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This past weekend, Deadpool vs. Wolverine retained the North American box office title. In its second weekend after its release, the film continued to soar, earning $97 million in three days, pushing its North American total to $395 million, breaking several box office records, including surpassing Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, which grossed $370.8 million, becoming the highest-grossing restricted-rated film in North America ever.

Deadpool and Wolverine poster

Although the first Deadpool's global box office exceeded The Passion of the Christ ($782 million vs. $612 million), its North American box office was fixed at $363 million, failing to surpass The Passion of the Christ. Eight years later, this record was finally broken by Deadpool vs. Wolverine. Of course, this did not take into account the change in ticket prices. In other words, in terms of the number of moviegoers, The Passion of the Christ still has a higher number.

Currently, the global box office of "Deadpool vs. Wolverine" has reached 824 million US dollars, which is the third best global box office of American restricted films. It is still a little distance away from the first-ranked "Joker" with 1.064 billion US dollars. It is estimated that it will take another week or two to surpass it.

The box office of "Deadpool and Wolverine" in North America has surpassed "Dune 2" (US$282 million) and "Despicable Me 4" (US$303 million) in succession, becoming the second best-selling film so far in 2024, second only to "Inside Out 2". The latter's total box office in North America has now exceeded US$600 million; globally, the box office of this animated film has also exceeded US$1.5 billion, becoming the tenth best-selling film in history.

Inside Out 2 poster

Last July, thanks to the healthy competition between Barbie and Oppenheimer, the total North American box office reached $1.4 billion. This year, the total North American box office in July was close to $1.2 billion, exceeding the industry's previous expectation of $1 billion. The four films that made the biggest contributions were Despicable Me 4 and Twister from Universal Pictures, and Inside Out 2 and Deadpool vs. Wolverine from Disney.

As we all know, Disney's two major box office engines, Marvel and Pixar, have been underpowered for some time due to various reasons. However, this year, this crisis seems to have disappeared. The North American box office estimates of "Inside Out 2" and "Deadpool and Wolverine" will definitely surpass "Barbie" (US$636 million), which ranked first last year, and become a strong contender for the highest North American box office in 2024.

In addition to the continued efforts of blockbuster movies, there are also new movies released this weekend. Warner Bros. released the PG-13 thriller "Trap" from M. Night Shyamalan. The film is starred by Josh Hartnett, who has been away from the screen for a long time. He plays a serial killer who takes his teenage daughter to a pop concert, only to find that it was a trap set by the police to catch him.

"Trap" poster

After being released in 3,181 theaters, "The Trap" earned $15.6 million at the box office, which is not satisfactory. It is worth mentioning that before the film was released, the distributor Warner chose not to screen it in advance for media critics, which is a rare practice. According to past precedents, film companies generally do this for two reasons: either they hope to keep the development and ending of the story as confidential as possible to attract more audiences; or there are some problems with the film itself, and they are worried that it will be bombarded by the media and completely ruin its box office prospects. However, after "The Trap" was scored on the film review collection website "Rotten Tomatoes", the freshness was only 50%, which is not acceptable, and the popcorn index was only 64%, which is not excellent.

Harold and the Purple Crayon poster

In addition, the live-action and animation hybrid film "Harold and the Purple Crayon" starring "Shazam" Zachary Levi and adapted from the children's book of the same name only earned $6 million in the opening box office after being released in 3,325 theaters, which is not as good as "Despicable Me 4" and "Inside Out 2" which have been released for a long time. The film cost $40 million to produce, but the distributor Sony Pictures may not be very optimistic about this IP with a history of nearly 70 years, and the publicity efforts invested are not very strong.