With $18 million, including $6.5 million from previews, the 20th Century Fox and Disney film topped the domestic chart on Friday, putting it on track for a $40 million to $42 million opening weekend. Additionally, Romulus can boast that it was the movie that finally brought Deadpool and Wolverine from Marvel Studios to second place.)
The good news for movie makers is: In addition to older men who grew up with the franchise, Romulus is successfully attracting younger men. It's also yet another win for Disney and the summer box office as a whole. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a fresh critics' rating of 82% and a CinemaScore of B+ that is close to a franchise best.
With an anticipated global opening of more than $100 million, Romulus is also doing well abroad.
Between Ridley Scott's 1979 film Alien and James Cameron's 1986 sequel, Aliens, the eighth installment in the long-running Alien franchise takes place. On Romulus, Scott is a producer.) The young colonists in the R-rated film discover a abandoned space station and the terrifying alien creature that has become the franchise's iconic star. Cailee Spaeny, David Jonsson, Archie Renaux, Isabela Merced, and Spike Fearn appear in the movie.
Romulus was originally going to debut on Disney-owned Hulu and go straight to streaming, but the studio switched to theatrical at the beginning of principal photography.
Wolverine and Deadpool are dropping to No. 2 after dominating the box office for three weekends in a row, but there is no reason to feel sorry for the irreverent Marvel and Disney film, which has broken many records to become the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time at the global box office, not adjusted for inflation.
Deadpool & Wolverine, directed by Shawn Levy and starring Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds, passed Joker to reach its latest milestone on August 15 with a global total of $1.086 billion.
The threequel is on course to acquire one more $27 million to $28 million this end of the week, which would put its homegrown count around $545 million.
Being the No. 3 is Sony and Wayfarer Studios' film adaptation of Colleen Hoover's best-selling novel It Ends With Us, which comes out in its second movie. The film starring Blake Lively is expected to make anywhere from $24 million to $26 million this weekend, giving it a domestic total of nearly $100 million as of Sunday. In its first seven days, the female-driven film made $73.7 million, which is the best performance for a non-sequel this year. Despite the ongoing social media storm regarding a rift between Lively and co-star and director Justin Baldoni, who has hired a seasoned PR crisis manager, the movie is reporting strong repeat business.
Twisters, produced by Universal, is expected to rank No. 4 and the 15th anniversary release of Focus Features' stop-motion classic Coraline, both of which are now available on premium VOD. The re-release, which made $5.8 million on Thursday and Friday alone, is being handled by Fathom Events.
The numbers will be updated early on Sunday.
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