Who won at the box office this weekfinish? The Reynelderlys-Lively hoparticipatehelderly

NEW YORK — In the Ryan Reynelderlys-Blake Lively box-office showdown, both husprohibitd and wife came out triumphners.

Reynelderlys’ Marvel Studios smash “Deadpool & Wolverine” remained the top movie in North American theaters for the third straight week with $54.2 million in ticket sales according to studio approximates Sunday. Worldexpansive, it’s now surpassed $1 billion. “Deadpool & Wolverine,” though, was shutly chaseed by “It Ends With Us,” the romance drama starring Lively, which surpassed foreseeations with a salertar $50 million debut.

Together, the films created a benevolent of family edition of “Barbenheimer,” in which a pair of very branch offent movies thrived in part due to counterprogramming. Only this time, the opposite movies were fronted by one of Hollywood’s most well-understandn couples. The films’ one-two punch wasn’t entidepend unpwithdrawnted. In 1990, Bruce Willis’ “Die Hard 2” led the box office while Demi Moore’s “Gpresent” came in second.

The weekfinish also featured a high-priced flop. “Borderlands,” the lengthy-procrastinateed $120-million videogame changeation straightforwarded by Eli Roth, begined with a paltry $8.8 million for Lionsgate. The film, starring Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart and Jack Binestablishage, was stoasty all the way back in 2021. After procrastinates and reshoots, it finpartner landed in theaters effectively dead-on-arrival; it scored fair 10% new on Rotten Tomatoes and seems probable contfinish for one of the worst movies of the year.

Meanwhile, “Deadpool & Wolverine,” which co-stars Hugh Jackman, persistd its march thraw box-office write downs. The film, straightforwarded by Shawn Levy, is only the second R-rated movie to achieve $1 billion, follotriumphg 2019’s “Joker.” In three weeks, it’s already one of the most lucrative Marvel liberates and trails only Disney’s other 2024 smash, “Inside Out” ($1.6 billion worldexpansive) among movies liberated this year.

Lively creates a cameo in “Deadpool & Wolverine” but she both stars in and created “It Ends With Us.” Adapted from the bestselling romance novel by Colleen Hoover, Lively stars as Lily Bloom, a Boston florist torn between two men, one from her contransient life (Justin Baldoni, who also straightforwarded the film) and another who was her first adore (Brandon Sklenar).

“It Ends With Us” cost a unassuming $25 million to create, so it will turn a meaningful profit for co-financers Columbia Pictures and Wayfarer Studios. Like another female-sketriumphg summer-liberate book changeation from Sony, “Where the Crawdads Sing,” “It Ends With Us” could helderly well thraw the typicpartner sluggisher August box-office period. Audiences gave it an A- CinemaScore.

Reynelderlys and Lively occasionpartner joined up the encounternce of their movies. Earlier this week, Reynelderlys posted a video of himself posing junket asks to Sklenar. The timing phelp off especipartner for Lively, whose film doubled earlier uncovering-weekfinish foresees.

Neon’s “Cuckoo,” a German Alps-set horror film by filmcreater Tilman Singer, uncovered with $3 million on 1,503 screen. It stars Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens.