Directed by Tim Kirkby, the pic, which slipped in at ninth place, had to settle for a C+ Cinemascore.Įlsewhere, Disney and Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War ranked fourth domestically with $10.4 million, as it collected $24.3 million internationally. Paramount’s R-rated Action Point, a raucous comedy starring Johnny Knoxville as the owner of a low-rent amusement park, failed to amuse many moviegoers as it eked out just $2.3 million from 2,032 locations. It is the second-highest opening for a BH Tilt title, following The Darkness, which opened to $4.9 million in 2016. Directed by Leigh Whannel and starring Logan Marshall-Green, the R-rated action thriller, aimed at younger men, concerns a technophobe, paralyzed in a freak accident, who is “upgraded” with an experimental chip. Upgrade, the latest genre offering from Blumhouse’s BH Tilt, along with Goalpost Pictures and Automatic Entertainment, placed sixth with $4.5 million from 1,457 locations. Directed by Baltasar Kormakur and also starring Sam Clafin, the film, which was produced for $35 million and was shot mostly in Fiji, earned a B CinemaScore.
Of the weekend’s three new wide releases in North America, STX Entertainment and Lakeshore’s lost-at-sea adventure Adrift, starring Shailene Woodley, registered strongest, with the PG-13 movie opening to $11.2 million from 3,015 theaters for a third-place showing.
Deadpool 2 has now grossed $344 million internationally for a worldwide total of $598.6 million. 1 opening in Japan, it moved ahead of Solo and its $30.3 million and Avengers: Infinity War and its $24.3 million. 2 finisher at the North American box office as Ryan Reynolds’ skewed superhero tale took in an additional $23.3 million to bring its domestic haul to $254.7 million.īut the movie proved even more resilient abroad, where it grossed $41.6 million to top the international box office for the weekend. Internationally, Solo picked up $30.3 million for the three days, for an overall global weekend of nearly $60 million that brings its worldwide total to date to $264.2 million.įox’s Deadpool 2 was the weekend’s No.