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Box Office: ‘Trap’ Chops Up $6.7 Million Opening Day, ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ Reigning Again With Massive Second Weekend
Marvel's 'Deadpool and Wolverine' will lead the box office again, as M. Night Shyamalan's 'Trap' opens and 'Harold the Purple Crayon' bombs.
Records are continuing to fall for “Deadpool,” including the one for the highest domestic gross ever for an R-rated feature, held for more than 20 years by “The Passion of the Christ” ($370 million). The new feature, which stars Josh Hartnett as a serial killer avoiding a police sting at the pop concert he’s brought his daughter to, is looking at a third place debut, in line with projections for a three-day gross north of $15 million. The family film is in danger of debuting outside of the domestic top five, behind the eighth weekend of “Inside Out 2.” At a production budget of $40 million, it’s not necessarily impossible to imagine the Zachary Levi vehicle managing to draw some families through August to stick out a more financially forgiving total gross — especially after receiving an enthusiastic response from early audiences (an “A-” grade on Cinema Score).
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