Past ($233.9 million). Its estimated gross to date is $117.1 million domestically. Either way Deadpool will definitely finish among 2016’s top 10 movies at the box office worldwide.
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Performing the worst of the new releases was Focus Features’ “Race”, which took the sixth spot behind Warner Bros.’ “How to Be Single’s” $8.2 million. Do not believe the A mark will save the film at the theater. The rest of the weekend should be more typical, with an increase today and a drop on Sunday.
Among the new openings in North America, Risen did the most, earning $11.8 million from 2,915 locations to claim one of the top debuts ever for a faith-based title after The Passion of the Christ ($83.8 million), Son of God ($25.6 million) and Heaven Is for Real ($24 million). “This certainly is a genre, with regards to faith-based films, that we’ve embraced and it’s a big part of our DNA now”.
Originally, A24 envisioned “The Witch” as a digital/VOD/multiplatform play when it acquired the micro-budgeted horror film after 2015 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Directing Award in the U.S. Dramatic category.
Coming in at No. 4 was the original horror film, The Witch.
It was looking at $10 million opening in early tracking, and now holds a 60 percent approval rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes. However, it’s CinemaScore was only C-. That’s still way less than the $342.7 million made by the previous one, but probably good enough for Fox to turn a profit on it.
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“The Witch” will be the first A24 movie to open at $1 million or more, and will be well on the path to profitability if it can gross $3 million.
