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    • 'Deadpool' tops charts yet again as 'Reagan' beats expectations on sluggish Labour Day weekend

    This image released by ShowBiz Direct shows Dennis Quaid in a scene from "Reagan." (ShowBiz Direct via AP) This image released by ShowBiz Direct shows Dennis Quaid in a scene from "Reagan." (ShowBiz Direct via AP)
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    Just like in the movies, Deadpool can鈥檛 be killed.

    鈥淒eadpool & Wolverine,鈥 one of the defining movies of the summer, ruled the box office on a weekend with quiet openings and low theater attendance as the summer movie season came to an anticlimactic close.

    For the second weekend in a row, 鈥淒eadpool & Wolverine,鈥 Marvel鈥檚 smash hit that has shattered records and become the best-selling R-rated movie of all time, topped the charts, with other holdovers from the summer following behind. After six weeks in theaters, the film made US$15.2 million domestically Friday through Sunday, and it鈥檚 expected to cross the domestic US$600 million mark following Monday鈥檚 Labor Day holiday. The Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman superhero flick will be one of only 16 titles to hit that milestone.

    鈥淩eagan,鈥 a biopic starring Dennis Quaid as the 40th U.S. president, was the only new release competitive with holdover films that opened earlier this summer. Exceeding projections, the first full-length film about former U.S. president Ronald Reagan earned US$7.4 million over the three-day weekend, with an estimated cumulative total of US$9.2 million including projections for Monday.

    Audiences have reacted to the movie positively, giving it an A CinemaScore and a 98 per cent audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. Critics have been less receptive, giving it a 19 per cent rating and deeming it rotten on the popular ratings site. It ranked No. 4 on the charts.

    This image released by ShowBiz Direct shows Dennis Quaid in a scene from "Reagan." (Ron Batzdorff/ShowBiz Direct via AP)

    The summer movie season, which runs from Memorial Day through Labor Day, proved to be full of surprises, flops and overperformers. 鈥淒eadpool,鈥 鈥淒espicable Me 4,鈥 鈥淚nside Out 2,鈥 and 鈥淭wisters鈥 brought in impressive earnings and remained on the charts for several weeks after their releases, with all four titles claiming spots in the top 10 Labor Day weekend.

    鈥淚f you were to write up a blueprint of perhaps the most unpredictable summer ever, 2024 might be just that,鈥 said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Comscore. 鈥 May gave us a challenge, but June, July and the beginning of August really delivered.鈥

    The cumulative summer box office clocked in at over US$3.6 billion domestically 鈥 a dip of 10 per cent from 2023鈥檚 US$4 billion season that could likely be attributed to the 鈥淏arbenheimer鈥 box office craze that drew crowds en masse to see 鈥淏arbie鈥 and 鈥淥ppenheimer鈥 last summer.

    The close of the season brought what Dergarabedian described as a 鈥渟tranglehold鈥 of familiar summer hits on box office rankings, with 鈥淎lien: Romulus鈥 and 鈥淚t Ends With Us鈥 rounding out the top three for the second weekend in a row. Six of the top 10 films of the weekend had been playing for three or more weeks.

    鈥淎lien: Romulus鈥 placed second, earning US$9.3 million from Friday through Sunday. The sci-fi horror film directed by Fede 脕lvarez and starring Cailee Spaeny, Isabela Merced and David Jonsson, has earned US$88.8 million domestically.

    鈥淚t Ends With Us鈥 ranked No. 3 for the third consecutive weekend, earning just over US$7.4 million with a slight edge over 鈥淩eagan.鈥 The Sony movie starring Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, who also directed, is projected to reach a domestic total of US$136 million after the weekend.

    In a surprise bump, 鈥淭wisters鈥 rounded out the top five with US$7.2 million in its seventh week in theaters. Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones star in the standalone sequel to the 1996 hit 鈥淭wister.鈥

    鈥淎fraid,鈥 a horror-thriller with an AI villain, made US$3.7 million in one of the weekend鈥檚 modest openings, with Sony projecting US$4.5 million in earnings through Monday. It came in ninth place in weekend rankings. The Blumhouse Productions and Colombia Pictures release follows John Cho and Katherine Waterston as a couple whose family is chosen to test a new AI assistant. Unsurprisingly, the technology spins out of control and threatens the lives of the family and those around them.

    Zo毛 Kravitz's directorial debut 鈥淏link Twice鈥 landed softly the last weekend of August, and brought in US$4.7 million in its second weekend.

    In another quiet opening, 鈥1992,鈥 which centers on a turbulent Los Angeles amid deadly riots during the titular year, made a meager US$1.4 million Friday through Sunday, with distributor Lionsgate projecting that total will bump up to US$1.6 million after Labor Day. The film stars Tyrese Gibson, Scott Eastwood and Ray Liotta.

    The drama is the third sluggish opening Lionsgate has seen at the unofficial end of summer. The video game adaptation 鈥淏orderlands鈥 and a remake of 鈥淭he Crow鈥 both underperformed in August.

    鈥淪lingshot,鈥 another new sci-fi release starring Laurence Fishburne and Casey Affleck, opened with $485,282 across 845 screens. Distributor Bleecker Street estimates the movie will reach $572,763 cumulatively after the holiday. 

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