It’s no shock the Marvel’s biggest R-rated blockbuster, “Deadpool & Wolverine” is raking in the cash on its second weekend.
Deadline.com projects that, based on Friday’s numbers, it’ll manage another $94 million+. Hell, Box Office Mojo notes that it earned $18 million on THURSDAY. This weekend should put it over $400 million just in domestic ticket sales, with worldwide BO more than doubling that.
Any concerns that the characters are overexposed, that Marvel and comic book movies are gassed, that it’s the jokiest but most plodding pic in the franchise vanish. Money money money for a comic book bromance that was just meant to be.
M. Night Shyamalan’s “Trap” previewed Thursday to decent business, and while it’s overperforming other post COVID Shyamalan thrillers, his ceiling isn’t what it was in years past. Maybe just below or just over $15? Just under $16? Earlier projections based on “awareness” put it as high as $23 million.
Reviews weren’t great. Some were worse than others.
It won’t best “Twisters” and take second place this weekend. As the Universal/WB tornado blockbuster earned $35 last weekend, and is falling off about 50% per weekend, that seemed possible, but $20-22 seems more likely for that hit, which will clear $200 million by Tuesday or Wed. of next week.
The other wide opening in the wind-down-the-summer first weekend of August is “Harold and the Purple Crayon,” a laugh-starved adaptation of a 1955 children’s picture book by Crockett Johnson. Reviews won’t help this one, and with school about to start up, Sony can’t expect much from this.
Parking Zachary Levi in the title role wasn’t the smartest choice anybody ever made.
It won’t even crack the top five, but coming in sixth with $6 million will shove “Longlegs” into ($4 million) into seventh place.
UPDATED: The final tally from @boxofficepro.


